| NSF Org: |
IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 30, 2008 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | June 2, 2009 |
| Award Number: | 0812235 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Jie Yang
jyang@nsf.gov (703)292-4768 IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2008 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2012 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $337,002.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $353,002.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2009 = $16,000.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
9500 GILMAN DR LA JOLLA CA US 92093-0021 (858)534-4896 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
9500 GILMAN DR LA JOLLA CA US 92093-0021 |
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Performance Congressional District: |
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| NSF Program(s): | Robust Intelligence |
| Primary Program Source: |
01000910DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
Object detection cascades are one of the most significant recent developments in computer vision. By enabling real-time object detection, they are a potentially disruptive technology, which is already making a commercial impact in industries as diverse as digital photography, automotive, surveillance, personal identification, and traffic safety, among others. However, this disruptive potential is currently stifled by the substantial complexity of training detector cascades. In practice, this complexity limits the application of the cascaded architecture to a small set of domains (most notably face detection) which have been heavily researched by the academic community and for which detectors are publicly available. This project aims to eliminate the complexity hurdle, by laying the theoretical and algorithmic foundations for the fully-automated, low-complexity, design of optimal detection cascades, which guarantee high detection-rate while minimizing false-positive rate and detection complexity. In particular, the project addresses major current roadblocks in architecture design, detector design, and training complexity, through novel contributions in cost sensitive boosting, weak learners, and optimal cascade design algorithms. All contributions will be evaluated in the context of an effort to deploy real-time animal detectors in some of the most popular wild-life attractions of San Diego. This also provides an exciting and unusual opportunity for the involvement of undergraduates in research.
More information on the project can be found at http://www.svcl.ucsd.edu
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