News

Congratulations to Haroon Idrees, Nolan Warner, and Mubarak Shah for having their paper “Tracking in dense crowds using prominence and neighborhood motion concurrence” (Image and Vision Computing, volume 32 (2014), pp. 14-26) featured as a selected paper this week on the main SIGGRAPH website’s front page (http://www.siggraph.org/). This website attracts about 50,000 visitors per month.

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua for receiving $40,000.00 in new funding from NASA Kennedy Space Center for a project titled “A Live Video Computing Framework for smart Space Launch Management Systems”.

Congratulations to Dr. Haiyan (Nancy) Hu for receiving $134,577 in additional funding on her NSF project titled: “CAREER: A Computational Framework to Study Epigenetic Regulation”.

The CCDC Team competed in the virtual qualification round of the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past Saturday.

Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev for receiving an in-house award of $7500 for a project titled “MX-Boost: An Infrastructure for Exascale Performance Analysis and Optimization”.

Congratulations to Dr. Damian Dechev for receiving a UCF In-House Award of $7,500 for his project titled “MX-Boost: An Infrastructure for Exascale Performance Analysis and Optimization.”

Congratulations to the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team for being featured on FOX News this past Thursday, February 20th, 2014.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving $41,500 from the Google Research Awards program for a project titled “Human Action Recognition in Untrimmed Realistic Videos”.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola and his collaborators: the college has approved a new Research Cluster of Excellence called “Interactive Systems and User Experience”.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving the 2014 College Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Hughes will receive this award at the UCF Founder’s Day Honors Convocation, and will also be entered into the university-wide competition.