Rama Chellappa

Research Grants and Contracts

  1. NSF, Principal Investigator, Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Stationary Random Fields, 05/01/82 - 04/31/84, $48,000. (Research Initiation Grant)
  2. USC, Principal Investigator, Algorithms for Image Classification, 07/01/83 - 06/31/84, $19,535.
  3. NSF, Co-Principal Investigator, Estimation of Intramuscular Potentials Using Surface EMG Signal Analysis, 07/01/84 - 06/30/87, $261,460. (G.A. Bekey, Principal Investigator)
  4. Hughes Aircraft Company, Principal Investigator, Analysis of Segmentation Errors Due to Spatial Sampling, 10/01/84 - 02/31/85, $10,000.
  5. Joint Services Electronics Program, Senior Investigator, Research in Computer Vision, 04/01/85 - 03/31/88, $160,305. (W.H. Steier, Principal Investigator)
  6. NSF, PRESIDENTIAL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD, Principal Investigator Research in Signal Processing, 07/01/85 - 08/31/90, $312,500.
  7. IBM, AT&T, Hughes Aircraft Company, Principal Investigator, Matching Fund for Presidential Young investigator Award, 07/01/85-06/31/87, $150,000.
  8. NSF, Principal Investigator, Modern 2-D Spectral Estimation with Applications in Image Processing, 06/01/85 - 11/30/87, $20,274.
  9. ONR, Principal Investigator,  Modern High Resolution Two-Dimensional Spectral Estimation, 06/01/86 - 12/31/88, $146,857
  10. AFOSR, Co-Principal Investigator, Optical Symbolic Computing Tasks, 06/01/86 - 05/31/89, $469,626, with B.K. Jenkins (Principal Investigator) and A.A. Sawchuk.
  11. AFOSR, Principal Investigator, Research Instrumentation for Computer Vision, Image Understanding, and Optical Symbolic Computing, $150,666, with A.A. Sawchuk.
  12. TRW/USC, Principal Investigator, Research in 3-D Motion Estimation, 10/01/86-09/30/87, $15,856.
  13. AFOSR/URI, Senior Investigator, Center for Integration of Optical Computing, 10/01/86 - 09/30/89, $175,000. (W.H. Steier and A.A. Sawchuk, Principal Investigators), Total Grant: $1,900,900.
  14. SUN Microsystems, Principal Investigator, Matching Equipment Grant for Presidential Young Investigator Award, $17,990.
  15. NSF, Principal Investigator, Estimation of Kinematics and Structure of a 3-D Rigid Object from a Sequence of Noisy Images, 01/01/88 - 12/31/89, $177,915.
  16. Joint Services Electronics Program, Senior Investigator, SAR Image Understanding, 04/01/88 - 03/31/91, $200,000. (W.H. Steier, Principal Investigator)
  17. Powell Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator, Equipment Proposal for AI Workstation, 01/01/88 - 05/31/88, $20,000, (With A.A. Sawchuk, Principal Investigator)
  18. Hughes Aircraft Company, Principal Investigator, Research in Computer Vision, 06/01/88-05/31/90, $25,000.
  19. ONR, Principal Investigator, Robust Methods for Planar Array Processing, 01/01//89 - 12/31/91, $191,270.
  20. AFOSR/URI, Senior Investigator, Center for the Integration of Optical Computing, 10/01/89 - 09/30/92, $280,000, (W.H. Steier and A.A. Sawchuk, Principal Investigators), Total Grant: $3,000,000.
  21. AT &T, Principal Investigator, Image Sequence Analysis, 07/01/88-06/30/90, $143,000.
  22. NSF, Senior Investigator, VISCOM: A Multiprocessor System for Image‑Vision processing and Neural Network Computing, 07/01/89-06/30/90, $500,000 (K. Hwang, Principal Investigator).
  23. NSF, Co-Principal Investigator, Workshop on Theory and Applications of Markov Random Fields for Signal and Image Processing, and Computer Vision, 04/01/89 - 03/31/90, $15,000. (with A. K Jain, Principal Investigator)
  24. NSF, Principal Investigator, Representation and Recovery of Discontinuities in some Image Processing Problems, 10/01/91 - 03/31/93, $132,169.
  25. AFOSR, Principal Investigator, Segmentation of Multi-frequency, Multi-look and Multi-polarimetric SAR Data, 02/01/92 - 01/31/95, $193,000.
  26. ARPA, Principal Investigator, Site-Model-Based Image Registration and Change Detection, 07/01/92 - 06/30/95, $750,000 with L.S. Davis and A. Rosenfeld.
  27. ARPA, Co-Principal Investigator, Integrated Active Vision for UGV RSTA, 07/01/93 - 06/30/96, $335,000, with Y. Aloimonos, L.S. Davis (Principal Investigator) and A. Rosenfeld.
  28. ARPA, Co-Principal Investigator, Advanced Automatic Target Recognition, 07/15/93 - 01/14/95, $948,622 with L.S. Davis and A. Rosenfeld. (Principal Investigator)
  29. NSF, Co-Principal Investigator, High Performance Computing for Land Cover Dynamics, 10/01/93-09/30/98. $3,000,000 with L. S. Davis, (Principal Investigator) J. Townsend, J.Ja’Ja, N. Roussopoulos, J. Saltz and H. Samet.
  30. ARPA, Principal Investigator, Multi-resolution Processing and Image Understanding for Automatic Target Detection /Recognition identification, 03/01/95 - 05/14/96, $125,000. (subcontract from McDonnell-Douglas Corporation)
  31. ARPA/ONR, Co-Principal Investigator, Appearance Based Vision for Complex Environments, 04/01/95-03/31/00, $2,650,000, with L.S. Davis and A. Rosenfeld. (Principal Investigator)
  32. ARPA, Principal Investigator, SAR/IR Registration, 02/15/95-07/15/95, $35,000 (subcontract from HNC, Inc)
  33. AFSOR, Principal Investigator, Multi-sensor Fusion 10/01/95-05/31/96, $ 35,000 (subcontract from LNK corporation, Inc.)
  34. ARL, Principal Investigator, Advanced sensors consortium, $1,850,000, 02/01/1996-05/31/2001 with L.S. Davis and A. Rosenfeld.
  35. ARO/AASERT, Principal Investigator, Model Supported Positioning of SAR Images, 07/01/96-06/30/99, $104,000.
  36. AFOSR/AASERT, Principal Investigator, Non-cooperative Target Identification, 07/01/96-06/30/99, $104,000
  37. DARPA, Principal Investigator, Context-Based Temporal Reasoning and Analysis of Vehicular Activities from SAR-EO Images, 01/01/97-02/28/99 $600,000 with L.S. Davis and A. Rosenfeld.
  38. DARPA, Principal Investigator, Model-Based Recognition of Targets in Foliage Penetrating SAR Images, 03/01/97-09/30/00, $ 490,000 Subcontractor, DEMACO, Inc.
  39. DARPA, Principal Investigator, Advanced Automatic Target Recognition, 05/01/97-01/31/98, $91,000 with L.S. Davis and A. Rosenfeld.
  40. DARPA, Principal Investigator, Integrated FOA and Indexing, 02/01/97-01/31/98, $ 70,000, (subcontract from SAIC, as part of MSTAR program)
  41. DARPA, Principal Investigator, Activity Monitoring System for Airborne Visual Surveillance, 07/01/98-12/31/00, $ 900,000 (subcontract from SRI International) with L.S. Davis, Y. Aloimonos and A. Rosenfeld.
  42. NIJ, Co-Principal Investigator, Real-time Computer Surveillance for Crime Detection, $ 353,870, 09/01/99 - 06/30/01, with L.S. Davis (Principal Investigator)
  43. DARPA, Principal Investigator, Human Identification at a Distance, $2,600,000, 08/15/00-12/31/03, with L.S. Davis, Y. Aloimonos and A. Rosenfeld.
  44. ARDA/VACE, Co-Principal Investigator, Video Processing and Content Extraction, $ 3, 100,000, 08/01/2000 – 07/31/2007 with Y. Aloimonos, D. Jacobs, D. Doermann and L.S. Davis (Principal Investigator).
  45. ONR, Principal Investigator, Stochastic Approaches for Tracking, $ 300,000, 01/01/01-12/31/03.
  46. DARPA, Principal Investigator, Human Activity Inference, $ 369,000, 08/01/02-07/31/03, with L.S. Davis.
  47. ARL, Principal Investigator, Collaborative Technology Alliance on Advanced Sensors,       $ 2,100,000, 07/01/01 –06/30/06, with K.J.R. Liu and S. Bhattacharya.
  48. ARL, Principal Investigator, Collaborative Technology Alliance on Advanced Decision Architectures, $963,000, 07/01/01-06/30/04, with V. Subrahmanian.
  49. ARL, Co-Principal Investigator, Collaborative Technology Alliance on Robotics, $1,170,000, 07/01/01 – 06/30/03, with L.S. Davis (Principal Investigator)
  50. NSF, Principal Investigator, Multi-camera Based Tracking of Humans, $ 150,000, 09/01/02 – 08/31/04, with L.S. Davis.
  51. NSF, Principal Investigator, ITR:  New Technology for Capture, Analysis and Visualization of Human Movement Using Distributed Cameras, $ 2,560,000 09/15/03-09/14/08, with T. Andriacchi (Stanford) and C. Bregler (NYU).
  52. NSF, Co-Principal Investigator, ITR:  Distributed Smart Cameras:  Algorithms, Architectures and Synthesis, 09/30/03 -  09/29/08, $ 1,650, 000 with S. Bhattacharya (Principal Investigator) and W. Wolf (Princeton).
  53. DARPA/SRI, Co-Principal Investigator, Video Verification and Identification 12/01/03-11/30/05, $800,000 with Y. Aloimonos and L.S. Davis (Principal Investigator). 
  54. DARPA/SAIC, Principal Investigator, Video Verification and Identification, 12/15/03-12/14/05, $300,000.
  55. ARO, MURI on The Science of Land Based Target Signatures, (subcontract from GTRI), Principal Investigator, 08/15/2002 – 08/19/2007, $750,000.
  56. ARO/MURI on Micro Air Vehicles, Senior Investigator, 07/01/04 – 06/30/07, $150,000, I. Chopra (Principal Investigator).
  57. ARDA/VACE, Phase11, Video Processing and Content Extraction, Co-Principal Investigator, $1,700,000, 06/01/2004-05/31/2006, with Y. Aloimonos, D. Doermann and L.S. Davis (Principal Investigator).
  58. HSARPA/ONR, Co-Principal Investigator, Detection of Unattended Packages, 06/01/2005 – 05/31/2007, $1,000,000, with L.S. Davis (Principal  Investigator). Siemens Corporate Research, NJ is a subcontractor.
  59. HSARPA/UNR, Co-Principal Investigator, Persistent Tracking, 08/01/05-07/31/07, $300,000, with L.S. Davis (Principal Investigator). Subcontract from Honeywell.
  60. DoD, Co-Principal Investigator, Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery, 10/01/04-09/30/05, $ 1,500,000 with V. Subrahmanian  (Principal Investigator).
  61. DIA/MASINT, Principal Investigator, Distributed Tracking, 09/01/05 – 05/31/06, $ 57, 000. with A. Srivastava.
  62. UNISYS, Principal Investigator, Illumination-invariant Face Recognition, 07/01/06 – 08/14/07, $ 66, 000.
  63. DARPA, Co-Principal Investigator, Flexiview, 08/15/07 – 12/31/07, $ 483, 000, with L.S. Davis and A, Varshney (Principal Investigator)
  64. NIST, Principal Investigator, Lane Detection in Day and Night Video, 08/01/07-07/31/08, $ 100, 000.
  65. UNISYS, Principal Investigator, 3D Aging of Faces, 08/15/2007 – 08/14/08, $ 50, 000.
  66. NSP/SRI, Subcontractor, Video – based Face Recognition, 12/31/07 – 06/30/08, $ 35, 000.
  67. ONR, MURI, Principal Investigator, Remote Biometrics for Maritime Domains, 06/01/08 – 05/31/11, $ 4, 500, 000 ( Two options years totaling $ 3, 000, 000 are possible)

 
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