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Project Description
Augmented Cognition (AugCog) The AugCog project aims to create a closed loop brain-computer interface system that manipulates the interface between a human operator and the …
Automated Scoring of the RO Complex Figure Test (ROCF) The ROCF test is one of the standardized measures that is used for the clinical diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The …
Bayesian Integrated Vision, Estimation, and Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Bayesian Estimation) This is a joint project with Xubo Song, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at OGI. Subtopics include: Vision-based feature …
Closed-Loop Control to Optimize Perfusion for Sepsis (Closed-Loop Control) This is a collaborative project with James McNames, Miles Ellenby, Charles Phillips, and Alan Graham. Sepsis is defined as the systemic host …
Diagnostic Markers for Childhood Apraxia Speech (Apraxia Markers) This NIH-supported project focuses on automated methods for assessment of Childhood Apraxia of Speech. This disorder is a highly controversial …
Discriminative Syntactic Language Modeling: Automatic Feature Selection and Efficient Annotation (Syntactic Language) The focus of this proposal is on the effective use of parser-derived and tagger-derived features within discriminative approaches to language …
Expressive and Receptive Prosody in Autism (Prosody in Autism) This NIH-supported project, led by Jan van Santen, Lois Black, and Peter Heeman, and joint with Rhea Paul and Fred Volkmar at Yale's Child Study …
Four-Dimensional Imaging and Analysis for the Study of Immune Responses (Four-Dim. Imaging) The recent development of video-microcropy technology for imaging immune responses within the eye is revolutionizing the way researchers are …
Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests (Forest) Dr. Timothy Tolle of the USDA Forest Service, Region 6, serves as Project Co-Director for this project where we are exploring ways to help natural …
Heart Function Characterization Through Combining Acoustic and Electrocardiogram Signals (Heart Function) This is a collaborative project with: Inovise Medical Inc., Deniz Erdogmous - Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical …
Machine Learning Approaches to Articulatory Inversion (Articulatory Inver.) Articulatory inversion is the problem of recovering the sequence of vocal tract shapes that produce a given acoustic utterance. Articulatory …
Making Dysarthric Speech Intelligible This project [joint with Melanie Fried-Oken at the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center at the Oregon Health & Science University] will …
Modeling in coastal oceanography Many processes of interest in coastal oceanography are challenging to simulate. Particular difficulties exist when simulations are required near …
Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts (NIA) The NIA project aims to exploit the superior target detection capabilities of the visual system of a trained intelligence analysts for robust and …
Novel Computerized Behavioral Assessment Methods for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD Assessment) This internally funded exploratory project, conducted by Lois Black, Holly Jimison (Biomedical Engineering Department and Department of Medical …
Objective Methods for Predicting and Optimizing Synthetic Speech Quality (Synth. Speech Qual.) The project focuses on how humans perceive acoustic discontinuities in speech. Current text-to-speech synthesis ("TTS") technology operates by …
Processing and Analysis of QCT Prostate Images for Study of Prostate Diseases (QCT) A pilot study for the analysis and characterization of prostate Quantitative Computer Tomography (QCT) images. Researchers will develop …
Prosody Generation for Child Oriented Speech Synthesis (Prosody Generation) This project [joint with Alan Black at Carnegie Mellon University and Richard Sproat at AT&T Research] focuses on innovative algorithms for …
Real-time Noninvasive Tracking of Lung Tumors for Radiation Therapy (Tumor Tracking) Our goal is to develop noninvasive techniques for accurate and real-time tracking of lung tumors down to millimeter accuracy for efficient and …
Robust Information Filtering Techniques for Static and Dynamic State (State Estimation) This project aims to improve upon the recent advances in state estimation techniques for nonlinear dynamical systems. These include the unscented …
Small Footprint Speech Synthesis (Small Footprint) This NSF Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project is led by Alexander Kain at Biospeech Inc., a CSLU startup, and Jan van Santen The …