UCF Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Establish Local Resiliency Hubs The $50,000 award allows the university’s team to develop the project with government and community partners.
UCF Computer Vision Team Receives Prestigious Computer Vision Award for Action Recognition Dataset The researchers behind UCF-101, a challenging action recognition dataset, are being awarded for their impressive collection of 13,320 clips across 101 action categories. The dataset has been cited over 4,000 times since its creation.
UCF Researchers Present at Top International Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition Conference Four UCF faculty and 32 doctoral students attended the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in New Orleans this summer.
Recent UCF Graduates Have Accepted Tenure-track Positions at Top Universities A tenure-track position is the unicorn of academia, but students are finding jobs after earning their doctorate degrees at UCF and going onto places like NC State, Notre Dame, and the University of Toronto.
Engineering Graduate Fellows Get Hands-on Experience with National Industry Leaders Seven UCF graduate students will receive tuition scholarships, living stipends and paid internships funded through a national program.
Another Record Year for UCF — 8 NSF CAREER Award Winners The recipients are engineers who work with interdisciplinary teams to solve tech and health problems.
NSF Awards UCF $2.9 Million to Train Next Generation of Cybersecurity Defenders The award comes at a time when cyber threats are becoming more prevalent, from stolen customer information to the hacking of government data and more recently, breaching the security of a Florida water plant.
UCF Project Will Study Smart Tech to Improve Risk Communication in Central Florida The NSF-funded, $1.2 million project also involves developing community partnerships and building a regional data-sharing platform to help with emergency responses.
AI Can Detect COVID-19 in the Lungs Like a Virtual Physician, New Study Shows The new UCF co-developed algorithm can accurately identify COVID-19 cases, as well as distinguish them from influenza.
UCF Team Wins Worldwide Competition in Computer Vision The competition included teams from IBM, MIT and Carnegie Mellon University.