ECE UG Program Advising Session for ECE Juniors/Seniors
Sheng Wei receives NSF Grant for Improving Live Virtual Reality Streaming
ECE Assistant Professor Sheng Wei is the recipient of a new NSF award for the project "Content-Based Viewport Prediction Framework for Live Virtual Reality Streaming." This is a three-year $496,085 collaborative award led by Rutgers with Northeastern University and Texas State University. Rutgers' share of this award is $214,874.
In this project, Sheng and his team will develop a new content-based viewport prediction framework to improve the bandwidth and performance in live virtual reality (VR) streaming, which predicts the user's viewport through a fusion of tracking the moving objects in the video, extracting the video semantics, and modeling the user's viewport of interest. VR video streaming has been gaining popularity recently with the rapid adoption of mobile head mounted display (HMD) devices in the consumer video market. As the cost for the immersive experience drops, VR video streaming introduces new bandwidth and performance challenges, especially in live streaming, due to the delivery of 360-degree views. This project consists of three research thrusts. First, it develops a content-based viewport prediction framework for live VR streaming by tracking the motions and semantics of the objects. Second, it employs hardware and software techniques to facilitate real-time execution and scale the viewport prediction mechanism to a large number of users. Third, it develops evaluation frameworks to verify the functionality, performance, and scalability of the approach. The project uniquely considers the correlation between video content and user behavior, which leverages the deterministic nature of the former to conquer the randomness of the latter. With the rapidly increasing popularity of VR systems in domain-specific immersive environments, the project will benefit several VR-related fields of studies with significant bandwidth savings and performance improvements, such as VR-based live broadcast, healthcare, and scientific visualization. Moreover, the interdisciplinary nature of the project will enhance the education and recruitment of underrepresented minorities in several science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
The project details can be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1910085&HistoricalAwards=false
Congratulations, Sheng!
Yicheng Lu named 2019 School of Engineering Faculty of the Year
Dean Thomas Farris has just announced that Distinguished Professor Yicheng Lu will receive the 2019 School of Engineering (SoE) Faculty of the Year Award. This award recognizes exceptional contributions of a SoE faculty member to the School of Engineering, the University, the engineering profession, the scientific community and/or society at large. Yicheng will be recognized with this award at a SoE Faculty Recognition Event on September 19 at 4 pm in Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering, where he will receive a plaque and a monetary award in the amount of $5,000 to be used to support his continued research and scholarship activities.
This a well deserved recognition for Yicheng's continued excellence in his various roles and the prominence it brings to ECE. Congratulations Yicheng!
ECE TA Meeting
All students who hold a TA appointment for any portion of 2019-2020 are required to attend this meeting. Attendance will be taken.
Meeting with Dr. Narayan Mandayam, ECE Dept. Chair; Dr. Zoran Gajic, Graduate Director; and ECE TA Advisory Committee.
ECE New Grad Student Orientation
All incoming ECE Graduate students are invited to attend this orientation for a program overview, helpful information, and faculty research presentations.
ECE Graduate Director Advising: Incoming PhD
All incoming PhD students are invited to attend this academic advising session with Dr. Gajic. He will assist you in planning your program schedule.
ECE Graduate Director Advising: Incoming MS
All incoming MS students are invited to attend this academic advising session with Dr. Gajic, Graduate Program Director. He will assist you in planning your program schedule.
ECE Graduate Director Advising: Incoming 3+2
All incoming 3+2 students are invited to attend this academic advising session with Dr. Gajic, Graduate Program Director. He will assist you in planning your program schedule.
Grigore Burdea wins Best Paper Award at the 2019 International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation
Professor Grigore Burdea is the lead author of the paper titled "Novel Therapeutic Game Controller for Telerehabilitation of Spastic Hands: Two Case Studies" that has won the best paper award at the 13th International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR) that was held in Tel Aviv, Israel in July 2019. The goal of the ICVR conference series is to provide an overview of applied and clinical research on technologies in the field of virtual rehabilitation. In this paper, Professor Burdea and his coauthors design a novel BrightBrainer Grasp (BBG) controller that can overcome challenges faced in post-stroke rehabilitation due to hand spasticity. The custom controller measures power grasp, finger extension, wrist position and orientation, as well as 3D hand position. It is designed to minimize friction when used by those with no gravity bearing. The paper presents a detailed description of the BBG controllers and their interaction with the BrightBrainer™ gaming system, including two successful case studies.
Congratulations on this achievement, Greg!
Rutgers Career & Internship Mega Fair
CAREER & INTERNSHIP MEGA FAIR
Join us at one of the largest and most diverse recruiting opportunities in the nation. Our first THREE DAY fair! An anticipated group of nearly 300 employers (different employers each day) will be available to network with candidates to discuss full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities from a wide variety of fields. This event is only open to Rutgers University (New Brunswick, Camden, Newark, and RBHS) students and alumni from all academic disciplines.
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