Equipment Acquisition to Enhance IMSC Education and Research Programs

采购设备以加强 IMSC 教育和研究项目

• 批准号: 9908046
• 负责人: Chrysostomos Nikias
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-15 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9908046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Acquisition; Enhance; IMSC; Education

This award provides funding in partial support of acquisition of equipment to upgrade the network infrastructure of the Integrated Media Systems Engineering Research Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California from the existing local area network to a wide area network. The equipment is being used to establish a new telepresence laboratory, improve the performance and lower the cost of realistic, textured, animated rendering and avatar data extraction for telepresence applications to support multimedia research. The equipment includes ATM Network hardware upgrades and connections to the Next Generation Internet, real-time encoders/decoders for full D1-rate video compression, high performance graphics workstations, network attached storage, wireless ultra-wideband impulse radio transceivers, and 3D immersive display an eye human-computer interface devices. The facilities will enable more than 25 faculty and staff and more than 100 students to attack the hardware and software barriers that limit the creation, dissemination, and access to multimedia information. The equipment will support multidisciplinary research and education in the process of solving cutting-edge systems-level problems that require final solution assessment by design, simulation, and implementation.

该奖项为购买设备提供部分支持，以将南加州大学综合媒体系统工程研究中心(IMSC)的网络基础设施从现有的局域网升级到广域网。该设备正被用于建立一个新的网真实验室，提高性能并降低成本，为网真应用程序提供逼真、有质感的动画渲染和化身数据提取，以支持多媒体研究。这些设备包括ATM网络硬件升级和与下一代互联网的连接、用于全D1率视频压缩的实时编解码器、高性能图形工作站、网络附加存储、无线超宽带脉冲无线电收发机和3D沉浸式显示人机界面设备。这些设施将使超过25名教职员工和100多名学生能够攻击限制多媒体信息创建、传播和访问的硬件和软件障碍。该设备将在解决尖端系统级问题的过程中支持多学科研究和教育，这些问题需要通过设计、模拟和实施进行最终解决方案评估。