Equipment to Support MURI Program on Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visual Mechanisms at Multiple Spatial and Temporal
Abstract
Project Summary/Abstract: This DURIP proposal is intended to obtain funds to purchase computer equipment to support a current MURI award, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visual Mechanisms at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales. The overarching goal of the MURI award is to obtain a better understanding of the way that bottom-up stimulus-driven visual mechanisms interact with and are facilitated by top-down intentional and attentional mechanisms in the human brain, and to use this information to improve the performance of computer vision systems. My component of the MURI award focuses on large-scale computational modeling of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, using computational methods and algorithms that have been developed in my laboratory over the past 10 years. This is a classical big data problem. A single brain consists of 100,000 voxels, each of which must be modeled separately, and construction of empirical priors may require pre-processing thousands of hours of video. This all requires an enormous number of separate modeling operations, a huge amount of storage, and highbandwidth transfers of information across the nodes of the compute cluster. We seek funds to purchase additional computer equipment to support this effort. I request that this proposal be routed for consideration and evaluation to Dr. Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Program Officer in the Mathematics, Computer & Information Research Division, Office of Naval Research.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512861
Entities
People
- Jack L. Gallant
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California Regents