Industry Grant

Secured a gift fund of $50,000 from HERE, a Nokia company, and lead a research collaboration with Dr. Junzhou Huang from University of Texas at Arlington on sensor data mining and machine learning, 2014

Secured a research contract of 100,000 Euro from Nokia and lead a research collaboration with Dr. Junzhou Huang from University of Texas at Arlington on computer vision and image processing, 2014

Secured a research contract of 10,000 Euro per deliverable from Nokia and lead a research collaboration with Dr. Ruigang Yang from University of Kentucky on 3D computer vision, 2014

Secured a research contract of 100,000 Euro from Nokia and lead a research collaboration with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from University of California at Los Angles on computer vision, 2014

Secured a gift of $10,000 from Nokia and structured collaboration with Interprofessional Projects Program (IPRO) from Illinois Institute of Technology on an IPRO course development, 2013

Secured a gift of $10,000 from Nokia and structured collaboration with Interprofessional Projects Program (IPRO) from Illinois Institute of Technology on an IPRO course development, 2012

Secured a research contract of $38,000 from Nokia and led a research collaboration with Dr. Gady Agam from Illinois Institute of Technology on Building Completion, 2012

Secured a gift fund of $15,000 from Nokia and led a research collaboration with Dr. Gady Agam from Illinois Institute of Technology on 3D Campus Mapping, 2011

Secured and structured a research contract of $10,000 with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from University of California at Los Angeles on building and text extraction from street view imagery, 2011

Secured and structured a research contract of $12,000 with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from University of California at Los Angeles on face and license plate extraction from street view imagery, 2010

Secured and structured a research contract of $100,000 with Dr. Song-Chun Zhu from University of California at Los Angeles on road sign extraction from street view imagery, 2010

Secured a gift fund of over $60,000 from NAVTEQ and led a research collaboration with Dr. Takeo Kanade from Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. James Wang from Penn State University on Street View Scene Understanding, 2008

Secured a gift fund of over $50,000 from NAVTEQ and led a research collaboration with Dr. Patrick Flynn from University of Notre Dame on 3D LIDAR Mapping, 2008.

 

Federal Grant Applications

NIST Forensic Science Center of Excellence Program, 2014. Xin was a PI on behalf of Northwestern University collaborating with other colleagues from Penn State University.

NSF III: Large: Collaborative Research: Dynamic Exploration of Evolving Semantics Using Multimodal Heterogeneous Sensors, 2014. Xin was a co-PI on behalf of Northwestern University collaborating with other colleagues from NWU, Rutgers and NCSU.

Adaptive and collaborative 3D reconstruction, recognition, and tracking of objects and activities using a network of sensors, a white paper for Computational Methods for Decision Making 2011. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Notre Dame.

Guidelines for the Use of Mobile LIDAR in Transportation Applications, a proposal to TRB NCHRP solicitation 2010. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with Dynasty Group, Inc.

Geo-referenced 3D Indoor Mapping, a proposal to NIJ solicitation 2010. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with U. of Notre Dame.

3D Geo-reference Mapping, a proposal to TSWG BAA 2009. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with U. of Notre Dame.

A Volumetric Approach to LIDAR Denoising and Compression, a proposal to NURI 2009. Xin was a PI on behalf of NAVTEQ in collaboration with U. of Wisconsin-Madison.