Funding and Grants Approved

Public Funding Institutes

Peder Sather Grant, (June 2020)

Granted by the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study for two year in the amount of 20,000 USD. The project which was a collaboration with Professor Bruno Olshausen at University California Berkeley is entitled: ``BERKELEY/NTNU A Large-Scale Subjective Dataset for Images and Videos Quality Assessment''.

Regional Qualication Project, (October 2019)

Granted by the Regional Research Fund, Innlandet, Norway for one year in the amount of 1,000,000 NOK (approx. 100,000 Euros). The project is entitled: “FISHTRACKING: Analysis of fish behavior”.

FRIPRO (Independent Projects) mobility grant for young researchers fellowship, (December 2015)

Granted by the Research council of Norway for three years in the amount of 3,301,000 NOK (approx. 340,000 Euros). The project is entitled: “CCSF-Quality: Dening new Chromatic Contrast Sensitivity Functions for improved quality assessment and quality enhancement”.

FITweltweit Postdoc fellowship, (October 2015)

Granted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a one year visit to the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley, CA, USA in the amount of $105,000. The project was entitled: “From photos to paintings and caricatures! A psychological, psychophysical, imaging, and computational investigation into face recognition".

Industrial Institutes

NVIDIA GPU Grant, (November 2016)

Granted a Titan X Pascal graphic card donated by the NVIDIA Corporation within their NVIDIA GPU Grant Program.