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EEG-to-text decoding
Brain signal decoding supported by secure fog computing.
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Visual intelligence
POVQA
Efficient video question answering from the student faculty team.
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Multimodal evaluation
Redemption Score
Assessing image captions across several complementary signals.
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Lab news
Dr. Nick Rahimi Receives 2026 USM Applied Research Award
Dr. Nick Rahimi has received the 2026 Applied Research Award from the USM Office of the Provost for his success in translating basic research into practical scientific and social solutions.
Read more ↗Dr. Nick Rahimi Appointed Associate Director for Cybersecurity & AI Initiatives
Dr. Nick Rahimi has been named the Associate Director for Cybersecurity & AI Initiatives at the school of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering.
Redemption Score accepted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Ashim Dahal, Ankit Ghimire, Saydul Akbar Murad, and Nick Rahimi developed a multimodal framework for evaluating image captions.
Read more ↗POVQA presented at CVPR Workshops
The team presented a rationale-guided approach to video question answering at the CVPR Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning workshop.
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