Prof. Kakadiaris, Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor, and Prof. Shah, Assistant Professor, in collaboration with Prof. Jejelowo (Texas Southern
University) received an ARP award of $149,944 for two years for their proposal "Video-Based Surveillance in Distributed Environments". In
addition, Prof. Kakadiaris in collaboration with Prof. Loveland (UT Health Science Center at Houston) received an ARP award of $149,751 for
two years for their proposal "Facial Expression Analysis Using 6D Data: Application to Autism". The Texas ARP 2007 program funded 121 proposals
out of a total of 1952 proposal submissions. The funding rate was about 6%. Nine awards were made in the computer science area and similarly
nine awards were made in the Engineering area.
