SCS Faculty: Honda Initiation Grant
–The Honda Initiation Grant was inaugurated in 1997 to reach out to the vast talent that exists in academic research communities. Every year, a selected group of winners are chosen from a large pool of applicants and given one-time funding to help make their conceptual ideas a reality.

• Yaser Sheikh, RI, 2010
  Dynamic Visual SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping):
  Reconstructing Dynamic Environments from Mobile Cameras
• Alan Black, LTI, 2010
  Conversational Speech Analysis