List of Research Themes to Expand in the areas
of AI and Content Creation Technology
TOKYO, July 12,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Group Corporation
(Sony) announced today that it will begin calling for research
proposals for the Sony Research Award Program on July 15, 2024. The Sony Research Award Program is
an open innovation program for universities and research
institutions such as government research institutes and nonprofit
organizations in the U.S., Canada,
17 European countries*1 and India. It provides sponsored research funding
for projects on emerging and innovative technologies in
collaboration with Sony Group's own research groups. This year, the
program will expand its research theme list in the areas of AI and
content creation technology.
The program is comprised of two awards – the Faculty Innovation
Award and the Focused Research Award. The awards create new
opportunities for academics to engage in cutting-edge research
leading to the introduction of breakthrough technologies.
- The Faculty Innovation Award grants up to $100,000 USD to principal investigators for one
year*2, for diverse research projects including AI, that
may fall within three broad subject categories (Information
Technology, Devices & Materials, and Biomedical & Life
Sciences) relevant to Sony's general research interests.
- The Focused Research Award provides support for up to
$150,000 USD for one
year*2, to conduct research on themes more focused on
Sony's immediate areas of interest. There will be 12 themes this
year, with many centering on content creation technology.
Sony will continue to advance research and development and
promote innovation through partnerships with universities and
research institutes around the world.
For more information about the awards, as well as the submission
guidelines, please visit
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research-award-program/ .
*1 European countries included in the program are
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom.
*2 With the possibility of an extension.
Comment from Hiroaki Kitano,
Executive Deputy President and CTO, Sony Group
Corporation
"Sony's Purpose is to 'Fill the world with
emotion, through the power of creativity and technology.' Based on
this purpose, Sony strives to develop technologies that unleashes
the creativity of artists, engineers, scientists and all those who
are working to build a better future filled with emotion (kando).
To achieve this, embracing diversity and leveraging various
technologies is essential. We believe that the Sony Research Award
Program provides opportunities for collaborations between the Sony
Group and academia and research organizations around the world to
develop breakthrough technologies and innovations for the
future."
Comment from the award recipient in 2021 and
2022:
Professor Aaron
Courville, University of
Montreal (Canada)
"In collaboration with
researchers from Sony, my students and I are investigating the
learning algorithms behind large language models to find ways to
train them to be more efficient and give better performance. With
Sony funding, we have also explored vision-and-language models that
generalize robustly to new contexts -- something with which
prediction models often struggle. Through it all, Sony has been an
excellent research partner and we have now extended our joint
research project. In collaboration with Sony, we hope to advance
AI, a technology that can be applied to a wide range of fields, and
to contribute to society at large."
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