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Hyperspectral Mutli-Target Feature-Aided Tracking

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 		Award ID:
91883 		Program Year/Program:
2009 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
09SB1-0068 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Numerica Corporation
4850 Hahns Peak Drive Suite 200 Loveland, CO -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2009
Title: Hyperspectral Mutli-Target Feature-Aided Tracking
Agency / Branch: DOD / DARPA
Contract: W31P4Q-09-C-0572
Award Amount: $98,831.00
 

Abstract:

Military operations in urban warfare provide an added emphasis to effectively detect, track, and ID ground targets in challenging environments. Given the high dynamic nature of ground targets and the ambiguity that may result from closely spaced targets, incorporation of feature data from sensors such as hyperpsectral imagery (HSI) cameras provides a means to disambiguate the detection and tracking of these targets. The benefit of using these sensors in multi-target detection and tracking is the ability to build feature models for target tracks based on the spectral and spatial information over multiple wavelengths. The video-based tracking community has demonstrated the ability to resolve closely spaced targets by incorporating color features versus intensity data alone. The addition of 20 to 200 additional wavelengths has the potential to significantly improve target detection and tracking to distinguish among targets. The Phase I effort will develop and demonstrate an innovative multiple target feature-aided tracking system and a hierarchical detection process supported by novel detection techniques. The system will focus on HSI feature-aided tracking of multiple targets in an urban setting using both real and simulated data.

Principal Investigator:

Juan Vasquez
Program Director
9374279725
juan.vasquez@numerica.us

Business Contact:

Jeff Poore
Vice President/COO
9704612422
jeff.poore@numerica.us
Small Business Information at Submission:

NUMERICA CORP.
4850 Hahns Peak Drive Suite 200 Loveland, CO 80538

EIN/Tax ID: 841349484
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No