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In Phase I, our team of Kitware and UC-Berkeley developed Scale-MAE by adding ground sample distance (GSD) to positional encodings, and produced a multiscale representation that achieves state-of-the art results across image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection tasks. In Phase II, we will create a remote sensing pretraining toolkit to enable fast and easy experimentation wit ...

The transportation of hazardous materials (HAZMAT) poses a significant risk to human health and the environment, as evidenced by recent disastrous derailments of freight trains. To enhance the safe transport of HAZMAT, a groundbreaking technology system called E-HazID is proposed. E-HazID integrates RFID with various sensors in a wireless tag that is placed on each HAZMAT package to identify and t ...

According to a recent survey, 178 million trips are taken across U.S.’s 46,000 structurally deficient bridges every day. Due to concerns over their actual load-carrying capacity, some of these bridges have posted weight and speed restrictions. The lack of enforcement of these load postings is an issue nationwide and presents risks for human lives and costly failures. To address this issue, this ...

Curing concrete properly is essential for strength gain and durability. While the importance of curing is widely known, all too often curing is not properly executed in practice. This proposal outlines a sensing system that will have three functions: · to record the weather conditions during the concrete placement. · to document how the implemented curing impacts a known concrete system. · to p ...

Food deserts are among the major contributing factors to food insecurity. There are more than 6,500 food desert tracts in the U.S., home to 23.5 million Americans. Rural food deserts are more than 10 miles from the nearest grocery store, and this distance poses extraordinary challenges for those who do not have a vehicle or cannot drive. In urban food deserts, people's grocery store inaccessibilit ...

Food deserts are among the major contributing factors to food insecurity. There are more than 6,500 food desert tracts in the U.S., home to 23.5 million Americans. Rural food deserts are more than 10 miles from the nearest grocery store, and this distance poses extraordinary challenges for those who do not have a vehicle or cannot drive. In urban food deserts, people's grocery store inaccessibilit ...

To improve the safety of passenger train exterior side doors, this SBIR project develops a low-cost Wireless Sensing and Warning System (WS2), a mesh network of advanced magnetic door position sensors that provides continuous monitoring and issues real-time warning to the train operator when a door is not properly closed.WS2 aims at retrofitting legacy passenger trains that do not possess a door s ...

The danger posed to bus passengers crossing a roadway, especially in low light or visibility conditions continues to be a significant and non-trivial challenge. The project proposes to develop a system to illuminate a virtual crosswalk onto the roadway to provide for a uniform and predictable safe walking pathway for the crossing passenger along with alerting the passenger when it is either safe o ...

The NGA program “GLIMPSE” leverages context and topography to geolocate imagery for further analysis. For this proposal, Clarifai intends to develop and deliver a deep-learning pipeline to reduce the geographical search space for an image that will expedite analysis and reduce computational cost. The objective of this proposal is to provide a system to (a) efficiently identify relevant imagery ...

Object detection datasets for overhead imagery are typically generated using bootstrapping methods to reduce annotator effort and cost. These methods iteratively train a detector from a limited set of user-provided and model-predicted labels. Such approaches bias detectors toward the initial object set, limiting their capacity to handle object variations or discover novel objects classes. MONET ov ...