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Automatic visual content extraction and scene understanding is an enabling technology for video surveillance, situational awareness, and force protection applications. High-level scene comprehension requires a deep understanding of objects, scene elements and their inter-relations. Current systems lack a general visual knowledge framework and efficient computational algorithms for detecting large ...

Recognition of objects and their relationships is a critical part of automatic scene understanding. Scene understanding based on object appearance alone is not sufficient as the functions of a facility change over time, especially in areas of ongoing conflicts. However, almost all surveillance imagery contains vehicular and human activities. By monitoring the activities of vehicles and dismounts, ...

Luna Innovations will perform high temperature (200°F) thermal testing on nitrate ester mixtures and determine the stabilizer depletion reaction rate kinetics, as well as compare the rate kinetics of different stabilizer compounds. Novel polymer and oligomeric stabilizer compounds will have their depletion kinetics measured and an optimal candidate will be chosen for scale up and formulation with ...

Corrosion damage costs the Navy time and money by requiring critical components to be monitored for fatigue on a scheduled basis rather than by need. When quantitative analysis of corrosion data is obtained, lifetime models and corresponding depot level re-work can be planned appropriately while maintaining fleet readiness. White light interferometry (WLI) uses white light interference patterns to ...

Recent efforts at improving shipboard operations have focused on desalination systems. One area in which manpower may be significantly reduced is in the monitoring chlorine residuals from hypochlorite enhanced streams that are used for periodic biofouling control flushes of microfiltration membranes. These are used for pretreatment of seawater prior to exposure to reverse osmosis membranes used fo ...

SBIR Topic N092-093 clearly describes the roadblocks that must be overcome in order to provide 3D surface mapping of corrosion on complex curved surfaces. Barron Associates and Southwest Research Institute propose innovations in sensing, control, and signal processing that will serve as the foundation for a new 3D corrosion mapping system (3DCMS). The cornerstone of the 3DCMS is the integrated opt ...

The recent deployment of high-resolution stereo-imaging sensors aboard satellites affords a unique opportunity to to derive more realistic material classified terrain terrain databases for physics-based sensor and mission trainers. JRM is uniquely experienced and qualified in the many technology areas required to support this topic: EO, IR and radar signature synthesis and phenomenology understand ...

We propose to develop a power scalable, multi-spectral, fiber laser source, capable of simultaneous laser ourput in the mid-IR (2-5um) atmospheric propagation bands of interest. The fiber laser is based on non-silica oxide fibers being developed by Fibertek and its partners, and is optimized for both low loss in the mid-IR region, as well as for high non-linearity. This all-fiber architecture with ...

Energy harnessing technology must be tuned to the environment that they harness. The ocean harnesses energy created by the sun storing most of it in the surface in the form of heat, light, and kinetic energy. The deeper in the ocean you travel, your options become reduced. Near the ocean floor there is essentially only one viable source still present besides biological energy. It is kinetic energy ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have been developing technology in support of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Mission Objectives. A key element of the ORS objectives is to rapidly configure a satellite and launch it within 6 days. Another key element is the actual satellite design based on a set of mission requirements and constraints. There ar ...