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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 ...

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is actively involved in the safe transportation of energy and hazardous material that are vital to daily lives. This also includes underground natural gas storage (UNGS) maintenance and safe operation which are critical to nation's energy infrastructure. Enhancing leak detection and identifying smart ways to prevent potential well blow ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. An ever present and fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping to quickly locate and correctly identify targets from vast quantities of image data. Despi ...

The ability for the Department of Defense to keep pace with rapidly-expanding content, both internal and external, requires human - machine teaming, utilizing AI-based tools for information aggregation, organization and summarization, so that humans can focus on analysis and decision making.

How Glass SCMs Solve the Market Need. The process of producing cement has remained unchanged since the industrial revolution. Concrete producers need a new high performing cement alternative to lower their concrete products' cost and embodied carbon. Otherwise, we will be building our future communities using a process with the environmental and financial costs of 1820s technology. This project wi ...

Wright Electric seeks to develop the next generation of all-electric vehicle through the innovative design of engine systems that use cutting edge innovations in integrated cooling, power electronics and rotor design. The innovative design will create a higher efficiency, higher performance motor without sacrificing safety or the use of existing manufacturing techniques. Phase I of this project wi ...

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 ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. A fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. De ...

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 ...

Adversaries and competitors of the United States are increasingly leveraging the rapidly evolving Information Environment (IE) to advance their strategic interests against those of the US and allied nations. Maintaining an information advantage in the progressively fragmented online landscape is challenging, as the impact of activities in the IE are difficult to discern and “real-world” effect ...