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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 ...

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 ...

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Satellite and airborne platforms provide timely, detailed, and readily available still and full-motion imagery to support U.S. national security. A constant requirement for this type of data is automated object detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. This requirement is made more challenging when a ...

Expanding constellations of earth observation satellites are drastically increasing the availability of satellite imagery to the US government, providing timely, detailed, and readily available intelligence for mission planning and situational awareness on a global scale. Under the DARPA funded SBIR Phase 2 GEOMETRIX program, VSI developed an innovative ecosystem to distill and reconcile commercia ...

The Every Camera a Biometric Checkpoint (ECBC) moves biometric-based identity dominance further to the edge for near real-time detection of threatening individuals, preventing infiltration by non-authorized personnel, and authenticating authorized personnel. The primary objective of the desired capability is to rapidly determine or verify a person’s identity from live video surveillance by autom ...

Modern deep learning-based face recognition systems perform at or above human levels on high quality frontal imagery, but their performance suffers significantly on more operationally relevant imagery with confounding factors such as extreme pose.  This performance degradation is based on two primary shortcomings: poor match between training and test-time image data, and failure to model inherent ...

The U.S. Army has identified a need to identify an unknown subject in those circumstances and environments in which it is only possible to collect a profile face image (i.e., images extracted from Captured Enemy Material (CEM) and from publicly available information sources).  The ability to identify individuals in currently fielded systems based on a profile face image would be greatly enhanced ...

The U.S. Army has identified a need to enhance force protection and intelligence operations by automating the detection and classification of vehicles and weapons from live video sources and correlating these objects with specific individuals.  To address these needs, Tygart Technology, Inc. will develop, enhance and commercialize an Internet-of-things (IoT) edge-device capable of monitoring live ...

With increasing demands for higher performance and lower weight for equipment and vehicles, the United States Army is seeking ways to incorporate composites into various structures ranging from gun barrels to air frames. Composites, unlike traditional metals or ceramics, provide high strengths with minimal weight penalties. For this effort, the Army is primarily looking for development of a metal ...