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D&D Products Inc. will design and develop an in-situ floating debris capture device. The device will be located at the edge of a stream, canal or similar waterbody. Floating booms will be attached to the device, and the waterway current will guide debris along the booms into the gathering head. The gathering head will direct debris into the hopper and feed it onto a conveying mechanism. The convey ...

According to the USDA, 25% of the US fresh fruit supply at the consumer level is wasted, which equates to 9.5 billion pounds. To address consumer food waste, Imvela Corp. proposes to develop a novel, natural ingredient that reduces microbial spoilage and extends shelf life, when applied to berries after they are harvested. Our approach is innovative because we collect experimental data from a larg ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Specific Need for the Technology: This research enables development of a new microbial culture that will produce the world’s first natural microbial bioprotectant product. Retail/consumer/service sees losses (spoilage) of >$162 billion/year, or ~30% of all food, of which around ~20% is dairy6. Chemical preservatives are a principal approach to mitigating spoilage, however because of evolving con ...

The carbon impact of materials used in residential and commercial buildings is substantial. The building trade must urgently shift towards using materials with lower embodied carbon, or better yet, use materials that can sequester carbon over the life of the building and beyond. Drywall is used in enormous quantities and comes with a considerable carbon footprint. Cinterest has prototyped a wallbo ...

How Glass SCMs Solve the Market Need The process to produce 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 embodied carbon and financial costs of 1820s technology. This project aim ...

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 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 ...