CLOSTRA INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A20-107

CLOSTRA INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$111,487
Agency
Department of Defense · Army
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
A20-107
Solicitation
20.2
NAICS
Place of performance
FL
Period
2020-10-16 → 2021-07-29

Description

Recent innovations in deep learning theory and implementation have enabled neural nets to achieve what was once unthinkable:  beat humans at complex image recognition skills, safely pilot cars over chaotic road systems, and overwhelm Grandmaster Lee Sedol in the game of Go, a challenge previously thought immune to AI because of the game’s near-infinite complexity. Clostra has applied a machine learning solution to automatically label/segment ML datasets.  While training neural networks are computationally intensive and requires specialized hardware,  execution is computationally inexpensive and can be implemented with very modest CPU and memory requirements.  Phase 1 of the project determines feasibility by testing and training a sophisticated segmentation/localization/classifier allowing for large datasets to be automatically label for use in training neural networks.