TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase I: 9.3
TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Commerce.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Commerce · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 9.3
- Solicitation
- NOAA-OAR-OAR-TPO-2021-2006702
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2021-09-01 → 2022-02-28
Description
We propose to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can automatically process infrared video to detect and classify marine mammals. We will use a novel deep neural architecture developed at Toyon based on the latest research in artificial neural networks. Our approach is able to capture both temporal and spatial features that are present in the infrared video. We plan to train our network using months of recorded long wave infrared (LWIR) video from multiple cameras that observed the ocean day and night for months at a time with marine mammals present on occasion. Our training process will involve the use of human‐developed algorithms and semi‐automated tools for data extraction. We will evaluate the performance of our AI system and compare its performance to existing human‐developed algorithms.