Acorn Science & Innovation, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: DTRA182-005
Acorn Science & Innovation, Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,730
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- DTRA182-005
- Solicitation
- 18.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- VA
- Period
- 2019-03-19 → 2019-10-18
Description
Reliable automated pattern recognition in the current system is limited by excessive noise and clutter combined with insufficient and/or ambiguous features. Our team consisting of AcornSI and Leidos thus propose a multi-step approach based on the combined effects of improved detection, feature extraction, phase identification, and global association. A key innovation here is creating a new classification feature and confidence based on machine vision to directly classify waveform spectrograms. Improved legacy and new features are then sent to a (possibly nested) support vector machine (SVM) to automatically determine event classifications with associated confidence scores.