Intelligent Automation, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: NGA191-002
Intelligent Automation, Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $100,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- NGA191-002
- Solicitation
- 19.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MD
- Period
- 2019-08-12 → 2020-05-18
Description
Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), along with our collaborators propose to develop a video tagging and statistics toolkit called VAST-CQA (Video Annotation and Statistics Toolkit for Crowdsourcing Quality Assessment). The key idea of the proposed approach is to provide a video quality annotation toolkit which reduces the effects of bias, subjective assessment and other human factors using a set of statistics such as bias estimation, intelligent video selection, and consensus. Analysts will interact with an intuitive user interface for video quality assessment which is supported by a scalable video storage and processing pipeline. The results are combined using analyst-specific weighted consensus to mitigate noise and outliers. This ensures that the results of crowd-sourced video quality assessment accurately represent the VNIIRS scale even in the presence of subjective interpretation, experimental bias and ambiguity.