NOKOMIS INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: A17-142
NOKOMIS INC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $999,923
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- A17-142
- Solicitation
- 17.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- PA
- Period
- 2019-02-04 → 2021-12-15
Description
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is confounded by noise and damage in real world documents. Preprocessing documents to remove noise will improve the performance of current OCR software. Nokomis has demonstrated technology that improves Word Error Rate (WER) by performing image denoising and preprocessing prior to OCR. Nokomis will mature this technology and integrate it with the Army’s Machine Foreign Language Translation System (MFLTS). Nokomis will implement a module to automatically classify the level and type of degradation, then apply the optimal pre-processing operations for the given type and level of degradation, improving WER. Nokomis will characterize the performance of the HANDI framework and quantify the improvement in WER as realized in the MFLTS. A test and evaluation of the performance of the HANDI system within the MFLTS will be performed. Based on test and evaluation, Nokomis will improve and customize the system to satisfy the needs of the Army.