TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N151-040
TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N151-040
- Solicitation
- 2015.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2015-07-06 → 2016-11-25
Description
Detection of possible hostile threats at long ranges is critical to the situational awareness of submarines. From periscope imagery, threat detection amounts to visual detection of small targets at or near the horizon. Toyon Research Corporation proposes the development of algorithms and software for automated detection of horizon contacts with minimal false alarms. Toyon will extend existing clutter suppression and track-before-detect algorithms with a novel adaptive horizon contact filter using operator feedback in an active learning framework. The proposed system will enable real-time processing of periscope imagery with minimal latency and provides significant performance advantages in low signal to noise ratio scenarios.