McQ Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SOCOM15-006

Description

The purpose of this SBIR is to develop a hand emplaced ruggedized device that provides motion detection sensing, day/night imaging, and image processing; to detect and identify personnel in the vicinity of the system. This device must be as low SWAP-C (size weight power and cost) as possible, connect to a hand held display 100m-200m away via a wired or wireless link, detect personnel with a 45-60 degree field of view at a range of 45m-75m. After detecting a target with motion sensing, video from a camera must be processed onboard to determine if the target is a person and if the person is exhibiting hostile intent. For this miniature target recognition an display system (MTRDS) project, McQ will leverage its extensive experience developing low SWAP-C and rugged unattended ground sensor systems specifically its experience developing carefully designed motion sensing and imaging systems and its extensive imaging processing experience to meet all of the objectives of this SBIR. In Phase I, personnel target data collection, image processing algorithm development, system modeling, and component selections will be performed.