SOAR TECHNOLOGY, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: SCO182-006
SOAR TECHNOLOGY, LLC — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $1,468,319
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- SCO182-006
- Solicitation
- 18.2
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MI
- Period
- 2023-05-23 → 2024-11-30
Description
This effort will extend the RL-ICE capability for low-shot object detection to operate with zero real data within the MWIR band (zero-shot learning). Our goal is to 1.) mature our software, 2.) maximize the performance benefit of synthetic data in training an object detector and, 3.) assess the trade-space of real vs synthetic data by comparing performance to a detector trained on fully real data. We expect the primary use case will be detection of a specific object of interest in motion imagery. We will collaborate with the Government and other performers to assess the relative performance of synthetic data and real data training methodologies.