Data Handling and Object Recognition

Over the last decade, the use of video surveillance, including UAV-based aerial video, has been growing exponentially – gathering video intelligence for critical defense and reconnaissance needs. Hundreds of thousands of hours of raw video have been collected and often left unexploited due to the exorbitant amount of time necessary to manually review so much of it. However, comprehensive analysis of all full-motion imagery is an urgent need, creating a demand for advanced and automated processing capabilities that Sarnoff meets and exceeds.

Sarnoff’s vision technologies offer cutting-edge capabilities for processing, enhancing, exploiting and managing extensive amounts of raw videos and creating actionable intelligence from them. These capabilities allow military and intelligence personnel to index, query and analyze streaming video, as well as archived video, in near real-time, creating a large-scale database that can be accessed for analytic and forensic purposes with an intuitive and intelligence user interface. Coupled with advanced object detection and recognition algorithms, Sarnoff’s vision technology enables understanding of both aerial and ground surveillance videos at the semantic level. Our video management system offers advanced search and filter tools based on spatial-, temporal-, object-, track- and event-based indexing, quickly putting accurate and useful information at a user’s fingertips,

The ability to effectively and efficiently manage and exploit surveillance data is critical to defense and homeland security initiatives. Sarnoff’s data handling and object recognition technologies enable a number of capabilities in the areas of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), wide-area real-time situational awareness, real-time precision targeting, forensic analysis and much more. Sarnoff’s computer vision technologies offer unparalleled capabilities for acquiring, processing, analyzing and managing full motion imagery from video enhancement, object detection/tracking and vehicle fingerprinting to activity and anomaly detection and faster database indexing, search and retrieval.