SBIR/STTR Research Award

Automated Visual Detection of Small Contacts on the Horizon

Award identifier adbe83b392c8ee69a8b5d008ca0fbd9bc95e3585690a87543c63d45433808169Awarding agency Department of Defense · Navy

Award amount

$1,499,978

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase II

Award year

2017

Award details

Awarding agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Recipient company: TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION
Proposal award date: 2017-01-09
Contract end date: 2020-07-23
UEI: PK1CB3L39XX8
Solicitation number: 15.1
Topic code: N151-040

Research abstract

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.

Technology keywords

Not reported

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Research funding history

601 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2026). Reported award amounts total $249,287,075. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II

Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy