SBIR/STTR Research Award

KAIZEN: Knowledge Aware Intelligent Zero-shot Explainable Multi-Modal Network

Award identifier 4961e310d22bf3ccc734cb3ea2a0792d203c120d23be44ce5ac27a8f426096b2Awarding agency Department of Defense · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Award amount

$100,000

Program and phase

SBIR · Phase I

Award year

2021

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Recipient company
Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Proposal award date
2021-06-01
Contract end date
2022-02-28
UEI
C3QJD7VXG167
Solicitation number
20.3
Topic code
NGA203-005

Research abstract

Detecting relevant objects of interest in large datasets using artificial intelligence techniques is very appealing. However, most state of the art approaches use deep neural network techniques -- requiring millions of human annotated training examples. These datasets mostly come from academia and don’t transfer well to novel domains. Even with the use of smaller annotated datasets and an application of transfer learning techniques, human annotations are required, which can be impossible to obtain in limited data scenarios or when annotation time from analysts is not available. Additionally, the end user of these technologies has no way of identifying why the system made its decisions and is unable to determine how to fix the errors. A system designed to address these problems should (i) learn how to detect new objects of interest quickly; (ii) be able to detect across domains and camera view-points; and (iii) be more accessible and human understandable to an end user who is not a machine learning expert. Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) propose to develop a novel mathematical model and training paradigm to build a system that creates automated annotation analytics from limited or zero training samples from new datasets and domains to build robust annotation analytics.

Technology keywords

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Research funding history

1,182 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2021). Reported award amounts total $369,972,257. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.

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

Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security

Agency intelligence

Department of Defense

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