SBIR/STTR Research Award
5-Deep Learning Surface Object Classifier
Award amount
$149,974Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- UTOPIACOMPRESSION,CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- 2019-11-21
- Contract end date
- 2020-04-20
- UEI
- HR7PGAJ92Z97
- Solicitation number
- 19.3
- Topic code
- N193-A02
Research abstract
The future of Naval surface warfare will involve a large fleet of airborne, surface, and subsurface unmanned vehicles. Unmanned surface vehicles (USV) must autonomously navigate safely through congested waters, avoiding obstacles. USVs must also be able to autonomously process their sensor data in real-time for situational awareness. UtopiaCompression’s (UC) Maritime Visual Analytics (MVA) technologies enable both military and civilian users to process visual data. In this SBIR project, UC will build on MVA to create a deep learning surface object classifier providing USVs with instant situational awareness of the objects in their vicinity as well as the unfolding events.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Intelligent Visual System for Maritime Applications
- Intelligent Visual System for Maritime Applications
- Ground Asset Navigation using Aerial Guidance in Contested Environments
- CO AIR - Cooperative Operation of Assets using Intelligent Reinforcements to enhance the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) capability
- Robust Target Handoff in a UAV Swarm in GPS-Denied Environments
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Modular, Low SWaP, Pixelated Green Lidar for AQS-20
- Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Autonomous Behavior Development -- 22-048
- (4) A Novel Approach to Recognizing Video Events with Varying Rhythms
- 5 – Automated Maritime Entity Recognition (AMER) System
- 5-Context- and AI-Based Reasoning for Identification onBOard UUVs (5-CARIBOU)
Research funding history
121 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2025). Reported award amounts total $42,524,603. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy