SBIR/STTR Research Award
VAST-CQA Video Annotation and Statistics Toolkit for Crowdsoucing Quality Assessment
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Recipient company
- Intelligent Automation, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-08-12
- Contract end date
- 2020-05-18
- UEI
- C3QJD7VXG167
- Solicitation number
- 19.1
- Topic code
- NGA191-002
Research abstract
Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), along with our collaborators propose to develop a video tagging and statistics toolkit called VAST-CQA (Video Annotation and Statistics Toolkit for Crowdsourcing Quality Assessment). The key idea of the proposed approach is to provide a video quality annotation toolkit which reduces the effects of bias, subjective assessment and other human factors using a set of statistics such as bias estimation, intelligent video selection, and consensus. Analysts will interact with an intuitive user interface for video quality assessment which is supported by a scalable video storage and processing pipeline. The results are combined using analyst-specific weighted consensus to mitigate noise and outliers. This ensures that the results of crowd-sourced video quality assessment accurately represent the VNIIRS scale even in the presence of subjective interpretation, experimental bias and ambiguity.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
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- Fast Accurate Safe Technology for Jack to Jig (FastJack)
- VMS: Deep Reinforcement Learning for High-fidelity Vehicle Motion Simulation
- VAST-CQA: Video Annotation and Statistics Toolkit for Crowdsourcing Quality Assessment
- SALUTEM: System for Activity Classification and Occupational Exposure Monitoring
- A Multiphysics Analysis Tool for Autoclave Processing of Composite Parts (MATAPro)
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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