The research and development of SSPS include acoustic/speech signal processing and analysis; 2D/3D image pre-/post-processing, modeling, reconstruction, and recognition; bio-signal processing and analysis; biometrics; machine learning; automatic target detection, tracking, and recognition; visual-based surveillance; data fusion; information retrieval; 2D/3D data visualization; real-time system development; remote sensing and analysis; sensor management; human system interaction (HSI); and address many specific problems on-demand, such as :
1. IED detection/Chemical/Biological defense
2. Real-time human target detection and tracking
3. Dismount and vehicle detection and tracking in persistent surveillance
4. Biometrics in Maritime domain
5. Bio-signal processing and analysis for operator functional state assessment and prediction
6. Stereo imaging and display with uncalibrated camera
7. Real-time traffic inspection and event detection in video
8. Mine detection with EO, IR, LIDAR, and multi-spectral sensors
9. Advanced antenna design & RF components
10. Advanced sensor design (Nano-technology and ASIC )
11. Integrated GPS/IMU/Vision navigation
12. GPS-denied navigation and wireless network based positioning
13. Offline and online multimodal sensor registration
14. New high-performance GPS receiver development
15. Human Computer Interaction employing speech, touch, vision or biometrics technologies
16. Human-robot teaming for search and rescue
17. Information Fusion Performance Evaluation (Image Fusion and Tracking)
18. And many others
In addition, we have many years' experience on all major sensor types including EO/IR, HSI, SAR, GMTI, UGS, LIDAR, SONAR, SBV, Acoustic and Semantics Sensors, and real-time system development through DSP, FPGA. GPU, and multi-cores implementation.
Example Projects:
1. VHF/UHF Emitter Localization Based on DOA Fusion with Two UAS.
2. Video to Text (V2T) for Wide Area Motion Imagery.
2, June, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force STTR Phase I award on HPC-MTT: High Performance Computing Enabled Multiple Target Tracking for Urban Surveillance Areas
3, May, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase I award on Consistency Based Gaussian Mixture Tracking Framework for Space Situation Awareness (CbGM-SSA)
4, May, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase I award on Network Survivability Oriented Markov Games (NSOMG) in Wideband Satellite Communications
5, March, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force Research Lab. BAA award on Video to Text (V2T) for Wide Area Motion Imagery
6, November, 2012 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force STTR Phase I award on SANDGT: a Stochastic Adaptive Nonlinear Differential Game Tool for Persistent and Risk-Averse Space Situation Awareness
7, November, 2012 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase II award on A Holistic Approach to Optimal and Secure Tactical Wireless Broadband Systems
8, November, 2012 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase II award on A Network Sensor-Based Defense Framework for Active Network Security Situation Awareness and Impact Mitigation
9, August, 2012 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase III contract on Autonomous ISR Testbed with multiple robots
10, August, 2012 --- IFT received an Air Force STTR Phase I contract on Effective Routing Algorithms for IP based Satellite Networks
11, May, 2012 --- IFT received a DARPA SBIR Phase II contract on VHF/UHF Emitter Localization Based on DOA Fusion with Two UAS
12, Jan., 2012 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase I contract on A Holistic Approach to Optimal and Secure Tactical Wireless Broadband Systems
13, September, 2011 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase I contract on A Network Sensor-Based Defense Framework for Active Network Security Situation Awareness and Impact Mitigation
14, September, 2011 --- IFT received a contract on SOA based persistent ISR Testbed development
15, July, 2011 --- IFT received a contract on Stackelberg Game Approach to Cognitive Radio Networking with Anti-Jamming
16, June, 2011 --- IFT received a DARPA SBIR Phase I contract on VHF/UHF Emitter Localization Based on DOA Fusion with Two UAS
17, April, 2011 --- IFT received a contract on face detection, eyeglasses detection, image retrieval algorithms for face recognition
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