KEYWORDS: Sensors, Video, Global Positioning System, Video processing, Cameras, Telecommunications, Data acquisition, Receivers, Binary data, Data communications
Implanted mines and improvised devices are a persistent threat to Warfighters. Current Army countermine missions for route clearance need on-the-move standoff detection to improve the rate of advance. Vehicle-based forward looking sensors such as electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) devices can be used to identify potential threats in near real-time (NRT) at safe standoff distance to support route clearance missions. The MOVERS (Micro-Cloud for Operational, Vehicle-Based EO-IR Reconnaissance System) is a vehicle-based multi-sensor integration and exploitation system that ingests and processes video and imagery data captured from forward-looking EO/IR and thermal sensors, and also generates target/feature alerts, using the Video Processing and Exploitation Framework (VPEF) “plug and play” video processing toolset. The MOVERS Framework provides an extensible, flexible, and scalable computing and multi-sensor integration GOTS framework that enables the capability to add more vehicles, sensors, processors or displays, and a service architecture that provides low-latency raw video and metadata streams as well as a command and control interface. Functionality in the framework is exposed through the MOVERS SDK which decouples the implementation of the service and client from the specific communication protocols.
The scope of the Micro-Cloud for Operational, Vehicle-Based EO-IR Reconnaissance System (MOVERS) development effort, managed by the Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), is to develop, integrate, and demonstrate new sensor technologies and algorithms that improve improvised device/mine detection using efficient and effective exploitation and fusion of sensor data and target cues from existing and future Route Clearance Package (RCP) sensor systems. Unfortunately, the majority of forward looking Full Motion Video (FMV) and computer vision processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) algorithms are often developed using proprietary, incompatible software. This makes the insertion of new algorithms difficult due to the lack of standardized processing chains. In order to overcome these limitations, EOIR developed the Government off-the-shelf (GOTS) Video Processing and Exploitation Framework (VPEF) to be able to provide standardized interfaces (e.g., input/output video formats, sensor metadata, and detected objects) for exploitation software and to rapidly integrate and test computer vision algorithms. EOIR developed a vehicle-based computing framework within the MOVERS and integrated it with VPEF. VPEF was further enhanced for automated processing, detection, and publishing of detections in near real-time, thus improving the efficiency and effectiveness of RCP sensor systems.
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