There is an explosion in the quantity and quality of IMINT data being captured in Intelligence Surveillance and
Reconnaissance (ISR) today. While automated exploitation techniques involving computer vision are arriving, only a
few architectures can manage both the storage and bandwidth of large volumes of IMINT data and also present results to
analysts quickly. Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) has been actively researching in the area
of applying Big Data cloud computing techniques to computer vision applications. This paper presents the results of this
work in adopting a Lambda Architecture to process and disseminate IMINT data using computer vision algorithms. The
approach embodies an end-to-end solution by processing IMINT data from sensors to serving information products
quickly to analysts, independent of the size of the data. The solution lies in dividing up the architecture into a speed layer
for low-latent processing and a batch layer for higher quality answers at the expense of time, but in a robust and fault-tolerant
way. This approach was evaluated using a large corpus of IMINT data collected by a C-130 Shadow Harvest
sensor over Afghanistan from 2010 through 2012. The evaluation data corpus included full motion video from both
narrow and wide area field-of-views. The evaluation was done on a scaled-out cloud infrastructure that is similar in
composition to those found in the Intelligence Community. The paper shows experimental results to prove the scalability
of the architecture and precision of its results using a computer vision algorithm designed to identify man-made objects
in sparse data terrain.
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