SBIR-STTR Award

TrailBlazer: a GAN-Trained, High-Fidelity Track Simulator
Award last edited on: 3/10/2021

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : NGA
Total Award Amount
$100,000
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
NGA192-004
Principal Investigator
Aaron Bray

Company Information

Kitware Inc

1712 Route 9 Suite 300
Clifton Park, NY 12065
   (518) 371-3971
   kitware@kitware.com
   www.kitware.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 20
County: Saratoga

Phase I

Contract Number: HM047620C0042
Start Date: 5/12/2020    Completed: 2/17/2021
Phase I year
2020
Phase I Amount
$100,000
Persistent wide area sensor coverage enables unique intelligence analytic capabilities such as pattern-of-life detection, unsupervised pattern discovery, and anomaly detection. As these capabilities incorporate machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, large datasets are necessary for training and validation. However, the lack of datasets with high fidelity dynamic targets and actors, along with the high cost of annotating live ground truth experiments impacts the development of these solutions. To address these challenges, we introduce TrailBlazer: a GAN trained high-fidelity track simulator. Trailblazer development has two primary goals: (1) to collect a set of high-quality real activity data for use in validating simulated tracks and for final tracker testing and (2) to develop a high-fidelity track simulator trained on our real validation data. TrailBlazer’s high fidelity real and simulated data will enable the application of modern, data intensive machine learning techniques, such as deep learning, to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) tracking and analytics.

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