NASA Langley Research Center, MS 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton, VA 23681-0001

70 -- VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM POC NASA Langley Research Center, Industry Assistance Office, Mailstop 144, Hampton, VA 23681-0001. A commercially available, completely integrated, self-standing image processing workstation (IPW) and lossless digital image storage subsystem (DISS) are being sought. The IPW must be able to digitize, display, process, and through interaction with the DISS, store and retrieve images at a real-time video rate of 30 frames per second. A digital image frame is defined to be 512 columns by 480 rows at 8 bits of precision. The IPW real-time digital image processing operations should include convolution, image statistics generation, look up table (LUT) processing, binary morphology, arithmetic and logic operations, object analysis, and first and second order image warping. In addition to working with 512 x 480 x 8 bit images, the IPW must have a software controlled pixel clock rate for real-time image capture at higher resolutions, and be capable of real-time digitization and display of color video imagery, with a minimum size of 512 x 480 x 3 (8-bit) channels. Processing on the IPW and storage and retrieval on the DISS of the higher resolution and higher bit precision (color) images should be possible, even though real-time rates may not be achieved. The DISS must seamlessly integrate with the IPW and must be capable of storing a minimum of 8 Gigabytes of image data at a sustained rate of 12 Mbytes/second. Images of varying sizes and bit precisions need to be stored on the same disk. Image storage before or after processing images on the IPW must be possible. Variable speed playback of images from the DISS to a display device is required. Software must be designed to fully support the high performance characteristics of the hardware devices and provide all functions for proper operation of all hardware components. It is expected that the software will be continually improved and updates released periodically. The entire system, IPW and DISS, should be easily upgraded with minimum obsolescence and the storage system should be expandable in capacity and bandwidth. Firms having the capabilities necessary to meet the above requirement are invited to submit sales literature addressing these capabilities and at least one reference from a previous contract, preferably from a Government agency. (Please provide a contract number, names of cognizant contract personnel, and an applicable telephone number on the contract). This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and does not indicate a commitment by the Government nor that the Government will pay for information solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resulting solicitation for the requirement. Firms responding should indicate whether they are a socially or economically disadvantaged business firm, a small business, an 8(a), and/or a women-owned business. The Government reserves the right to consider a small business or 8(a) set-aside based on responses hereto. All responses shall be submitted to the NASA Langley Research Center, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton, VA 23681-0001 within 14 days from date of publication of this announcement. In responding reference SS232. (0122)

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