Commander, Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, Code 210000D, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100

A -- VIDEO REGISTRATION OF PARTIALLY OCCLUDED OBJECTS ALGORITHM SOL N68936-00-R-0114 DUE 082100 POC Linda Long, Contract Specialist, (760) 939-4232 The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, CA, intends to procure from Cognitech, Inc., 225 S. Lake Ave., STE 601, Pasadena, CA 91101-3010, for research of video registration of partially occluded objects on an other than full and open competition basis under FAR 6.302-1. The overall goal of this research effort is to develop unique contrast invariant registration and shape extracting algorithms to enable image processing demands required for ONR Future Naval Capability Time Critical Strike. The contractor will be required to develop affine projective contrast invariant image operators and shape representations to support multiple functions in strike warfare. These operators must be capable of registering multichannel movies, multimodal images with offsets that exceed several hundred pixels and multiscale video images with grid independent methods. The contractor will do research enabling a multi-layer registered archive that provides a unified framework for multisensor and multispectral imagery. The multi-layer registration archive and algorithm must also provide geometrically correct three-dimensional reconstruction of the archive contents. Active management functions required and provided by the data archive must include dynamic spatial-temporal augmentation and multidimensional querying. Spatial-temporal increments, i.e., the insertion of new data to the archive, to the data archive continuum must be automatically photogrametrically consistent with the current contents of the data archive. The data archive must support geo-spatial indexing which will enable automated image content only and relational parsing for retrieval. The methods employed in the construction, archiving, and search of the database must be able to address significant contrast changes due to clutter and partial occlusion that are well beyond projective models and scale changes. Since contrast changes are non-uniform in general features must be as local as possible and neither dark objects nor light objects should havepreference over the other when indexing or searching the archive. The framework employed for all algorithm development must include an assessment of its impact on the time critical strike targeting timeline and must be sufficiently agile and accurate to enable precision targeting. Deliverables will include a final technical report detailing results of the research performed under this contract. The government contemplates three one-year Phases. Phases II and III will enable the contractor to further investigate and refine algorithms. During the second Phase year, the goals are twofold. The first is to demonstrate spatio-temporal multichannel video registration allowing for partial occlusion. The second is to create shape databases for fast image parsing to support image content querying from a single video stream to a new video stream. The third year effort will demonstrate photogrametrically consistent spatial-temporal archive video incrementing without knowledge of the full projective transformation, and provide geometrically correct three- dimensional reconstruction of the archive contents. Proposed type of contract is cost plus fixed fee. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, respondents other than Cognitech, may identify their interest by submitting their qualifications and capability to perform and/or a proposal within 45 days after publication of this synopsis. Responses to this shall be submitted in writing to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Code 210000D/Attn: L.Long, 1 Administration Circle, China Lake, CA 93555-6100. The RFP will be issued on/about 3 July 2000 and will close 45 days thereafter. Questions may be addressed to the above Point of Contact. Requests for solicitation may be e-mailed to longll@navair.navy.mil or telefaxed to 760-939-4241. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. See numbered notes 1, 22, and 26. Posted 06/19/00 (W-SN466219). (0171)

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