Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT)

Abstract

The Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) program will develop and demonstrate a system for video data exploitation that enables an analyst to rapidly find video content of interest from archives and provides alerts to the analyst of events of interest during live operations. The ability to quickly search large volumes of existing video data and monitor real-time video data for specific activities or events will provide a new capability to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. Currently, video analysis is very labor intensive, limited to metadata queries, manual annotations, and "fast-forward" examination of clips. The software tools developed under VIRAT will radically improve the analysis of huge volumes of video data by: 1) alerting operators when specific events or activities occur at specific locations or over a range of locations and; 2) enabling fast, content-based searches of existing video archives. The final product of the VIRAT program is a system that can be transitioned to an integrated, operational military system, such as the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS).

Document Details

Document Type
Accomplishment
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
e166fb1cc5ea725871893b20d4e2ff52

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

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