Security & Surveillance
Stiletto craft before and after MotionDSP enhancements, photo courtesy of MotionDSP
A technology partnership With a vast and ever-increasing quantity of video-hours captured-due to the expanding fleet of military vehicles deployed and the multiplying number of cameras mounted per vehicle — there will be plenty of new opportunities and challenges for MotionDSP to tackle going forward.
For example, technology that could perform automated tactical analysis of video imagery would greatly reduce the burden on humans facing insurmountable hours of footage. “The next problem that we’re working on is really doing more to reduce what we call the Operator Workload, to help the DoD do more with fewer people,” says Varah. “This sort of advanced computer vision will require even more compute power than we’re using now.” There’s also a growing demand for Ikena at home, in the public safety sector. Avwatch, an aerial surveillance provider, supports disaster recovery ground teams with real-time video from above. Recent projects include Hurricane Irene and Montana forest fires. As Avwatch President Chris Kluckhuhn explains, “We’re using Ikena to stabilize and enhance video. When we’re streaming live broadcasts, all the Ikena improvements to the video are being done in real-time,
before they’re distributed live.” In the case of the Montana forest fires, Ikena’s Mosaicking feature was able to instantly stitch together several minutes of video to create a wide area “satellite view” of the forest fires.
“MotionDSP is at the leading edge of using computing technology to take postproduction Enhancements to a real- time environment and give capabilities to first-responders that we’ve never had before,” says Kluckhuhn. Whether it’s assisting emergency crews
with real-time tactical information, helping to prosecute a criminal case in court, or keeping a watchful eye over the troops abroad — MotionDSP is focused on developing new technologies that put safety first, according to Varah. “It’s very difficult to have leading-edge performance and total stability. You rarely have those two together. AMD does a very good job about being aggressive in terms of rolling out improvements and optimizations, but at the same time providing a driver that’s robust. And that’s really essential.”
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MotionDSP |
www.motiondsp.com
Mosaic image constructed from aerial video of a Montana forest fire using Ikena ISR software, video courtesy of Avwatch Inc
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