Motion Imagery Exploitation with Compressive Sensing for Wide-Area Surveillance Navy STTR FY2012.A Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2012.A Topic No.: N12A-T026 Topic Title: Motion Imagery Exploitation with Compressive Sensing for Wide-Area Surveillance Proposal No.: N12A-026-0172 Firm: Mayachitra, Inc. 5266 Hollister Avenue, Suite 229 Santa Barbara, California 93111 Contact: Jayanth Nayak Phone: (805) 967-9828 Abstract: In this proposal, we present Motion Imagery Exploitation with Compressive Sensing (MIECS), a system for improving the flow and exploitation of data gathered from wide-area surveillance. The proposed system exploits techniques from the recently developed field of compressive sensing compressive sensing for solving this problem. The system exploits significant temporal redundancy in captured data in reducing bandwidth requirements for transmitting wide-area surveillance data gathered from aerial platforms while maintaining the quality of recognition of objects and activities. We plan to have a prototype of the proposed system by the end of Phase I that is capable of object recognition and tracking as well as activity analysis using a compressively sensed version of visual data. Benefits: MIECS, the proposed system will significantly reduce bandwidth requirements for communicating motion imagery by intelligently allocating the bit budget to areas which are relevant for information extraction. The proposed registration module for identifying common regions across frames will also improve geolocation of targets and activities. Finally, by incorporating spatial and temporal context the target and activity recognition performance will be improved. Return