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Amazon Web Services has demonstrated the potential defense applications of an artificial intelligence service designed to help software developers build image analysis applications. Amazon Rekognition employs deep learning methods to automatically identify objects and scenes as well as support image tagging to let users search for images using key words, AWS said Monday. The AI service also works to recognize […] More
The procurement agency of Germany’s national interior ministry has tasked Smiths Detection to provide hold baggage screening equipment at Berlin Brandenburg Airport that comply with the federal police agency’s EDS Standard 3 regulation. Smiths Detection said Wednesday the HI-SCAN 10080 XCT systems use x-ray technology, computed tomography and detection algorithms to provide levels of security and meet threat identification and false […] More
DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to develop a web-based repository of satellite imagery and training data that could support the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. DigitalGlobe said Thursday the SpaceNet repository provides open access to curated, high-resolution satellite imagery that includes the company’s multi-spectral satellite imagery and 200,000 curated building footprints from Brazil. The imagery […] More
A division of Harris Corp. will offer its geospatial analytics technology ENVI with the Icaros OneButton image processing software to support both manned and unmanned aerial sensor data extraction. Icaros said Wednesday it developed OneButton to provide geospatial end users with 2D maps and 3D models using frame-based imaging systems. Beau Legeer, data products business lead at the Harris geospatial solutions division, […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle co-sponsored a data science competition that has challenged participants to produce algorithms to enable automated analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging scans. More than 993 people of different genders and ages submitted approximately 1,392 algorithms for Kaggle’s second annual Data Science Bowl contest, Booz Allen said Wednesday. “This particular challenge was one that the medical community […] More
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a grant to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute for the development of tools that detect the onset of age-related macular degeneration. The lab said Tuesday the research team will utilize machine learning and image analysis technology to detect lesions in the retina and facilitate […] More
An Airbus subsidiary and Exelis have partnered to embed a geodatabase into Exelis’ spectral image analysis and sensor data processing platform offerings. Exelis said Monday its ENVI software customers will have access to Airbus Defense and Space’s collection of geospatial imagery between Oct. 6 and Dec. 31. The geospatial data catalog plugin is available for […] More
