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The ImTelligence business unit of AFR is focused on
advanced image analysis technologies. The current focus is on two
technologies: 1) video-centric radiation detection; and 2) analysis of intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data for the defense and intelligence
communities. The video-centric radiation detection activity was initially
known as RedStar™ (Radiation Event Detection System:Tracking and
Recognition) and was recently renamed
Gamma
Pix. Initial contract support was received for
video-centric radiation detection through a division of the the National
Academy of Science, the Transportation
Research Board’s (TRB)
Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA)
program. IDEA supports investigations which are designed to foster concepts
that have the potential to enhance security, increase ridership, and improve
efficiency for transit agencies.
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 In
September 2007, AFR was awarded a Department of Homeland Security contract
focusing on Radiological Source Surveillance using Video-Centric Radiation
Detection. This contract, funded by the Domestic Nuclear Detection
Office (DNDO) is to develop and commercialize software solutions designed to
reduce the likelihood of malicious use of radiological materials. A patented
(U.S. 7,391,028 plus foreign filings) analytical software
methodology evaluates images from security cameras to search for the small
"spots" that appear in images when a radiological source is nearby.
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National Academy of Science Transit-IDEA under the Department of
Transportation awarded AFR a contract to develop RedStar (Radiation Event
Detection System: Track and Recognition) technology supporting the "Detection
of Radioactivity in Transit Stations." The
Transit IDEA Project Annual Progress Report (p.80) describes this
IDEA concept and product. A Phase 2 project was recently completed to install,
test and evaluate the prototype system, using security cameras in a
Washington D.C. Metro station to detect and identify radioactive materials.
Working with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA),
a pilot installation was completed at the Medical Center Station. A video
with some results of this study can be found
here, while the Final
Report can be found
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The Transit IDEA Program is funded by the Federal Transit Administration FTA
and is managed by TRB. TRB is a division of the National Research
Council, which serves as an independent adviser to the federal government and
others on scientific and technical questions of national importance. The
National Research Council is jointly administered by the
National Academy of
Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
 AFR/ImTelligence
has been selected as part of the CT Technology Council's
FastTrack Program which recognizes
technology-based companies with the potential to rapidly scale into market and
financial leadership.
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ImTelligence®,
a business unit of AFR Inc., has also developed image analysis algorithms
for better knowledge extraction from Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance (ISR) imagery. We refer to these analysis processes as
Classification Assessment Modeling by Simulated Target Addition and
Recovery: ISR™ (CamStar: ISR). Development of the CamStar: ISR analysis
procedures was supported under a National Science Foundation STTR Phase 1
program with collaborators at Yale University.