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MALIBU, Calif., March 19, 2010—HRL Laboratories, LLC, will begin work designing a revolutionary autonomous object-recognition system as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) NEOVISION2 Program. The goal of the NEOVISION2 program is to develop an unattended, stand-alone system that can operate without human supervision under a wide range of day or night environmental conditions.
HRL will lead a team of industry and university subcontractors to develop a neuromorphic object-recognition technology and demonstrate an end-to-end system that can be integrated into various platforms. The technology merges the latest scientific theory and modeling of critical mammalian visual functions, including retinal emulation, attention, search, object recognition and learning, motion processing and scene understanding.
"We are developing and implementing an architecture inspired by the mammalian visual pathway that has the potential to enable unprecedented object-recognition capabilities," said senior scientist Dr. Deepak Khosla, HRL NEOVISION2 program manager. "Instead of the end-user looking at raw, full-video streams and manually finding objects of interest, our technology will enable processing of the video onboard the platform to automatically detect and recognize objects of interest and cue the end-user."
In an initially funded 18-month Phase I effort, the HRL team will develop and demonstrate a technology that can be expanded in additional proposed phases into a prototype for field testing and deployment.
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HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California (www.hrl.com) is a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. HRL provides custom research and development and performs additional R&D contract services for its LLC member companies, the U.S. government, and other commercial companies.