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Homeland Security

Briefing

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

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Briefing

Synthetik Applied Technologies has received $200,000 from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to develop a proof of concept for an artificial intelligence-based object recognition capability for the Transportation Security Administration. The Texas-based start-up company proposes using ream-time voxel-wise instance segmentation to detect objects during property screening at airports. The award is the first under S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Other Transaction Solicitation Object Recognition and Adaptive Algorithms for Airport Passenger Property Screening. …Transmute Industries, Inc.,…

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