Project Grant N000142512551

The awardee, Toyon Research Corporation, was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system to automatically process infrared video to detect and classify marine mammals. Using a novel deep neural network architecture developed at Toyon based on the latest artificial neural network research, the awardee will train their...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to Florida Atlantic University (FAU) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system for individual photo-identification and tracking of Florida manatees, a threatened marine species. The $630,001 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2029, will fund the development of new explainable AI algorithms to identify and track individual manatees by their...

Cvision Ai Inc. was awarded a $398,483 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The grant funded development of (ANNO)TATOR ONLINE, a web application for exploration and curation of underwater video and imagery. (ANNO)TATOR ONLINE allows users to annotate, tag, and organize marine media for research and education purposes. The project was completed between February 2021 and July 2022 in Medford, Massachusetts....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program provides $269,740 to the College of William and Mary to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system for individual photo-identification and tracking of Florida manatees, a threatened marine species. The key products and services to be delivered include: New algorithms grounded in explainable AI to identify and track individual manatees by their distinctive features...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472), aims to advance the state of telemetry tag technology for monitoring North Atlantic right whales (NARW). The $679,552 project, with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will focus on developing a new bioinspired adhesive mounting tag platform to enable longer-duration attachment of telemetry sensors on cetaceans. Key...

This Project Grant award of $805,132 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to develop novel artificial intelligence (AI) methods for automated sea ice classification. The project aims to address data availability and quality challenges in manually mapping sea ice conditions, which are crucial for climate monitoring, marine navigation, and offshore operations. The research will introduce weakly supervised AI techniques to...

The Synthetik Applied Technologies LLC (Ichor) was awarded a $149,562 project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop the DeepSpace-AI platform. DeepSpace-AI will automate object recognition in satellite imagery for applications in marine environmental monitoring. As a single platform for multiple recognition tasks, DeepSpace-AI will enable unprecedented observation of behaviors and trends involving...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $433,648 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support the development and testing of ropeless lift-bag technology to reduce marine mammal entanglements in commercial and recreational fixed gear fishing operations. Working under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and Endangered Species Act, the award recipient Smelts Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society will partner with fishermen to conduct trials marking fishing gear and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) provides $304,996 to Ai Sense LLC to develop a non-invasive, AI-powered wildlife deterrence system. The system aims to detect wildlife using computer vision, localize the animals, and deploy species-specific acoustic deterrents through directional sound waves. The research objectives include developing lightweight, real-time object detection models for embedded hardware,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (NSF TIP, CFDA 47.084) totaling $274,746 provides funding for the development of modular and updatable artificial intelligence capabilities for robotics. Optimizing Mind Inc. will utilize the award to create a novel computer vision architecture allowing robots to learn without rehearsal through corrections for real-world environmental details not present in training. This flexible...