Cognika Briefing

Michael [email protected] (2437)

“Between 2001 and 2015 we will see a 70,000% increase in the areas under surveillance—all captured in motionvideo intelligence—yielding Yottabytes of video data.” - The Economist, 27 Feb 2010

NGA is currently storing over 20 million minutesof motion imagery

The Need

Cognika Provides “Automated” PED Now!

"The Army's ability to collect information far outpaces its ability to use the information collected" --‐ Lt Gen Richard P. Zahner

"We don't have enough time to discover data anymore. Especially when we are putting wide-areasurveillance into country rapidly right now. We have to increase discover ability. We have to allowthat analyst sitting on the ground looking at this massive amount of data, he or she does not havetime to sift through all this stuff."--‐ Gen. Koziol

"Today an analyst sits there and stares at Death TV for hours on end trying to find the single targetor see something move or see something do something that makes it a valid target. It is just a waste of manpower. It is inefficient." --‐ Gen. Cartwright

"Analysts spend 80% of their time researching, and only 20% of their time actually thinking aboutwhat that research means. Analysts need more time thinking and less time sifting" --‐ Gen. Vincent Stewart

"We're not going to manpower our way out of this, we desperately need more automated tools." --‐ Maj Gen James Poss

“Not Enough Eyeballs, Not Enough Pipes, Not Enough Disks”

Projected Personnel Requirements

● Current “imagery-centric” models and methodologies or traditional imagery analysis and storage do not scale to handle volume and velocity of FMV and other “INT” data currently being captured and stored world-wide

● Number of analysts required to exploit imagery using traditional methods would be infeasible

● Existing data storage constructs and bandwidth limitations do not support war fighters’ needs nor analysts ability to keep up with required information

Cognika Provides “Automated” PED Now!

Source: National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency “NGA's Initiatives to Improve Motion Imagery Usage” [27-28]

17 November 2010

PED: Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination

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SolutionFind, Analyze, and View All Data Sets

● Multiple Media○ FMV

■ Searches INSIDE Video for Data○ Documents

■ PDF, HTML, MS Office, etc.○ Text

■ Metadata○ HUMINT/SIGINT○ Images

● Google-like Queries

○ “White Van AND Man”○ Activity: Digging

● Scalable

Manage Information, Not Drown in it

Automated Approach Searches, Analyzes and Utilizes ALL Types of Data

● Reduces Analysts time Spent Searching for Relevant Data

● Assists Analysts in Finding Relevant Patterns inside Multiple Data Formats

● Creates an Automated Data Management Tool

● Simple and Accurate Output Leads to Time Sensitive Ability to Pursue Actionable Results

● Accessible from laptops, mobile devices, PCs etc.

Cognika Solution

Powerful Toolkit for Querying and Interpretation

Object Identification(White SUV)

Activity(Men Digging)

Metadata(Time, Location, Etc)

Flexible Customizable System

Man Walking Man WalkingWith Weapon

Activity Detection Within Real Time Video

CIDS can discern between men walking and men walking with weapon. Robust system which limits rate of false positives

Real-Time AlertsEmail/Text Intercept

Call Intercept

HUMINT

UAV Video

Forensic Analysis

Intelligence Assessments

REAL TIME Alerts and Analysis Utilizing all INT

● Machine Learning● Latent Semantics● Reduce False

Positives● Incremental

Heuristic Search

Extracting and Analyzing ContentFor All Available Data Files

● Brings Real Time Intel to the Tactical Edge○ Near Real Time Indexing of ANY Data that s/w Accesses

■ Alleviates the need for Large Centralized Storage■ Makes Data Input Instantly Available to All Users■ Index As-is, Where-Is

● Works on Inexpensive Commodity Hardware

● CIDS OMNIX Searches Large Scale Data Sets

○ Architecture Based on Proven Commercial Scaling Methods■ Map-Reduce, as successfully utilized by AOL, Netflix etc.

● Light Bandwidth Requirement

○ Move Data As-Needed, When-Needed○ XML, XSLT, JSON, PHP etc. Output formats ○ Caching Avoids Redundant Data Transfers

■ Saves Bandwidth & Speeds Access

Key System Features

The System

Training: Query for ‘Men Gathering’

● Streamlined, Google-like interface

● Active monitoring chart

● Database of “machine learned” activities, etc.

● Simple point and click training for analysts

Men Gathering AND Ramadi/Baquba

System Usage

Men AND Truck

Man AND Weapon

Men Gathering

Men Gathering AND Ramadi/Baquba

Men GatheringRamadi, Al-Anbar Province08/22/11 22:04:13 – 22:05:09Five unidentified men leaving building, walking down street.Note: Known Bomb Maker at Location Man AND WeaponRamadi, Al-Anbar Province08/09/11 02:48:18 - 03:52:42Unidentified man walking down streetNote: Man Digging and Weapon

Men AND TruckBaquba, Diyala Province07/28/11 23:38:04 - 23:39:19Five unidentified men walking, enter vehicleNote: Vehicle of Interest Tracked to Location

Geo-locationIntel ReportsImageryVideoNews

● Real Time Cross-Media Search, Discovery and Analysis○ Searches and Extracts Data from Inside FMV, HUMINT/SIGINT/Text/PDF

etc○ Automated Real Time Indexing of ALL Data

● Simple Training + Interface – No Intel Expertise Required

● Web-based, Desktop , Mobile Access Methods

● Open, Simple API ○ (REST or SOAP)

● Petascale Capabilities

Summary of Capabilities

● Real-Time FMV Search● Forensic Search● Change Detection● Multi INT Capabilities● Persistent Surveillance ● Internet Exploitation● Information Operations● Incremental Heuristic Search● Intelligent Detection

○ Activity○ Object

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