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General
Dynamics Information Systems uses dtSearch
Engine in Multimedia Analysis and Archive System.
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General
Dynamics Information Systems uses dtSearch Engine in
Multimedia Analysis and Archive System
The Multimedia Analysis and Archive System (MAAS) provides
the tactical analyst with the capability to capture
and exploit the wide variety of multimedia data received
in the tactical environment. The original digitised
data and the exploited results are stored in a database.
A query interface to the database allows any user connected
to MAAS to perform keyword and content searches on the
saved analysis information to retrieve multimedia data.
MAAS
was designed with tactical analysts' inputs, and MAAS
enhancements include tactical analysts' reviews. The
analyst' interface was designed to support the realities
of short tours of duties and frequent rotations of today
's tactical analysts. Microsoft Windows(R) NT provides
the operational environment and Microsoft Office(R)
97 is for the analysis reporting and product generation.
A minimum training period is required for an analyst
to be immediately productive. The training period is
typically less than a day. Training and help documentation
are available on-line.
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Information
provided courtesy of General Dynamics
Information Systems.
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MAAS supports the digitisation and exploitation of a wide
variety of multimedia data types that the tactical analyst
may receive today:
" Video broadcasts, including UAV and television
" Hi-8, VHS and S-VHS analogue tape
" Digital images from a wide range of sources
" Digital documents
" Scanned hardcopy reports and photographs
For example, a video broadcast is digitised and MPEG1
encoded in real time. The MPEG1 video is immediately available
to the analyst for exploitation even during the continued
digitisation and encoding of the continuing video broadcast.
The video broadcast of a UAV mission is an example of
the need to digitise and encode a video broadcast in real
time and exploit the digital data immediately. (The UAV
ephemeris/telemetry data, if available, is also correlated
with the digital UAV video and used to support the exploitation
of the UAV video.)
MAAS is scalable and configurable in many dimensions:
" Parallel data capture streams
" Types of multimedia data
" Number of analysts' workstations
" Exploitation applications
" Processing performance
" Standalone system to a networked system
" Depth of the on-line storage
" Depth of the near line storage archive
MAAS consists of four major capabilities: Capture, Information
Management, Analysis and WEB Interface, Figure 1.
The Capture capability provides the ability to capture
the raw data either by digitising and encoding an analogue
signal or importing digital data already digitised and
encoded. In the near future, MPEG2 video will be supported
and an interface to export and import NITF files from
and to MAAS will be available. The Capture capability
is designed to be adaptable to support new data types
and data sources.
The Information Management capability provides the relational
database, the content search engine, the on-line storage
and the archive. The on-line storage is scalable from
9 GB to greater than 1 TB. The archive supports a variety
of near-line and off-line storage capabilities.
The Analysis capability of MAAS allows the tactical analyst
to enter mission information for the captured data including
comments, mission description and latitude and longitude.
MAAS allows the tactical analyst to easily associate ancillary
data files of different data types with the video and
image data. Ancillary data, including other video data,
may be associated with a particular video clip or a specific
frame of the video. The analyst searches the database
using keyword and content queries.
The Analysis capability also allows the tactical analyst
to produce contemporary multimedia products derived from
the multimedia data contained within the database. The
analysis products are created using formats such as MPEG1
video, JPEG and GIFF images, and documents in html, MS
Word(R) and MS PowerPoint(R)
formats. The analysis products may be distributed through
Information Management, the WEB Interface and/or on CD-R.
Video clips and images may also be exported from MAAS
into non-linear video editing software applications to
create analogue
videotapes.
The WEB Interface consists of the WEB server and a WEB
browser interface to allow local and remote users access
to the MAAS multimedia information using a standard WEB
browser -- Netscape(R) and Internet Explorer(R). The browser interface allows a WEB
user to query with keyword and content searches for particular
information. If the accessed data contains video, the
WEB interface provides the user with a dynamic interface.
This dynamic interface allows the user to view subsets
of the video including thumbnails and short video clips.
MAAS provides the tactical analyst with the ability to
capture, manage, exploit and disseminate contemporary
multimedia analysis information in a very scalable architecture
taking advantage of very contemporary commercial hardware
and software products.
For more information, please contact:
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
1421 Jefferson Davis Highway
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22202
Main
Number: (703) 271-7300
Fax Number: (703) 271-7301
www.gd-ais.com
Specifications subject to change without notice. ©General
Dynamics Information Systems Windows(R)
NT, Office(R)
97, Explorer (R)
are all trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Netscape(R)
is a registered trademark of Netscape Corporation.
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