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Tentacle TM - 3D Immersive Surveillance System
Primordial’s Tentacle software reduces operator overload by fusing multiple sensor feeds
into a single 3D surveillance display, leveraging NASA World Wind for 3D rendering.
The development of the Tentacle project is currently being funded with an Air Force
Research Laboratory (AFRL) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase II contract.
Tentacle supports entity tracking from static surveillance cameras, and during phase II
it will be updated to also supported moving cameras e.g. from unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) or unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).
The entities extracted from these videos are automatically placed into a single threedimensional
(3D) display so that one analyst will be able to effectively monitor dozens of
cameras. Tentacle’s World Wind-based 3D display includes imagery, terrain, buildings,
and avatars representing entities such as people and vehicles. During phase II the avatars
will be updated, likely using 3D Collada models embedded in World Wind, in order to
provide a more realistic representation of the tracked entities.
Tentacle also supports analyzing behavior and providing alerts (e.g. crossed tripwire or
abandoned bag), and it is being updated in phase II with additional behavior analytics,
improved capabilities for extracting metadata (e.g. person versus vehicle, upper color, and
lower color), support for performing real-time queries (e.g. highlight people wearing red
shirts), as well as archived queries of video and metadata.
For this project, Primordial has teamed with intuVision, All Hazards Management (AHM),
and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). intuVision is a leader in surveillance camera
tracking and alerts, CMU provides expertise in tracking vehicles from UAVs including the
Raven, and AHM is assisting with development for the 3D display.
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