Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Airport Security? - iHLS

A startup will develop a proof-of-concept for an artificial intelligence (AI)-based object recognition capability for the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), that could greatly enhance security checkpoint operations. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $199,961.29 to Synthetik Applied Technologies, for a solution that "proposes an advancement to three-dimensional (3D) object recognition" said Melissa Oh, S&T's Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Managing Director. "The solution has many applications to DHS use-cases that we have not yet fully explored." The focus of this development is a capability using real-time voxel-wise instance segmentation to detect objects during property screening in airports. A voxel is a unit of measurement in a 3D image--a 3D pixel--and object segmentation is the problem of delineating each object of interest in an image.