AIMES^™ Software

Leidos AIMES PICTE captures MPEG transport streams transmitted over a network via unicast or multicast. It supports multiple video, audio, and metadata standards in real-time, offering the ability to condition and enhance streams before sending them to AIMES Exploit, AIMES Server, and 3rd party applications for wider dissemination.  All feed setup, configuration, monitoring, and distribution is done via a convenient web-based user interface that is also accessible to the analysts through AIMES. It provides real-time full motion video (FMV) processing, aligning with the standards and profiles established by the Motion Imagery Standards Board (MISB), Motion Imagery Standards Profile (MISP) and Closed-Caption (CC) Metadata Processing, and video metric generation and distribution.

AIMES PICTE uses open architecture to easily allow information collected through the processing pipeline to be distributed on an enterprise scale or locally to third-party applications. AIMES PICTE can interact with third-party applications to add, configure, update, start, stop, and delete missions without the user interface to allow for automation and streamlining of setup. AIMES PICTE can support multiple feeds to handle a normal mission load and is easily scaled into a clustered or “hub” setup to account for extreme mission loads.

Technical Specifications

• Formats Supported
  • MPEG2 Transport Stream (MPEG2TS)
  • Standard Definition (SD) video
  • High Definition (HD) video
  • MPEG-2
  • H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 / MPEG-4 AVC
  • H.265 / HEVC / MPEG-H Part 2
  • MISP Key Length Value (KLV) metadata
  • Closed Caption (CC) metadata (EIA-608, CEA- 708)
  • Cursor on Target (CoT)
  • NATO STANAG 4609 Digital ATSC
  • Analog NTSC
  • Analog PAL
  • HD-SDI
• MISB Standards
  • MISB Standard 0102
  • MISB Engineering Guideline 0104
  • MISB Standard 0601
  • MISB Standard 0903

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Leidos AIMES Server catalogs, indexes, and stores MISP compliant video slice files and NITF images from AIMES PICTE. AIMES Server uses Key Length Value (KLV) metadata in each slice to temporally synchronize the video with additional data available to the Server.  The AIMES Server database is used to store, index, and correlate (both temporally and Geo-spatially) the data associated with:

• AIMES PICTE Active feed messages.
• Motion Imagery Standard Profile (MISP) compliant video slices.
• Video Motion Target Indicator (VMTI) data (MISB 0903 data).
• National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) compliant still imagery files.   

AIMES Server supports local storage, Network Attached Storage (NAS) and/or cloud storage (Amazon S3) and supports distributed database technologies (NoSQL).  This allows customers to dynamically add and remove server nodes and storage when their system grows, experiences a failover condition, or connects/disconnects from a larger enterprise infrastructure.  This flexible architecture enables customers to scale their cloud-based, virtualized, or bare metal infrastructures while maintaining the seamless “one-stop” discovery, and playback experience intelligence analysts need.

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Leidos AIMES Exploit provides real-time screening and exploitation of imagery and data with the ability to query, retrieve, replay, and exploit complete archived missions. It provides the user with the ability to tag key events within live or archived video via text or audio callout messages and slant counts that are stored in the database.

Our latest version provides integration with STEPOne speech-to-text software and offers enhanced situational awareness tools to our customers with a new Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Viewer and Video Moving Target Indicator (VMTI) tool. Our new GEOINT Viewer enables third-party Web Map Service (WMS) support, allows users to see tracks, stare-point, and data layers that brings near-real-time (NRT) context to the mission. The VMTI tool parses and visualizes MISB 903 object detection data enabling Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and Structured Observation Management (SOM) analysis and reporting paradigms.

Video Processing Pipeline (VPP), an all-new component of the AIMES suite, allows dynamic configuration of an end-to-end video processing flow that can be used to transform a stream before rebroadcast, system ingest, or within the end user’s client environment. This approach enables customers to configure their own custom video processing stream leveraging one or more algorithms to rapidly integrate new sensors or analytics. AIMES VPP adds super-resolution image scaling, video stabilization, transcoding, data conditioning, burn-in removal, and advanced analytical processing to AIMES Exploit. When combined with AIMES PICTE, customers can create and distribute special enhanced versions of their feeds across the entire enterprise.

Key Features

• Real-time playback, recording, and exploitation of multiple live feeds
• H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) and H.265 (MPEG-H Part 2)
• HD and 4K support
• HTML5 and MPEG-DASH support
• Annotated products in multiple formats
• National Imagery Transmissions Format (NITF) output
• GEOINT Viewer with Esri^® ArcGIS and third-party WMS support
• Super-resolution image upscaling
• Work Tray to facilitate workflow

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Leidos AIMES Restream allows the user to simulate multiple live data feeds of MISP compliant motion imagery transmitted over standard networks via User Data Protocol (UDP)/Internet Protocol (IP) unicast or multicast. AIMES Restream also controls the rate of transmission to accurately mimic the original feed without overwhelming networking equipment or downstream consumers.

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Leidos AIMES Reflector allows the user to redirect User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data streams from one Internet Protocol (IP) address/port number to another IP/port number. AIMES Reflector supports incoming and outgoing unicast or multicast UDP streams and TCP client/server data streams. It gives users the ability to intercept and redirect data (including streaming video) on different local networks for consumption and can also provide the ability to cast between locations (by way of the TCP protocol).

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