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 correct the stream before sending it to workstations for exploitation and a database for archival. 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. For general users, AIMES PICTE is configured and controlled from a web-based thin client for all Command and Control (C2) and metric visualization. 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 is a flexible and extensible 64-bit video exploitation application that enables third-party web-based capabilities to interact with the core GPU-enabled application through an embedded browser engine and JavaScript API/SDK (Software Development Kit).  This technology enables customers to rapidly incorporate new capabilities (such as automated report and product creation workflows from the Unified Collection Operation Reporting Network (UNICORN) tool) into the exploitation environment without incurring costly integration or recertification expenses.

AIMES Exploit brings enhanced situational awareness tools to the customer with a new Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Viewer and Video Moving Target Indicator (VMTI) track and target visualizer and filtering 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. Our new VMTI tool parses and visualizes MISB 903 object detection data enabling Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and Structured Observation Management (SOM) analysis and reporting paradigms.

AIMES Exploit is able to replay missions via the AIMES Server Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Dash (MPD) generation capability and able to create, update, read, and delete textual representations of audio callout messages stored in the database.  The translated audio callout messages are generated through the use of the AFRL STEPOne client application.

Additional capabilities with AIMES Video Processing Pipeline (VPP) include super-resolution image scaling, video multiplexing, transcoding, data conditioning, and advanced analytical processing that 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 that can leverage one or more Leidos or third-party algorithms to rapidly integrate new sensors or analytics.

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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