Overview Talk by Mike Geertsen, Program Manager for the DARPA VMR Program.
The DARPA Visual Media Reasoning Program [DoD News] was a multi-year [2012-2016], multi-million dollar project with an objective to create visual exploitation and indexing tools to rapidly extract mission-relevant visual intelligence from large quantities of diverse, ill-defined, unstructured imagery captured from multiple adversary sources.
I was the technical lead on the large-scale image clustering effort and developed novel algorithms to perform unsupervised clustering on millions of unstructured images and videos into inherent semantic groups that allowed fast discovery and search.