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* Predators fly on iraq routes. E.g. look for people planting IEDs. Need to define activity (someone putting something in the ground). Need to datamine the movies taken in order to pick out dangerous activities.
* Examples of activities: regular vs irregular, cars doing U-turns, loitering, patterns of motion of vehicles near facilities.
* Caltech could bring in results on point-based tracking and develop incremental learning of patches and time-series
* UIUC could contribute visual patches, organize knowledge base ...
* Utopia Compression - 

Utopia Compression's list of topics
* Representations: from fine-grained to coarse-grained events
* Knowledge assimilation (from data to datasets)
* Knowledge representation methods that are scalable
* Link analysis - link events: are they related or not? (Grummann objects to this item - seems too advanced)
* Inferencing over historical data



THEY NEED
* Size of effort in order to come up with budgets for phases 1 and 2
* Bullets on our capabilities