Commercial Space Week 2023 – Chris Dorsey, March 17th, 2023 Commercial Space Week (CSW), is a premier gathering for industry experts and researchers to discuss both on-planet and off-planet solutions to improve our space travel infrastructure and software. It includes the Space Mobility Conference, SpaceCom, and Global Spaceport Summit. Quidient exhibited at the Space…
Air Force Partnership: Aircraft Surface Inspection Automated Visual Inspection & Database Maintenance Software (AVID) Columbia, Maryland, 11/03/2022 – Quidient announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a Direct to Phase II SBIR contract in the amount of $1.25M focused on automated visual inspection of aircraft exterior surfaces to investigate its potential to fill…
Quidient Awarded SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Contract Quidient has been awarded a Phase 1 STTR under the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Program. Columbia, Maryland, 9/20/2022 – Quidient announces it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a STTR Phase I in the amount of $250,000 to investigate how its Generalized Scene Reconstruction platform, Quidient Reality®, might enable…
Air Force Partnership: Engine Bay Inspection Automated Aircraft Engine Bay Inspections Using 3D+ Software Platform Columbia, Maryland, 9/15/2022 – Quidient announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase II project in the amount of $750K focused on Generalized Scene Reconstruction to investigate its potential to fill capability gaps in the Department…
Quidient Receives Half Million TEDCO Investment – Stara Diamond, September 20th, 2022 TEDCO (Maryland Technology Development Corporation) offers funding and resources for Maryland’s growing technology and life sciences companies. Quidient is honored to have received a half million-dollar investment from TEDCO, led by Tim Wilson, Seed Fund Manager. Investments like this one help Quidient build…
A History of Pride through Images (Both 2D and 3D) – Scott Ackerson, June 14, 2022 Pride began in stark black and white in 1970, for the first anniversary of the uprising at Stonewall. A group of pride marchers from Northwestern University hold up a sign saying "Gay Liberation." June 1, 1970, Wikimedia Commons As…
Overview Using our dented “mini-hood” and our Quidient Reality™ prototype, we previously demonstrated the ability to create 3D dent profiles from a single image that measured within 28-micron RMSE in comparison to a highly accurate Zeiss Comet structured light system. We also provided a method for using this measured profile to determine a reference size…
Overview To test the profile measuring accuracy of Quidient Reality™ as a hail dent recorder, we built a ½-scale automotive panel (“mini-hood”) using metals and automotive finishes comparable to a typical automobile. We dented the panel to simulate hail damage. Next, we contracted with a third-party company to measure the mini-hood using a highly accurate…
1. Introduction Vehicle dent measurement is one of many applications of Quidient’s Scene Reconstruction and Processing Engine technology. A dent is a feature of a surface that can be sensed, represented and processed like other features. Referring to Figure 1 and Figure 2, this document describes concepts of dent measurement in vehicle panels and describes…
Columbia, MD. March, 2019 /QuidientNewsWire/ Quidient announces the opening of its new technology center in Columbia, Maryland. In its 2016 article entitled Best Places to Live, Money Magazine named Columbia ‘the ultimate hometown in America.” Team members working at the Tech Center will have reasonable commutes from parts of Washington D.C., MD; Annapolis, MD; Baltimore,…