A mechanism of `` DroneAid '' that automatically recognizes disaster rescue requests with drones is revolutionary
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Drones, unlike helicopters and satellites, can quickly and cheaply take aerial photographs and movies, and are becoming a tool that plays an important role in disaster relief and other situations. Using such a drone, IBM has released an open source library of ' DroneAid ' that recognizes SOS messages of victims from movies shot by the drone.
Automate post-disaster checks and foster offline communication – IBM Developer
https://developer.ibm.com/patterns/automate-post-disaster-checks-and-foster-offline-communication/
DroneAid / README.md at masterCode-and-Response / DroneAidGitHub
https://github.com/Code-and-Response/DroneAid/blob/master/README.md
◆ What is DroneAid?
DroneAid, published by IBM, recognizes symbols representing SOS messages detected from aerial photographs. DroneAid uses the open source image annotation tool, Cloud Annotation, to learn visual recognition, and uses the object detection function to identify symbols such as 'SOS'.
The symbols recognized by DroneAid at the time of article creation are as follows. Survivors can ask for help using the following symbol kits or drawing each symbol on the ground or paper with chalk. The symbols are based on icons provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) .
The symbol SOS is used when you need immediate help, such as when you have a serious injury.
Use the following symbols when there is no major damage and all survivors are alive and need no special help.
The water drop symbol is used to signal a water shortage.
The symbol with a wheat-like picture is a symbol to convey a food shortage.
The following symbols indicate that shelters are needed, such as when a building collapses, leaving no place for victims to evacuate
The first aid kit is a symbol that tells you that some people are injured in the affected area and that they need first aid.
The symbol with a picture like a baby means that there are young children in the affected area.
The symbol on which the stick is drawn indicates that there is an elderly person in the affected area.
Movies containing SOS messages shot by drones are captured by streaming on the PC web application, and the SOS messages obtained from the captured images are totaled by the web application.
◆ How DroneAid was born
About the background of DroneAid's birth, developer Pedro Cruise talks in the following movie. Cruz was the winner of the
Call for Code: Introducing DroneAid, Puerto Rico hackathon winner-YouTube
Mr. Cruz came up with the idea of DroneAid from his experience at Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Cruise noticed that after Hurricane Maria left, she tried to visit her to check if she was alive.
Cruise flew his drone to his grandmother's house, and fortunately was able to confirm his safety. However, along the way, Cruise discovered SOS messages for water and food in various places. In Spanish, 'AGUA' means 'water' and 'COMIDA' means 'food'.
Looking at the victim's SOS messages, Cruise came up with the idea of automatically recognizing SOS messages with a drone using
Cruz envisions having symbols printed or hand-painted on something like a mat placed on roads or roofs in times of disaster. On the left side of the mat is a symbol, and on the right side is the number of households and people living in the area.
'We want to make the meaning of the symbol and how to use the mat available to the public before a disaster strikes, so that local residents have standardized mats for DroneAid,' said Cruz.
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