Low-Cost Gunshot Detection System with Localization for Community Based Violence Interruption
Low-Cost Gunshot Detection System with Localization for Community Based Violence Interruption
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10.1109/dsaa60987.2023.10302469
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2023-10
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Isaac Manring;James H. Hill;George O. Mohler;P. Brantingham;Thomas Williams;Bruce White
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作者:
Isaac Manring;James H. Hill;George O. Mohler;P. Brantingham;Thomas Williams;Bruce White
There is growing interest in U.S. cities to shift resources towards community-led solutions to crime and disorder. However, there is a simultaneous need to provide community organizations with access to real-time data to facilitate decision making, to which only the police normally have access. In this work we present a low-cost gunshot detection system with localization that has been developed for community-based violence interruption. The distributed real-time gunshot detection sensor network is linked to a mobile phone-based alert and tasking system for exclusive use by civilian gang interventionists. Here we present details on the system architecture and gunshot detection model, which consists of an Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) neural network. We then combine gradient maps of the input to the AST for time of arrival identification with a Bayesian maximum a posteriori estimation procedure to identify the location of gunshots. We conduct several experiments using simulated data, open data from the commercial ShotSpotter detection system in Pittsburgh, and data collected using our devices during live-fire experiments at the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) gun firing range. We then discuss potential applications of the system and directions for future research.