CRI: Imaging and Non-Imaging Sensor Laboratory for Urban Disaster Management

该项目为一个实验室配备了一系列传感设备，以开展城市灾害管理研究，重点是收集、整合和分析来自视频和其他传感器的数据。该实验室由成像和非成像传感器组成，促进涉及传感器网络、视频处理、通信和网络的跨学科研究。这种设施使合作能够导致算法的发展，其新颖性在于传感器输出的紧密集成，以最大限度地利用信息。这种整合应导致一种更全面的方法来了解灾害环境，并能够为应急人员提供更好的决策支持系统。主要研究四个问题：网络协议、视频数据处理（主要是运动跟踪和行为建模）、数据压缩和不同阶段的数据融合。更广泛的影响：该项目制定了一个框架，将现有的灾害管理方法与新的传感器和通信技术相结合，以提供有关灾害环境的最新信息。这项工作通过加强向应急人员提供的信息的类型和处理，解决了普遍存在的灾害管理问题，因此有望产生高度的社会影响。

This project, instrumenting a laboratory with a range of sensory devices to enable research on urban disaster management, focuses on collecting, integrating, and analyzing data from video and other sensors. The lab consists of imaging and non-imaging sensors that facilitate interdisciplinary research involving sensor networks, video processing, communications, and networking. Such facility enables collaborations leading to the development of algorithms whose novelty lies in the tight integration of the output of the sensors for maximum information exploitation. This integration should lead to a more holistic approach to understanding the disaster environment and enable providing better decision support systems for emergency personnel. The research focuses on four problems:-Networking protocols,-Video data processing (mainly motion tracking and behavior modeling),-Data compression, and-Data fusion at different stages.Broader Impact: The project develops a framework that integrates existing methods of disaster management with new sensors and communication technology to provide a more current and up-to-date information of the disaster environment. The work addresses the prevalent problem of disaster management by enhancing the type and processing of information to the emergency personnel, hence the expectation of high societal impact.