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Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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At tensorflight.com we are building deep learning model for hurricane Harvey damage segmentation. We already have 12K instances of partial building damage and 400 of total damage annotated and preliminary segmentation model is just being trained on 4 K80s. If you want to collaborate in any way please let me know at kozikow@tensorflight.com

Update: We also started annotating humans and animals.

Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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At tensorflight.com we are building deep learning model for hurricane Harvey damage segmentation. We already have 12K instances of partial building damage and 400 of total damage annotated and preliminary segmentation model is just being trained on 4 K80s. If you want to collaborate in any way please let me know at kozikow@tensorflight.com

Very interested in this work. What imagery source is even available this quick?

Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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I've said in the past, over a few beers, that instead of just switching the doodle over, google should integrate disaster images and video into google maps and allow people to see the damage first hand. The effect of spatializing this information is truly profound. I did not understand katrina until I visited the 9th ward and saw the damage myself. I've also said over beers that we need a system to aggregate disaster…

I wonder how much people would use it if they streamed drone footage and allowed people to flag possible items (people, pets, certain damage, etc.) and give them points for it. I'll bet a LOT of people would help.

Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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post #14
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At tensorflight.com we are building deep learning model for hurricane Harvey damage segmentation. We already have 12K instances of partial building damage and 400 of total damage annotated and preliminary segmentation model is just being trained on 4 K80s. If you want to collaborate in any way please let me know at kozikow@tensorflight.com

Very interested in this work. What imagery source is even available this quick?

We already got some post-Harvey drone imagery, but not much yet - government restricted civilian drones. So far, we primary have been annotating imagery from prior to catastrophe or other catastrophes.

Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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I've said in the past, over a few beers, that instead of just switching the doodle over, google should integrate disaster images and video into google maps and allow people to see the damage first hand. The effect of spatializing this information is truly profound. I did not understand katrina until I visited the 9th ward and saw the damage myself. I've also said over beers that we need a system to aggregate disaster…

Make crowd-sourced datasets public domain by default.

Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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My SO helped with the crowdsourced civilian effort to dispatch water rescues of stranded people. The effort is wound down now; it will likely be hailed as a coup of "social media", but that's overhyping the social media aspect. Social media got the word out of where to go online to enter the coordination, but had little to do with the actual coordination itself. The group my SO worked with coordinated mostly through…

Great post, one of the best this year.

It feels like there's really a role for a phone that does mapping and secure simple communications really welland limits resources to other tasks.

Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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I've said in the past, over a few beers, that instead of just switching the doodle over, google should integrate disaster images and video into google maps and allow people to see the damage first hand. The effect of spatializing this information is truly profound. I did not understand katrina until I visited the 9th ward and saw the damage myself. I've also said over beers that we need a system to aggregate disaster…

Real time drone control from your browser could have a similar effect, and even help find people who are stranded: http://cape.com

Re: Drones Are Speeding Hurricane Harvey Response

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My SO helped with the crowdsourced civilian effort to dispatch water rescues of stranded people. The effort is wound down now; it will likely be hailed as a coup of "social media", but that's overhyping the social media aspect. Social media got the word out of where to go online to enter the coordination, but had little to do with the actual coordination itself. The group my SO worked with coordinated mostly through…

Great points! I think tiny fraction of those points were meant to be solved with (crisischeckin)[https://github.com/HTBox/crisischeckin] from HTBox, however it doesn't seem to be in active development right now. It seems to me that coordination is key in such situation, I wonder to what level it could be 'automated' by the application so perhaps a human coordinator role can be offloaded as much as possible, so even untrained people can benefit from the app.
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