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Sensor-Based Deep Learning Applications for Enhancing Situational Awareness

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 5762

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, 12243 Athens, Greece
Interests: machine/deep learning; Internet of Things; wearable computing; signal processing
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of West Attica, 12244 Athens, Greece
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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, 12244 Aigaleo, Greece
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, climate change and human intervention have contributed to an ever-increasing need to safeguard critical resources from natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes and wildfires, while earthquakes are often triggering mass deterioration of urban networks. The rise of Deep Learning (DL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is promising to augment the capacity of first responders while being in the field, assisting them to process massive data from heterogeneous sensors and draw better inferences with better awareness of the situation. To this end, DL-based applications have been proposed over the years tο increase their situational awareness during an emergency by either monitoring their activity using wearable devices, including their mental (e.g., stress levels) and physical health status, or by extending their sensing (e.g., vision, smell) and environmental perception abilities with IoT sensors. However, there are several challenges including efficient sensor fusion, lack of data accuracy and reliability, low response time etc. Research papers reporting novel DL-driven sensor-based applications that will be used for disaster management are invited for submission to this Special Issue.

The scope and topic of this Special Issue includes but is not limited to:

  • Deep learning on biometric data;
  • Human/animal activity recognition using deep learning;
  • Behavioral (including mental and physical) detection and forecasting based on deep learning analysis of sensory information;
  • Deep learning on LiDAR/RADAR data for situational awareness;
  • Deep learning-based audio scene analysis;
  • Deep learning for camera-based (RGB-D, thermal, FLIR, etc.) surveillance systems;
  • Earthquake forecasting using deep learning;
  • Deep learning on environmental sensor data;
  • Applications of Deep Learning on extreme weather phenomena and climate change.

Dr. Panagiotis Kasnesis
Dr. Dimitrios G. Kogias
Dr. Stelios A. Mitilineos
Dr. Charalampos Z. Patrikakis
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Keywords

  • deep learning
  • wearables
  • sensor data
  • sensor fusion
  • computer vision
  • signal processing.

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A Survey of Deep Learning-Based Image Restoration Methods for Enhancing Situational Awareness at Disaster Sites: The Cases of Rain, Snow and Haze
by Sotiris Karavarsamis, Ioanna Gkika, Vasileios Gkitsas, Konstantinos Konstantoudakis and Dimitrios Zarpalas
Sensors 2022, 22(13), 4707; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22134707 - 22 Jun 2022
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This survey article is concerned with the emergence of vision augmentation AI tools for enhancing the situational awareness of first responders (FRs) in rescue operations. More specifically, the article surveys three families of image restoration methods serving the purpose of vision augmentation under [...] Read more.
This survey article is concerned with the emergence of vision augmentation AI tools for enhancing the situational awareness of first responders (FRs) in rescue operations. More specifically, the article surveys three families of image restoration methods serving the purpose of vision augmentation under adverse weather conditions. These image restoration methods are: (a) deraining; (b) desnowing; (c) dehazing ones. The contribution of this article is a survey of the recent literature on these three problem families, focusing on the utilization of deep learning (DL) models and meeting the requirements of their application in rescue operations. A faceted taxonomy is introduced in past and recent literature including various DL architectures, loss functions and datasets. Although there are multiple surveys on recovering images degraded by natural phenomena, the literature lacks a comprehensive survey focused explicitly on assisting FRs. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting existing methods in the literature, assessing their suitability for FR applications, and providing insights for future research directions. Full article
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