Voice-based victim searching in disaster-stricken areas using drones

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This is a joint meeting of the UTSA Student Branch, the RAS Chapter and the SMC/AES/SYSC Chapter

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  • UTSA
  • San Antonio, Texas
  • United States 78249
  • Building: HEB Student Union Building (HSU)
  • Room Number: Travis Room (HSU 2.202)
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  • Starts 20 October 2022 01:00 PM UTC
  • Ends 04 November 2022 01:00 AM UTC
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Dr. Premachandra of Shibaura Institute of Technology

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Voice-based victim searching in disaster-stricken areas using drones

Drone searches for victims in disaster-stricken areas have been mainly conducted by analyzing images from cameras mounted on drones. But in disaster-stricken areas, victims may not be able to recognize victims from images, due to situations such as being covered in sediment and debris. Therefore, as a method of searching for victims who are not captured by the camera, a method of determining the location of the victim by mounting a microphone device on a drone and detecting human voices from the collected sound is being studied. This talk will discuss the approaches of searching disaster victims by voice processing and related automatic flight control technologies for the searching activities.

Biography:

Chinthaka Premachandra (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Sri Lanka. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu, Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2011.


He is a Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Manager of the Image Processing and Robotic Laboratory. His research interests include AI, UAV, Image processing, Audio processing, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Mobile Robotics.


In addition to IEEE, Dr. Premachandra is also a member of IEICE, Japan; SICE, Japan; RSJ, Japan; and SOFT, Japan. He received the IEEE Sensors Letters Best Paper Award from the IEEE Sensors Council in 2022, and IEEE Japan medal from the IEEE Tokyo section in 2022. He also received the FIT Best Paper Award and the FIT Young Researchers Award from IEICE and IPSJ, Japan, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. He has served many international conferences and journals as a Steering Committee Member and an Editor, respectively. He is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters(R-AL) and IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. He is the Founding Chair of the International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB) which is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE.

 

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