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Edge-enabled Disaster Rescue: A Case Study of Searching for Missing People

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Ziming ZhaoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Volume 10, Issue 6

Article No.: 63, Pages 1 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/3331146

Published: 06 December 2019 Publication History

Abstract

In the aftermath of earthquakes, floods, and other disasters, photos are increasingly playing more significant roles, such as finding missing people and assessing disasters, in rescue and recovery efforts. These disaster photos are taken in real time by the crowd, unmanned aerial vehicles, and wireless sensors. However, communications equipment is often damaged in disasters, and the very limited communication bandwidth restricts the upload of photos to the cloud center, seriously impeding disaster rescue endeavors. Based on edge computing, we propose Echo, a highly time-efficient disaster rescue framework. By utilizing the computing, storage, and communication abilities of edge servers, disaster photos are preprocessed and analyzed in real time, and more specific visuals are immensely helpful for conducting emergency response and rescue. This article takes the search for missing people as a case study to show that Echo can be more advantageous in terms of disaster rescue. To greatly conserve valuable communication bandwidth, only significantly associated images are extracted and uploaded to the cloud center for subsequent facial recognition. Furthermore, an adaptive photo detector is designed to utilize the precious and unstable communication bandwidth effectively, as well as ensure the photo detection precision and recall rate. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method are demonstrated by simulation experiments.

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ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology Volume 10, Issue 6

Special Section on Intelligent Edge Computing for Cyber Physical and Cloud Systems and Regular Papers

November 2019

267 pages

ISSN:2157-6904

EISSN:2157-6912

DOI:10.1145/3368406

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Published: 06 December 2019

Accepted: 01 May 2019

Revised: 01 April 2019

Received: 01 January 2019

Published in TIST Volume 10, Issue 6

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