G. Cruz, Aaron Litonjua, Alysia Noreen P. San Juan, Nathaniel J. C. Libatique, Marion Ivan L. Tan, J. L. E. Honrado
{"title":"Motorcycle and Vehicle Detection for Applications in Road Safety and Traffic Monitoring Systems","authors":"G. Cruz, Aaron Litonjua, Alysia Noreen P. San Juan, Nathaniel J. C. Libatique, Marion Ivan L. Tan, J. L. E. Honrado","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910992","url":null,"abstract":"Motorcycles are becoming increasingly common in middle to low-income countries as cheaper alternatives to fourwheeled vehicles. The reliance on motorcycle-based services has also seen a substantial increase in popularity, leading to a greater proportion of motorcycles on the road. The increase in motorcycle reliance necessitates a need for motorcycle-inclusive road information generation as motorcycles are the most susceptible to fatal road crashes. We report the results of our application of the You Only Look Once (YOLOv4) algorithm to count and classify vehicles and motorcycles in traffic videos obtained by our group over a three-month period along Katipunan Avenue Southbound (KAS), Metro Manila. This has been made to run in real-time with video and is able to process a video output with its annotations and a counter for both classes. These results show that a motorcycle and vehicle detection and counting system can be feasibly considered for data-driven road safety and traffic monitoring systems.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132401355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remote Crop Disease Detection Using Deep Learning with IoT","authors":"Ivy Chung, Anoushka Gupta, T. Ogunfunmi","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910991","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is such a vital part of our society, and according to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), plant diseases are considered one of the two main causes of decreasing food availability. This paper explores not only the methods and findings of building a CNN disease detection model, but that of building a deployable remote crop disease detection system incorporating IoT technology, a task that has not been published before. By using transfer learning with AlexNet, we were able to predict with 89.8% accuracy tomato plant images into one of the ten pre-defined disease classes. Our proposed system tracks plant health throughout the day by using a microprocessor and a camera to automatically capture images, diagnose the plant, and report results. The system is a proof of concept of a technology that can significantly help increase crop yield, reduce food waste, and automate the tasks of detecting and caring for diseased crops.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131314413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Kulat, Mariappan Sakkan, Prachin Jain, Sanat Sarangi, S. Pappula
{"title":"Assessment of Emissions with Carbon-smart Farming Practices and Participatory Sensing in Rice","authors":"R. Kulat, Mariappan Sakkan, Prachin Jain, Sanat Sarangi, S. Pappula","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910612","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions especially in the conventional rice ecosystem with carbon-insensitive practices. In this study, we assess the carbon footprint of selected farms based on GHG emissions and carbon sequestration from recommended agricultural practices with a human participatory sensing approach. A set of ten selected farmers was split into two groups and asked to follow carbon-smart crop protocols (CSCP) called CSCP-1 and CSCP-2. With the digitally captured record of operations, process modelling was used to simulate the CSCP scenarios followed on the ground, and a classification model was developed to estimate the Nitrogen uptake to improve fertilizer utilization for farmers. For various potential scenarios involving variation in irrigation and fertilizer application, impact on GHG emissions and SOC dynamics was evaluated. Results showed that CSCP-1 farmers emitted more GHGs when compared to CSCP-2 farmers while they also sequestrated more carbon in comparison with no significant difference in Net GWP (Global Warming Potential). CSCP farmers with both flood irrigation and furrow irrigation sequestrated more carbon than farmers who would follow conventional practices. Net GWP of CSCP farmers was significantly lower than conventional farmers indicating carbon-smart practices can indeed make a significant difference in sustainability initiatives.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128833091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sowmya Rasipuram, Anutosh Maitra, Bishal Shaw, S. Saha
{"title":"Towards Generating Contextual and Empathetic Response for Covid-related Queries","authors":"Sowmya Rasipuram, Anutosh Maitra, Bishal Shaw, S. Saha","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910984","url":null,"abstract":"This work addresses the vital need of keeping people informed with relevant, correct and essential information during the pandemic. Advanced NLP and machine learning mechanisms have been leveraged to generate responses to user queries through contextual conversation. In order to help people be discerning about what information they receive, a conversational system is proposed that identifies the correct intent of the query and a reinforcement Learning based generation model is used to proceed with conversation. We propose an end-to-end real-time text generation model that can respond to users queries on covid19. We created a new dataset with 1200+ covid-related questions from various sources and pre-processed them for a brief and direct answer. The dataset has also been manually observed to identify depressed questions and the responses are converted to be more empathetic. The dataset has been used to fine-tune DailoGPT, a GPT2-based transformer model to generate the responses related to COVID. COVID-related queries are bucketed into 15 categories to identify the exact intent of people. Our model generated both contextual and empathetic responses and achieved a human evaluation score of 3.48 (on a scale of 5) in terms of contextual relevance and a score of 2.12 (on a scale of 3).","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131106262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lisa J. Einstein, Robert J. Moss, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
{"title":"Prioritizing emergency evacuations under compounding levels of uncertainty","authors":"Lisa J. Einstein, Robert J. Moss, Mykel J. Kochenderfer","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910611","url":null,"abstract":"Well-executed emergency evacuations can save lives and reduce suffering. However, decision makers struggle to determine optimal evacuation policies given the chaos, uncertainty, and value judgments inherent in emergency evacuations. We propose and analyze a decision support tool for pre-crisis training exercises for teams preparing for civilian evacuations and explore the tool in the case of the 2021 U.S.-led evacuation from Afghanistan. We use different classes of Markov decision processes (MDPs) to capture compounding levels of uncertainty in (1) the priority category of who appears next at the gate for evacuation, (2) the distribution of priority categories at the population level, and (3) individuals’ claimed priority category. We compare the number of people evacuated by priority status under eight heuristic policies. The optimized MDP policy achieves the best performance compared to all heuristic baselines. We also show that accounting for the compounding levels of model uncertainty incurs added complexity without improvement in policy performance. Useful heuristics can be extracted from the optimized policies to inform human decision makers. We opensource all tools to encourage robust dialogue about the trade-offs, limitations, and potential of integrating algorithms into high-stakes humanitarian decision-making.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133899341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kenny Meesters, J.M.M. Wijnen, Mats Visser, K. Boersma
{"title":"The Challenge and Value of Dashboard Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Kenny Meesters, J.M.M. Wijnen, Mats Visser, K. Boersma","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910610","url":null,"abstract":"Decision makers in crisis situations need relevant, accurate and complete information. Today, technologies provide a plethora of options for generating, accumulating and processing information. Technologies also enable that information to be managed and presented through dashboards. Recent emergencies have precipitated a surge in the use of dashboards, a prime example of these developments. In particular, for the duration of the crisis, the availability of large quantities of information and the demand for a more holistic approach to emergency responses incentivized the development of(digital) dashboards. However, the design of such dashboards requires costly investments, especially during when resources are scarce during crises. In this paper, we examine the development of dashboards as part of the response to COVID19 in the Netherlands. We explore the motivation for developing different dashboards and the added value that accrues to emergency services in times of crisis.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114168702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selection of multicriteria decision analysis methods for electrification projects in rural Sub-Sahara Africa – A case study in Niger","authors":"Julian Huwer, Georg Frey, R. Bhandari","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9911026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9911026","url":null,"abstract":"Electrification of rural areas is seen as an important step to reach sustainable development goals (SDG) in Sub-Sahara Africa to support the worldwide holistic equality by an independent and higher technical life standard. This project supports the electrification of rural areas in Niger by the establishment of a standardized decentralized energy concept by optimization of an imminent decentralized energy system (DES) by a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) in terms of energetic, economic, environmental, and social aspects. This concept will motivate private and public investors to fund upcoming DES. The proposed method is a combination of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for structuring and weighting the elements and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to rank the predefined alternatives and to find the most suitable alternative from the set of alternatives in consideration of fuzzy numbers for uncertain input data. Both introduced methods are commonly used in energy studies.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123154149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evy M. Rahmey, Giavanna Gast, Sebastian R. Wick, Tram U. H. Vo, Margaret A. McLaughlin, Jonathan Osika, Brian Slocum, Nicholas Sawicki, Khanjan Mehta
{"title":"EcoRealms: Improving Well-being and Enhancing Productivity Through Incorporating Nature Into the Workplace","authors":"Evy M. Rahmey, Giavanna Gast, Sebastian R. Wick, Tram U. H. Vo, Margaret A. McLaughlin, Jonathan Osika, Brian Slocum, Nicholas Sawicki, Khanjan Mehta","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9911004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9911004","url":null,"abstract":"Work-induced stress is a large problem that has only been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Nature has beneficial effects on psychological and physiological well-being, with an abundance of scientific literature demonstrating the ability of greenery to reduce stress. As such, the fusion of nature-based design into the work and academic environments has the potential to greatly decrease student and employee stress. Primary methods of incorporating greenery indoors include living walls and potted plants. However, these methods fall short of creating an immersive environment that maximizes the positive impact on worker well-being, and additionally, barriers such as maintenance, costs, and extensive construction limit implementation. This paper outlines a new method to integrate nature into the work environment through “EcoRealms,” which are immersive, natural spaces created by modular and self-maintaining ‘living partitions.’ These low-cost, easy-to-install partitions act as design elements to create a flexible space that serves worker well-being and enhances productivity. Discussed are prototypes that demonstrate the design’s technical feasibility and results from a self-reported questionnaire that validate the positive impacts of the EcoRealm on wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133615295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric M. Dillon, Craig Carpenter, John Cook, Thomas D. Wills, Husnu S. Narman
{"title":"A Machine Learning-Based Automatic Feedback System to Teach Cybersecurity Principles to K-12 and College Students","authors":"Eric M. Dillon, Craig Carpenter, John Cook, Thomas D. Wills, Husnu S. Narman","doi":"10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC55712.2022.9910998","url":null,"abstract":"Feedback is an essential part of education to help students understand and learn from their mistakes. However, while students learn new content, there is mostly no live person to provide feedback, especially in a virtual environment. Therefore, there are many software for automated code reviews to provide feedback to programming language learners. However, there are no available auto command review tools for security tools except for each tool itself and operating system suggestions. There is also no feedback tool that constructively provides feedback according to learners’ experiences in security subjects while learners practice with commands. Therefore, we developed an automatic feedback system that uses machine learning to create customized student feedback on cybersecurity topics. The foundation of the software was completed and tested in 2 undergraduate introductory computer science courses. Survey results collected from users indicate that the automatic feedback system improved the learning experience of 46% of successful participants and that 77% of successful participants were interested in the continued development of the system. 88% of successful participants felt that the system taught basic command-line skills effectively.","PeriodicalId":370986,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131208282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}