AI Use in Disaster Response

AI UDR: This team uses machine learning and deep learning techniques to analyze social media posts, including text and images, for disaster response tasks.

Advisor:

Soudabeh Taghian

Description:

This team explores the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques in disaster response tasks by analyzing text and image posts on social media. Some potential projects include Disaster-Related Text and Image Classification, which could be extended to multi-modal models that integrate both text and image data for better performance, and Damage Assessment, which involves disaster localization and classification to assess the extent and severity of damage.

Areas of interest:

  • Machine Learning
  • Image Processing
  • Natrual Language Processing
 

Prerequisite Knowledge:

  • Experienced in Python programming
  • Experienced in maching learning/deep learning models