[Research] it is on THURSDAY! Re: Special Auton Lab meeting: This Thursday Dec 1st at Noon in GHC 6501

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Sorry for all the confusion. The location had to be changed. It is now 
GHC 6501, same time.

Time:  12:00-1:00pm
Location GHC 6501

See you there!
-Vlad

On 11/28/2011 11:14 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote:
> Sorry it is on Thursday not Friday!
>
> Artur
>
> On 11/28/2011 11:10 AM, Artur Dubrawski wrote:
>> Speaker:
>>
>> Vlad Ermakov
>>
>> Title:
>>
>> Firefighters from Outer Space: Game With a Purpose Approach for
>> Improving Sensing of Forest Fires
>>
>> Abstract:
>>
>> Remote sensing is an integral part of forest fire monitoring
>> services around the world. Most widely accepted approach relies on the
>> MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensors, mounted
>> on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. These sensors can measure
>> reflected light and emitted heat from any location on Earth multiple
>> times a day, but have poor resolution. Collecting ground truth to
>> evaluate performance of various detection algorithms has been a
>> challenging and a costly task. This talk presents a scalable approach
>> to it. A recently launched game-with-a-purpose "Firefighters from Outer
>> Space" is a limited beta, but it has already attracted many users and a
>> lot of interest from remote sensing community in Russia, receiving the
>> first place award in "Monitoring Forest Fires" competition. We were
>> able to use the data gathered using this human computation based
>> approach to measure detection accuracy, and evaluate several techniques
>> that can hopefully lead to faster detection and response, and more
>> accurate statistics about forest fires.
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