Ex-ante online risk assessment for building emergency evacuation through multimedia data

PLoS One. 2019 Apr 11;14(4):e0215149. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215149. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Ex-ante online risk assessment for building emergency evacuation is essential to protect human life and property. Current risk assessment methods are limited by the tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose an online method that overcomes this tradeoff based on multimedia data (e.g. videos data from surveillance cameras) and deep learning. The method consists of two parts. The first estimates the evacuee position as input for training the assessment model to then perform risk assessment in real scenarios. The second considers a social force model based on the evacuation simulation for the output of training model. We verify the proposed method in simulation and real scenarios. Model sensitivity analyses and large-scale tests demonstrate the usability and superiority of the proposed method. By the method, the computation time of risk assessment could be decreased from 10 minutes (by traditional simulation method) to 2.18 s.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Disaster Planning / methods*
  • Disaster Planning / standards*
  • Emergency Medical Services / standards*
  • Humans
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Multimedia / statistics & numerical data*
  • Online Systems*
  • Risk Assessment / methods*

Associated data

  • figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.7803017.v1

Grants and funding

This study was funded by Grant in-Aid for Scientific Research B (17H01784) to Xuan Song. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.