The First Responder (FR) of the Future: a Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) for Collaborative Response, increasing protection and augmenting operational capacity

Project Information

INGENIOUS

Grant agreement ID: 833435

DOI 10.3030/833435

Project closed

EC signature date 29 April 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 28 February 2023

Funded under

• Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

Total cost € 8 961 111,25

EU contribution € 8 616 111,25

Coordinated by

EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON
Greece

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

INGENIOUS Training collateral

It includes documentation and delivery of computeraid interactive training sessions

Documents, reports (16)

Proceedings of the 1st INGENIOUS International Workshop

Report on the 1st workshop proceedings

Report on the dissemination of projects results (Final)

Final report on the implementation and impact of communication and dissemination activities

Pre-normative and pre-standardisation activities report (Final)

Report the INGENIOUS standardisation activities realised

INGENIOUS Brand strategy & Communication strategy and plan

The INGENIOUS brand strategy will define its positioning, values, attributes, benefits and development plan and will boost the relevant strategy and plan to inform, engage, create awareness and to promote information about the Action

Information Packs for referenced and networked communication amplifiers

Content for Communications Partners’ websites and social media channels

Pre-normative and pre-standardisation activities report (Intermediate)

Report the insights of INGENIOUS on technical and operational standards

Scenarios and Use Cases

It will report on definition of scenarios and use cases of the INGENIOUS Toolkit

Update on Scenarios and Use Cases & Exercises planning (revisited)

It will report on updates on scenarios and use cases and will further include the Exercises specific planning

INGENIOUS Evaluation and Lessons learned (Final)

It reports on evaluating use of INGENIOUS Toolkit systematic training outputs and lessons learned after 2nd field validation

Briefing paper for INGENIOUS complying with fundamental rights and societal values

It will report on analysing, reviewing fundamental rights and societal values

Proceedings of the 2nd INGENIOUS International Workshop

Report on the 2nd workshop proceedings

User functional and non-function Requirements

It will report user needs and User Workshop outputs

Socio-cultural considerations for future exploitation

It will report on Sociocultural including gender considerations of the project technology and recommendations towards its exploitation

User functional and non-function Reqs (revisited)

It will report user needs after all iterations throughout the Action

INGENIOUS Evaluation and Lessons learned (Iteration One)

It reports on evaluating use of INGENIOUS Toolkit systematic training outputs and lessons learned after 1st field validation

Report on the dissemination of projects results (Intermediate)

Intermediate report on the implementation and impact of communication and dissemination activities and any required adaptations to future plans

Publications

Conference proceedings (25)

DisasterMM: Multimedia Analysis of Disaster-Related Social Media Data Task at MediaEval 2022

Author(s): Stelios Andreadis; Aristeidis Bozas; Ilias Gialampoukidis; Anastasia Moumtzidou; Roberto Fiorin; Francesca Lombardo; Thanassis Mavropoulos; Daniele Norbiato; Stefanos Vrochidis; Michele Ferri; Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: MediaEval’22: Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, 2023
Publisher: MediaEval’22: Multimedia Evaluation Workshop [https://2022.multimediaeval.com/]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7599889

BCN2BRNO: ASR System Fusion for Albayzin 2020 Speech to Text Challenge

Author(s): Martin Kocour, Guillermo Cambara, Jordi Luque, David Bonet, Mireia Farrus, Martin Karafiat, Karel Vesely, and Jan “Honza” Cernocky, Brno University of Technology, Speech@FIT, Czechia, Telefonica I+D, Research, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Barcelona
Published in: IberSPEECH 2021, Proceedings - ISCA 2021, 2021, Page(s) 113-117
Publisher: IberSPEECH 2021 Proceedings, ISCA Archive
DOI: 10.21437/iberspeech.2021-24

An Explainable Intervention Prediction for Trauma Patients

Author(s): Vasileiou, Zoe; Meditskos, Georgios; Vrochidis, Stefanos; Bassiliades, Nick
Published in: SWAT4HCLS 2023 conference Proceedings, 2023
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7664127

TASE: Task-Aware Speech Enhancement for Wake-Up Word Detection in Voice Assistants

Author(s): Guillermo Cámbara; Fernando López; David Bonet; Pablo Gómez; Carlos Segura; Mireia Farrús; Jordi Luque
Published in: Special Issue IberSPEECH 2020: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, 2022, Page(s) 41-45
Publisher: Applied Sciences 2022 of MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12041974

Naturalness Enhancement with Linguistic Information in End-to-End TTS Using Unsupervised Parallel Encoding

Author(s): Alex Peiró-Lilja, Mireia Farrús
Published in: Interspeech 2020, 2020, Page(s) 3994-3998
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2020-1788

Laser sensing from small UAV

Author(s): Michael Tulldahl, Max Holmberg, Oskar Karlsson, Joakim Rydell, Erika Bilock, Linnéa Axelsson, Gustav Tolt, Jan Svedin
Published in: Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE Digital Library, 2020
Publisher: SPIE Proceedings
DOI: 10.1117/12.2575933

An Explainable Multimodal Fusion Approach for Mass Casualty Incidents

Author(s): Zoe Vasileiou, Georgios Meditskos, Stefanos Vrochidis, Nick Bassiliades
Published in: Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops. DEXA 2022, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1633, 2022, Page(s) 375–379
Publisher: Springer Communications [Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops 33rd International Conference, DEXA 2022, Vienna, Austria, August 22–24, 2022, Proceedings]
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_35

An Incrementally Deployed Swarm of MAVs for Localization Using Ultra-Wideband

Author(s): Natter, Dominik; Ening, Klaus; Paliotta, Claudio
Published in: 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Issue 3, 2022
Publisher: IEEE [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9836178]
DOI: 10.1109/icuas54217.2022.9836178

Unsupervised Harmonious Image Composition for Disaster Victim Detection

Author(s): Ning Zhang, Francesco Nex, George Vosselman, Norman Kerle
Published in: ISPRS Congress 2022 - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing XXIV ISPRS Congress, 2022
Publisher: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS Archives)
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-xliii-b3-2022-1189-2022

Resilient Communications for the First Responders at the field

Author(s): Athanasios Douklias, Maria Krommyda, Angelos Amditis
Published in: 2021 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications Technology and Computer Science (ACCTCS), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/acctcs52002.2021.00016

Micro indoor-drones (MINs) for localization of first responders

Author(s): Claudio Paliotta,SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway Klaus Ening, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway Sigurd Morkved Albrektsen,SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
Published in: ISCRAM 2021 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference Proceedings, 2021, Page(s) 881-889, ISBN 978-1-949373-61-5
Publisher: ISCRAM 2021 Proceedings, Blacksburg (USA)

Field trials of information fusion, expert reasoning, social media exploitation and worksite operations in SAR missions – INGENIOUS

Author(s): Alexios Vlachopoulos; Aspasia Tzeletopoulou; Harris Georgiou; Pantelis Linardatos; George Diles; Thomas Papadimos; Zoe Vasileiou; Spyros Kintzios; Angelos Amditis; Nantia Skepetari
Published in: SafeGreece Proceedings (SafeThessaloniki 2022 Proceedings), Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 305-308, ISSN 2654-1823
Publisher: SafeGreece [www.safegreece.org]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7158826

Micro And Macro Quadcopter Drones For Indoor Mapping To Support Disaster Management

Author(s): Samer Karam, Francesco Nex, Norman Kerle, Oskar Karlsson, Joakim Rydell, Erika Bilock, Michael Tulldahl, Max Holmberg,
Published in: ISPRS Congress 2022 - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing XXIV ISPRS Congress, 2022
Publisher: ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS Annals)
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-annals-v-1-2022-203-2022

INGENIOUS: The First Responder of the Future - A Next Generation Integrated Toolkit for Collaborative Response, increasing Protection and Augmented Operational Capacity

Author(s): Dr. Harris V. Georgiou
Published in: SafeCorfu 2019 Proceedings, 2019, Page(s) 107-110
Publisher: SafeGreece [www.safegreece.org]

Speech Enhancement for Wake-Up-Word detection in Voice Assistants

Author(s): David Bonet, Guillermo Cambara, Fernando Lopez, Pablo Gomez, Carlos Segura, Mireia Farrus, Jordi Luque, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat de Barcelona, Telefonica I+D, Digital Home, Telefonica I+D, Research, Spain
Published in: IberSPEECH 2021 Proceedings, ISCA 2021, 2021, Page(s) 41-45
Publisher: IberSPEECH 2021 Proceedings
DOI: 10.21437/iberspeech.2021-9

Lidar Positioning for Indoor Precision Navigation

Author(s): Max Holmberg, Oskar Karlsson, Michael Tulldahl
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2022, 2022, Page(s) 359-368
Publisher: 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
DOI: 10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00051

Ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery

Author(s): Panagiota Masa, Georgios Tzanetis, Spyridon Kintzios, Georgios Meditskos, Stefanos Vrochidis, Iosif Vourvachis, Lorenzo Nerantzis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: SafeThessaloniki 2022 Proceedings, 2022, Page(s) 333-336
Publisher: SafeGreece [www.safegreece.org] Editing, paging: Katerina – Navsika Katsetsiadou
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7756179

Increasing the situation awareness and response time of the K9 units using a smart, integrated vest for the canine companion

Author(s): Maria Krommyda, Angelos Stamou, Nikos Mitro, Katerina Voulgary, Angelos Amditis
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Sensor Science session Sensor Applications and Smart Systems, 2021
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/i3s2021dresden-10159

Towards Learning Low-Light Indoor Semantic Segmentation with Illumination-Invariant Features

Author(s): Zhang, Ning; Nex, Francesco; Kerle, Norman; Vosselman, Geroge
Published in: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISPRS Congress 2021, Issue 2, 2021
Publisher: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISPRS Congress 2021
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2021-427-2021

A Novel, Reliable and Real-time Solution for Triage and Unique Identification of Victims of Mass Casualty Incidents

Author(s): Fay Misichroni, Angelos Stamou, Paul Kuqo, Nikolaos Tousert, Anastasios Rigos, Evangelos Sdongos, Angelos Amditis
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Sensor Science session Sensor Applications and Smart Systems, 2021
Publisher: MDPI - Proceedings of The 8th International Symposium on Sensor Science session Sensor Applications and Smart Systems
DOI: 10.3390/i3s2021dresden-10180

Smart boots, fusion engine and aerial assets for enhanced situational awareness and safety in Search & Rescue operations

Author(s): Harris Georgiou, Alexis Vlachopoulos, Aspasia Tzeletopoulou, Georgios Diles, Eva Jaho, Anaxagoras Fotopoulos, Angelos Chatzimichail7, Anastasios Karakostas, Panayiota Demosthenous, Antonis Hadjiantonis, Henry Meissner, Thomas Kraft, Adrian Schischmanow, Gustav Tolt, Claudio Paliotta, Norman Kerle, Maria Krommyda, Lazaros Karagiannidis, Constantinos Vassilakis, Angelos Amditis
Published in: SAFEGREECE Conference Proceedings, 2020, Page(s) 129-132
Publisher: SafeGreece 2020 – 7th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies

Real-time Alert Framework for Fire Incidents Using Multimodal Event Detection on Social Media Streams

Author(s): Thomas Papadimos; Nick Pantelidis; Stelios Andreadis; Aristeidis Bozas; Ilias Gialampoukidis; Stefanos Vrochidis; Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th ISCRAM Conference – Tarbes, France May 2022, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 623-635
Publisher: ISCRAM 2022 [https://iscram2022.enit.fr/]
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6414021

Ontology-based Modelling and Reasoning for Forest Fire Emergencies in Resilient Societies

Author(s): Panagiota Masa, Georgios Meditskos, Spyridon Kintzios, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: SETN '22: Proceedings of the 12th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States
DOI: 10.1145/3549737.3549765

Emergency Response in Recent Urban/Suburban Disaster Events in Attica: Technology Gaps, Limitations and Lessons Learned

Author(s): Spyros Chrysanthopoulos, Theofanis Kapetanakis, Giannis Chaidemenos, Stelios Vernardos, Harris Georgiou, Claudio Rossi
Published in: 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 2020, Page(s) 984-989, ISBN 978-1-949373-27-1
Publisher: ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings

Technologies for First Responders and Search and Rescue Operations: Focusing on Field Communications

Author(s): Yorgos Vosinakis, Aristidis Dadoukis, Athanasios Douklias, Maria Krommyda, Dimitra Dionysiou, Spyros Athanasiadis, Lazaros Karagiannidis, Eleftherios Ouzounoglou, Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
Published in: 2021, Page(s) 178-181
Publisher: SafeGreece 2021 on-line Proceedings

Peer reviewed articles (5)

A Smart Integrated Vest for the Canine Companion of the K9 Units

Author(s): Georgios Vosinakis, Maria Krommyda, Angelos Stamou, Nikos Mitro, Marios Palazis-Aslanidis,Katerina Voulgary, Spyros Athanasiadis, Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)
Published in: MDPI Informatics, 2021, ISSN 2078-2489
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/informatics9010002

LISU: Low-light indoor scene understanding with joint learning of reflectance restoration

Author(s): Zhang, Ning; Nex, Francesco; Kerle, Norman; Vosselman, George
Published in: ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 470-481, ISSN 0924-2716
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.11.010

Microdrone-based Indoor Mapping with Graph SLAM

Author(s): Samer Karam, Francesco Nex, Bhanu Teja Chidura, Norman Kerle
Published in: Drones Journal (MDPI), 2022, ISSN 2504-446X
Publisher: Drones Journal (Special Issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X) titled Applications of UAVs in Civil Infrastructure)
DOI: 10.3390/drones6110352

Training a Disaster Victim Detection Network for UAV Search and Rescue Using Harmonious Composite Images

Author(s): Ning Zhang; Francesco Nex; George Vosselman; Norman Kerle
Published in: "Special Issue ""Remote Sensing for Emergency Management: Algorithms, Methods and Applications""", Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) Pages: 2977, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14132977

Earthquakes: From Twitter Detection to EO Data Processing

Author(s): Stelios Andreadis; Ilias Gialampoukidis; Andrea Manconi; David Cordeiro; Vasco Conde; Manuela Sagona; Fabrice Brito; Nick Pantelidis; Thanassis Mavropoulos; Nuno Grosso; Stefanos Vrochidis; Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Issue 7, 2022, ISSN 1545-598X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2022.3149541