2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Study on Automatic Detection of Road Blockages by Time-Space Cooperative Analysis of Low Resolution Aerial Images on Wide Areas

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22651064
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Social systems engineering/Safety system
Research Institution	Shizuoka University
Principal Investigator	SAJI Hitoshi 静岡大学, 創造科学技術大学院, 教授 (10283334)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TAMURA Hiroyuki 総務省消防庁消防大学校, 技術研究部, 大規模火災研究室長 (70358795)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	安全情報 / 環境整備
Research Abstract	The purpose of our study is to consider the automatic detectionmethod of detailed information on the ground using low resolution aerial images onwide areas and to apply the method for obtaining the road information on wide areas required for the rescue activities in the large-scale disaster. For this purpose, we considered the automatic detection method of road blockages by cooperative analysis of varying information around the road areas from low resolution aerial images, and we built the trial system. Furthermore, we experimented and evaluated the method using thereal images obtained in the large-scale disaster. In the results, we showed the realization of automatic detection of road blockages caused by the rubbles and floods.