Blendsps: A blockchain-enabled decentralized smart public safety system

R Xu, SY Nikouei, D Nagothu, A Fitwi, Y Chen - Smart Cities, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the recent advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge-Fog-Cloud
Computing technologies, the Smart Public Safety (SPS) system has become a more realistic …

Methods of AI for multimodal sensing and action for complex situations

E Blasch, R Cruise, A Aved, U Majumder, T Rovito - AI Magazine, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) seeks to emulate human reasoning, but is still far from achieving
such results for actionable sensing in complex situations. Instead of emulating human …

Multisource AI scorecard table for system evaluation

E Blasch, J Sung, T Nguyen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2102.03985, 2021 - arxiv.org
The paper describes a Multisource AI Scorecard Table (MAST) that provides the developer
and user of an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) system with a standard …

Automatic association of chats and video tracks for activity learning and recognition in aerial video surveillance

RI Hammoud, CS Sahin, EP Blasch, BJ Rhodes… - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
We describe two advanced video analysis techniques, including video-indexed by voice
annotations (VIVA) and multi-media indexing and explorer (MINER). VIVA utilizes analyst …

A joint manifold leaning-based framework for heterogeneous upstream data fusion

D Shen, E Blasch, P Zulch, M Distasio… - … of Algorithms & …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
A joint manifold learning fusion (JMLF) approach is proposed for nonlinear or mixed sensor
modalities with large streams of data. The multimodal sensor data are stacked to form joint …

Decentralized smart surveillance through microservices platform

SY Nikouei, R Xu, Y Chen, A Aved… - Sensors and systems …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Connected societies require reliable measures to assure the safety, privacy, and security of
members. Public safety technology has made fundamental improvements since the first …

Blockchain methods for trusted avionics systems

E Blasch, R Xu, Y Chen, G Chen… - 2019 IEEE National …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain is a popular method to ensure security for trusted systems. The benefits include
an auditable method to provide decentralized security without a trusted third party, but the …

Deep learning measures of effectiveness

E Blasch, S Liu, Z Liu, Y Zheng - NAECON 2018-IEEE National …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The resurgence of interest in artificial intelligence (AI) stem from impressive deep learning
(DL) performance such as hierarchical supervised training using a Convolutional Neural …

QuEST for information fusion in multimedia reports

EP Blasch, SK Rogers, H Holloway, J Tierno… - International Journal of …, 2014 - igi-global.com
Abstract Qualia-based Exploitation of Sensing Technology (QuEST) is an approach to create
a cognitive exoskeleton to improve human-machine decision quality. In this paper, the …

I-safe: Instant suspicious activity identification at the edge using fuzzy decision making

SY Nikouei, Y Chen, A Aved, E Blasch… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Urban imagery usually serves as forensic analysis and by design is available for incident
mitigation. As more imagery collected, it is harder to narrow down to certain frames among …