" alt="" title=""/>Researchers at the Seoul Institute of Technology use artificial intelligence to detect and prevent suicide attempts.
To this end, the AI system they have developed has been learning behavior patterns since April 2020 by analyzing data from cameras, sensors and emergency service records.
Based on information from hours of CCTV footage and evaluating details such as the person’s hesitation, the AI can then predict a dangerous situation and alert rescue teams immediately, said lead researcher Kim Jun-chul.
“We believe the new video surveillance will allow our crews to spot the cases a little faster and make us a call faster,” Kim Hyeong-gil, who heads the Yeouido Water Rescue Brigade, told Reuters when he was real Monitored time recordings of bridges on the Han River in Seoul.
Kim’s team worked with the researchers to develop the technology that will control his crew and the Seoul Fire and Disaster Headquarters starting in October. Your work cannot come fast enough.
South Korea had the OECD’s highest suicide rate in 2019, with a population of 52 million. More than 13,700 people committed suicide that same year, government data showed.
Nearly 500 suicide attempts are reported each year on 27 bridges spanning the nearly 500 km (300 miles) long Han River, the city said.
Rescue operations rose about 30 percent in 2020 year over year, and many of the attempts were made by people in their twenties and thirties as the coronavirus pandemic brought greater economic hardship and intensified the battle for jobs, said the rescue brigade said Kim.
“The system learns the footage itself, which can lead to improved results by greatly reducing false positives,” said the lead researcher.
(With contributions from agencies)
