Posted on July 12, 2019
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Eliminating Forced Work via Satellites
This is an amazing application. The researchers train a fairly standard detection network, “resnet”, and train it to detect certain objects in satellite imagery. Here, though, what they are detecting are “brick kilns”; places where there may be forced labour. By helping identify these locations, they can then be referred to the authorities!
This is a beautiful application of deep learning, and the authors note that they are also addressing one of the UNs sustainable development goals!
