Multi-source Multimodal Data and Deep Learning for Disaster Response: A Systematic Review.

Mechanisms for sharing information in a disaster situation have drastically changed due to new technological innovations throughout the world. The use of social media applications and collaborative technologies for information sharing have become increasingly popular. With these advancements, the amount of data collected increases daily in different modalities, such as text, audio, video, and images. However, to date, practical Disaster Response (DR) activities are mostly depended on textual information, such as situation reports and email content, and the benefit of other media is often not realised. Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have recently demonstrated promising results in extracting knowledge from multiple modalities of data, but the use of DL approaches for DR tasks has thus far mostly been pursued in an academic context. This paper conducts a systematic review of 83 articles to identify the successes, current and future challenges, and opportunities in using DL for DR tasks. Our analysis is centred around the components of learning, a set of aspects that govern the application of Machine learning (ML) for a given problem domain. A flowchart and guidance for future research are developed as an outcome of the analysis to ensure the benefits of DL for DR activities are utilized.Publishe

MalFake: A Multimodal Fake News Identification for Malayalam using Recurrent Neural Networks and VGG-16

The amount of news being consumed online has substantially expanded in recent years. Fake news has become increasingly common, especially in regional languages like Malayalam, due to the rapid publication and lack of editorial standards on some online sites. Fake news may have a terrible effect on society, causing people to make bad judgments, lose faith in authorities, and even engage in violent behavior. When we take into the context of India, there are many regional languages, and fake news is spreading in every language. Therefore, providing efficient techniques for identifying false information in regional tongues is crucial. Until now, little to no work has been done in Malayalam, extracting features from multiple modalities to classify fake news. Multimodal approaches are more accurate in detecting fake news, as features from multiple modalities are extracted to build the deep learning classification model. As far as we know, this is the first piece of work in Malayalam that uses multimodal deep learning to tackle false information. Models trained with more than one modality typically outperform models taught with only one modality. Our study in the Malayalam language utilizing multimodal deep learning is a significant step toward more effective misinformation detection and mitigation

A deep multi-modal neural network for informative Twitter content classification during emergencies

YesPeople start posting tweets containing texts, images, and videos as soon as a disaster hits an area. The analysis of these disaster-related tweet texts, images, and videos can help humanitarian response organizations in better decision-making and prioritizing their tasks. Finding the informative contents which can help in decision making out of the massive volume of Twitter content is a difficult task and require a system to filter out the informative contents. In this paper, we present a multi-modal approach to identify disaster-related informative content from the Twitter streams using text and images together. Our approach is based on long-short-term-memory (LSTM) and VGG-16 networks that show significant improvement in the performance, as evident from the validation result on seven different disaster-related datasets. The range of F1-score varied from 0.74 to 0.93 when tweet texts and images used together, whereas, in the case of only tweet text, it varies from 0.61 to 0.92. From this result, it is evident that the proposed multi-modal system is performing significantly well in identifying disaster-related informative social media contents

Optimized Ensemble Approach for Multi-model Event Detection in Big data

Event detection acts an important role among modern society and it is a popular computer process that permits to detect the events automatically. Big data is more useful for the event detection due to large size of data. Multimodal event detection is utilized for the detection of events using heterogeneous types of data. This work aims to perform for classification of diverse events using Optimized Ensemble learning approach. The Multi-modal event data including text, image and audio are sent to the user devices from cloud or server where three models are generated for processing audio, text and image. At first, the text, image and audio data is processed separately. The process of creating a text model includes pre-processing using Imputation of missing values and data normalization. Then the textual feature extraction using integrated N-gram approach. The Generation of text model using Convolutional two directional LSTM (2DCon_LSTM). The steps involved in image model generation are pre-processing using Min-Max Gaussian filtering (MMGF). Image feature extraction using VGG-16 network model and generation of image model using Tweaked auto encoder (TAE) model. The steps involved in audio model generation are pre-processing using Discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Then the audio feature extraction using Hilbert Huang transform (HHT) and Generation of audio model using Attention based convolutional capsule network (Attn_CCNet). The features obtained by the generated models of text, image and audio are fused together by feature ensemble approach. From the fused feature vector, the optimal features are trained through improved battle royal optimization (IBRO) algorithm. A deep learning model called Convolutional duo Gated recurrent unit with auto encoder (C-Duo GRU_AE) is used as a classifier. Finally, different types of events are classified where the global model are then sent to the user devices with high security and offers better decision making process. The proposed methodology achieves better performances are Accuracy (99.93%), F1-score (99.91%), precision (99.93%), Recall (99.93%), processing time (17seconds) and training time (0.05seconds). Performance analysis exceeds several comparable methodologies in precision, recall, accuracy, F1 score, training time, and processing time. This designates that the proposed methodology achieves improved performance than the compared schemes. In addition, the proposed scheme detects the multi-modal events accurately

Social Media Analytics in Disaster Response: A Comprehensive Review

Social media has emerged as a valuable resource for disaster management, revolutionizing the way emergency response and recovery efforts are conducted during natural disasters. This review paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of social media analytics for disaster management. The abstract begins by highlighting the increasing prevalence of natural disasters and the need for effective strategies to mitigate their impact. It then emphasizes the growing influence of social media in disaster situations, discussing its role in disaster detection, situational awareness, and emergency communication. The abstract explores the challenges and opportunities associated with leveraging social media data for disaster management purposes. It examines methodologies and techniques used in social media analytics, including data collection, preprocessing, and analysis, with a focus on data mining and machine learning approaches. The abstract also presents a thorough examination of case studies and best practices that demonstrate the successful application of social media analytics in disaster response and recovery. Ethical considerations and privacy concerns related to the use of social media data in disaster scenarios are addressed. The abstract concludes by identifying future research directions and potential advancements in social media analytics for disaster management. The review paper aims to provide practitioners and researchers with a comprehensive understanding of the current state of social media analytics in disaster management, while highlighting the need for continued research and innovation in this field.Comment: 11 page