Learning to Assess Danger from Movies for Cooperative Escape Planning in Hazardous Environments

Vikram Shree,Sarah Allen,Beatriz Asfora,Jacopo Banfi,Mark Campbell,Vikram Shree,Sarah Allen,Beatriz Asfora,Jacopo Banfi,Mark Campbell

There has been a plethora of work towards im-proving robot perception and navigation, yet their application in hazardous environments, like during a fire or an earthquake, is still at a nascent stage. We hypothesize two key challenges here: first, it is difficult to replicate such scenarios in the real world, which is necessary for training and testing purposes. Second, current systems are not ful...