SPLASH 2021
Sun 17 - Fri 22 October 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wed 20 Oct 2021 14:35 - 14:50 at Zurich C - Onward! Paper Session 2 Chair(s): Christophe Scholliers
Wed 20 Oct 2021 22:35 - 22:50 at Zurich C - Onward! Paper Session 2 Chair(s): Hidehiko Masuhara

Video-based sensing from aerial drones, especially small multirotor drones, can provide rich data for numerous applications, including traffic analysis (computing traffic flow volumes), precision agriculture (periodically evaluating plant health), and wildlife population management (estimating population sizes). However, aerial drone video sensing applications must handle a surprisingly wide range of tasks: video frames must be aligned so that we can equate coordinates of objects that appear in different frames, video data must be analyzed to extract application-specific insights, and drone routes must be computed that maximize the value of newly captured video. To address these challenges, we built SkyQuery, a novel aerial drone video sensing platform that provides an expressive, high-level programming language to make it straightforward for users to develop complex long-running sensing applications. SkyQuery combines novel methods for fast video frame alignment and detection of small objects in top-down aerial drone video to efficiently execute applications with diverse video analysis workflows and data distributions, thereby allowing application developers to focus on the unique qualities of their particular application rather than general video processing, data analysis, and drone routing tasks. We conduct diverse case studies using SkyQuery in parking monitoring, pedestrian activity mapping, and traffic hazard detection scenarios to demonstrate the generalizability and effectiveness of our system.

Wed 20 Oct

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13:50 - 15:10
Onward! Paper Session 2Onward! Papers at Zurich C +8h
Chair(s): Christophe Scholliers Universiteit Gent, Belgium
13:50
15m
Talk
Kotlin Coroutines: Design and ImplementationVirtual
Onward! Papers
Roman Elizarov JetBrains, Mikhail Belyaev JetBrains Research; St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Marat Akhin JetBrains Research; St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Ilmir Usmanov JetBrains
DOI
14:05
15m
Talk
Dala: A Simple Capability-Based Dynamic Language Design for Data Race-FreedomVirtual
Onward! Papers
Kiko Fernandez-Reyes Uppsala University, Isaac Oscar Gariano Victoria University of Wellington, James Noble Victoria University of Wellington, Erin Greenwood-Thessman Victoria University of Wellington, Michael Homer Victoria University of Wellington, Tobias Wrigstad Uppsala University, Sweden
DOI
14:20
15m
Talk
Motivating Complexity Understanding by Profiling Energy UsageVirtual
Onward! Papers
Joshua B. Gross California State University at Monterey Bay, Daniel Jacoby California State University at Monterey Bay, Kevin Coogan Hampton University, Aaron Helman California State University at Monterey Bay
DOI
14:35
15m
Talk
SkyQuery: An Aerial Drone Video Sensing PlatformVirtual
Onward! Papers
Favyen Bastani Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Songtao He Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ziwen Jiang Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Osbert Bastani University of Pennsylvania, Sam Madden Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DOI
14:50
20m
Live Q&A
Discussion, Questions and Answers
Onward! Papers

21:50 - 23:10
Onward! Paper Session 2Onward! Papers at Zurich C
Chair(s): Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology
21:50
15m
Talk
Kotlin Coroutines: Design and ImplementationVirtual
Onward! Papers
Roman Elizarov JetBrains, Mikhail Belyaev JetBrains Research; St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Marat Akhin JetBrains Research; St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Ilmir Usmanov JetBrains
DOI
22:05
15m
Talk
Dala: A Simple Capability-Based Dynamic Language Design for Data Race-FreedomVirtual
Onward! Papers
Kiko Fernandez-Reyes Uppsala University, Isaac Oscar Gariano Victoria University of Wellington, James Noble Victoria University of Wellington, Erin Greenwood-Thessman Victoria University of Wellington, Michael Homer Victoria University of Wellington, Tobias Wrigstad Uppsala University, Sweden
DOI
22:20
15m
Talk
Motivating Complexity Understanding by Profiling Energy UsageVirtual
Onward! Papers
Joshua B. Gross California State University at Monterey Bay, Daniel Jacoby California State University at Monterey Bay, Kevin Coogan Hampton University, Aaron Helman California State University at Monterey Bay
DOI
22:35
15m
Talk
SkyQuery: An Aerial Drone Video Sensing PlatformVirtual
Onward! Papers
Favyen Bastani Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Songtao He Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ziwen Jiang Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Osbert Bastani University of Pennsylvania, Sam Madden Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DOI
22:50
20m
Live Q&A
Discussion, Questions and Answers
Onward! Papers