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Samiksha

- Finding the Missing Child -

Samiksha is an Artificial Intelligence-based platform, accessible to the general public which intends to solve the problem of missing children.

Meaning: to analyse or review

Mission
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This Idea is unique and patentable since it will use automated surveillance of real-time and offline CCTV footage and still images of the missing child using face recognition algorithms with age invariance.

Automated publishing on social media and logging an online FIR based on user consent, along with bi-directional synchronization with Govt records like TrackMissingChild.

Vision
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Using advanced age invariance facial recognition algorithms, Samiksha will increase the possibility of finding missing children by also considering age progression.

It will increase the chances of reporting orphans, and sighted children to police and child NGOs.

Statistics and Data
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In India, 177 children go missing every day.

3,18,748 children went missing between January 2014 -December 2019.

Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi have the highest number

for missing children respectively.

Current Challenges to Finding a Missing Child
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Publication

- Poster Publication in news, media

- Lack of social media integration and active monitoring

- Reduced visibility and reach

Notification

- Lack of automated notification system to stakeholders

Speed/ Time

- Slow track and trace efforts involving multiple stakeholders
- Time lag in the dissemination of information to other places/departments

Collaboration + Coordination

- No community participation

- Lack of coordination and systemic collaboration among - People, NGO, Police, Rehab Center

Searching

- No automated way to recognize a missing child’s photo in govt records and cctv/video feeds.
- Sustained efforts to resolve missing child cases are very rare.
- Parents search in orphanages, shelter homes

Reporting

- FIR registration is still a daunting task for common people.

- Follow-up on missing child cases is slow.

- Entry in General Station Diary (Zero FIR)

- Negligible efforts by common people to report orphan children sighted on streets

Samiksha's Solution!
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Facial Recognition

- Allow users to search for missing child photos in sighted records and vice versa.

- Allow users/police to search for missing child in video record or CCTV footage

- Age invariant face recognition

Automation

- Auto Sync data with Govt/NGO portals (TrackMissingChild).
- Automated Fast Retraining Deep learning model.
- Automated E-alerts to different stakeholders based on location and type of report.
- Ability to lodge online FIR based on user consent

Social Media Integration

- Automated Missing/Sighted child publication on social media.

- Actively monitor replies/comments to extract useful information using NLP-based Bots.

AI Analytics

- Provide actionable insights using pattern recognition Natural Language Processing algorithm from available data.
- Location Analytics.
- Behaviour and activity profiling.

The Ecosystem
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Samiksha Cloud Hosted Backend Engine

User uploads missing/ sighted child photos with details <––> In case of a missing child, the user is provided an option to register online/ offline FIR if it is not done.

Using FR, the system searches in the following:

a.Existing sighted records in the database (reported missing)

b.Existing missing records in the database (for sighted reported)

c.Video/ CCTV footage

Police will mark the case as resolved if the user confirms the match and a notification will be sent to the Police/ NGO whoever has custody of the child to facilitate a reunion.

The system stores the record in the missing/ sighted database which is auto-synced with Track Missing Child.

If a match is found or if any useful information fetched from social media it is detected, then the notification is sent to the user with the Reference ID.

In the case of a sighted child, a notification is sent to the nearest police station and NGO with child details to Rescue and Support/ Rehab.

The system publishes the record on social media and stores the details in the database.

Using the Reference ID shared by the user, police will check the probable matches/social media information details along with the user.