Collaborations

Collaborations #

Tech 4 Tracing #

Photogrammetry of the 9N235 submunition
Photogrammetry of the 9N235 submunition

VFRAME partners with Tech 4 Tracing to gain insight and expertise into the munitions used in conflict zones in order to create 3D models and capture sample data for developing and enhancing computer vision object detection technologies.

Tech 4 Tracing (T4T) is an international, US-based non-profit working towards building partnerships with human rights investigation communities to enhance and improve their abilities to understand and address illicit arms flows, bring perpetrators of armed violence to justice, and contribute to safer societies.

Collaboration Updates

  • Aug 17, 2022: T4T dispatches policy brief (PDF) on using new technology for illicit arms control
  • July 15, 2022: New 9N235 detector test videos added (bottom of page)
  • June 29, 2022: VFRAME presents the 9N235/210 submunition at the UN headquarters in NYC along with the 3D printed training replica at BMS8
  • Website: Tech4Tracing.org

Syrian Archive #

Images from the Syrian Archive’s chemical weapon investigation
Images from the Syrian Archive’s chemical weapon investigation

The Syrian Archive is a Syrian-led and initiated collective of human rights activists dedicated to curating visual documentation relating to human rights violations and other crimes committed by all sides during the conflict in Syria with the goal of creating an evidence-based tool for reporting, advocacy and accountability purposes.

VFRAME has partnered extensively with the Syrian Archive to bring understanding to the massive corpus of video they have amassed.

KIM Research Group (Künstliche Intelligenz und Medienphilosophie) #

The KIM Research Group (Künstliche Intelligenz und Medienphilosophie) at HfG Karlsruhe has supported VFRAME with the printing of 3D models of the AO-2.5RT cluster munition in 2018. These prototypes were used to test the possibilties of using 3D printed objects for generating image training data.

Thanks to Matteo Pasquinelli, Grit Werner, Marco Kempf and the Product Design department.

FormLabs #

3D print at FormLabs in Berlin using the new Form 3
3D print at FormLabs in Berlin using the new Form 3

FormLabs created 3D printed replicas of cluster munitions for 3D-printed data research. These high quality prints provide tactile understanding of each model, and allow us to enrich our datasets by incorporating photographed real-world imagery into our synthetic datasets.

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