The System Reuniting Earthquake Victims with Their Families: DerinGÖRÜ

Uninterrupted after the earthquake losses, miraculous salvations, aids sometimes it turned into a deep sadness and sometimes a hopeful excitement in all of us.

In this process unaccompanied earthquake victims has become one of the biggest problems. While every attempt is made to reunite children with their families, TÜBİTAK’s DerinGÖRÜ system stepped in. With this system, unaccompanied earthquake victims Face recognition system Thanks to him, he began to reunite with his families.

Call centers were established for unaccompanied earthquake victims.

After the earthquake, many citizens, relatives, families and children could not communicate. In addition to this, surviving from the wreckage, small children who cannot express themselves Steps have been taken to reunite with their families as soon as possible.

Ministry of Family and Social Services, unaccompanied after the earthquake, Unidentified children who are separated from their families established a call center to find and reunite their families. In this call center, “DerinGÖRÜ” developed by TÜBİTAK face recognition and matching software The detection of unaccompanied minors was started by using

While the records of the children brought to the hospital with the DerinGÖRÜ system were kept, the families also conveyed the information of their missing children.

With this system, families or relatives who cannot hear from their children can call the call centers. All information and one photo of the children started to call the call center. The meticulous recording of this information in the system allowed to create a large pool for missing children.

At the same time, TÜBİTAK employees, applications and shares on social mediaand field workers information at the hospital He continued to work devotedly to reunite children with their families by continuing to upload to the system and expanding this pool.

Unaccompanied children were reunited with their families by using face recognition and matching software in the DerinGÖRÜ system.

In the light of this information, matches were started from the “face registration process” and “gallery” sections in the system. Between children registered in the system and reported children photo matches attempts were made to identify them. After the earthquake survivors who showed compliance were determined, it was determined which hospital they were in and communication was established with the authorities. After the hospital staff made the first communication with the family, the process continued with identification and social determinations.

All work done after security falling apart about 157 earthquake victim children and his family were reunited. This system, which sheds some light on the material and moral destructive aspects of the earthquake, sprinkled a little water on everyone.