September 2025 – November 2026
The current online media landscape provides unprecedented access to publicly available information on conflicts and key issues relevant to the ICRC. However, manually processing this open-source content has become increasingly challenging, requiring significant time, effort, and exposing staff to potentially distressing material. To support the ICRC and other humanitarian organizations in navigating this digital information environment both sustainably and effectively, we leverage Artificial Intelligence-based technologies, particularly in the field of Computer Vision, to automate the analysis of conflict-related data. Our focus is on identifying protected persons by analyzing photographs of documents, military identification tags, and written reports recovered from war zones, in particular for the armed conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
EPFL PI: Dr. Roberto Castello
Humanitarian Partner(s): Carlos Villalobos (ICRC)
Photo: Copyright: ICRC/ Pieter-Jan De Pue / 16.12.2015/ Caption: Lugansk. The ICRC helps families find relatives. A relative of a missing person during an interview./ Reference: V-P-UA-E-00436
