KKU students develop AI innovation to solve crowd crush tragedy, preventing crush deaths

In October 2022, many people were saddened by the world's most shocking tragedy, a crowd crush that resulted in deaths during a Halloween celebration in the Itaewon district of Seoul, South Korea. The crowding of people without any restrictions on the number of people entering the event on a 40-meter-long, 3.2-meter-wide, and steep street, people could not know how crowded the event was and could not identify people in each street. This was one of the causes of the crowd crush, which resulted in at least 157 deaths and many injuries on October 29, 2022 at 10:15 p.m. (Korea time). As a result of this tragedy, Mr. Chomsawat Naknam, an Artificial Intelligence student at the College of Computer Science, Khon Kaen University, invented the innovation "AI to count people entering the exhibition", revealing that AI can analyze more complexly than the human brain or eyes can see, and it is accurate, convenient, and can be applied to situations, events, and locations appropriately. For example, his project is using AI to count the number of people entering an exhibition or a place with a lot of people. This project can identify where there are a lot of people. Normally, the human eye can roughly estimate the number of people in an area, but it can be slow and subject to high errors. “Nowadays, we don’t have to work so hard. We can use