Unnamed. - Space Apps Challenge

Unnamed.| Hey! What Are You Looking At?

Awards & Nominations

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Global Nominee

Hey! What Are You Looking At?

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) archives space agencies' data from missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomena (e.g., gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts, and supernovae). The Canadian Astronomy Data Center (CADC) is another repository containing missions studying comets, asteroids, and exoplanets among other things. Your challenge is to create a visualization tool that can help people interested in these phenomena to access the data quickly and easily.

SpaceBot

Summary

SpaceBot is a chat bot whose main objective is to inspire those people who wish to enter the world of space phenomena.What does it consist of?Well, it facilitates the work of people by observing a phenomenon that they are not aware of... How? SpaceBot consists of an artificial intelligence that allows the user to send an image of a phenomenon (whether a comet, asteroid, supernova, gamma ray burst or exoplanet) that he or she does not know, and the program will only analyze the image and recognize the space phenomenon it contains. In this way, the user will be curious about what he or she has observed and will want to continue researching it! SpaceBot offers the user info of the phenomenal

How We Addressed This Challenge

we developed a bot capable of recognizing spatial phenomena found in photos, and thus provide information about them.

It can be very useful for both interested users and experienced people. In the case of a user interested in a phenomenon that he does not know, he will be able to identify what the phenomenon is and investigate it. In the case of an experienced person who cannot identify what phenomenon he is observing, using SpaceBot his doubt will be solved.

Once the user's image is sent to the chat bot, it will call the artificial intelligence service and process the image to detect what phenomenon it contains, and offer the user information about the detected phenomenon so that the user can investigate it .

We hope to make the user enthusiastic about the subject and want to expand their knowledge about it, and thus inspire more people to investigate space phenomena

The software we developed is to run in terminal, however, in the PowerPoint presentation we made, you see reflected the same program but with graphical interface, more user friendly

How We Developed This Project

When we heard about the event, went inside to see the challenges and found "Hey! What Are You Looking At?", our eyes lit up when we realized that we were capable of solving a great challenge. We have both people who know how to program and people who know about space phenomena .

We discarded many ideas, until we found the best one, it had both a technical and business focus and we started to develop it.

The bot was developed in Python 3, it has an integrated artificial intelligence service called "Visual Recognition".

We encountered several problems when integrating the service, at first we wanted to merge the IBM Watson Assistant services with IBM Watson Visual Recognition and we did not succeed, however, we finally developed a code in Python and integrated IBM Watson Visual Recognition there.

The ChatBot works quite effectively, is fast and easy to use

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We navigate through links with information offered by NASA about every phenomenon the program can recognize (comets, asteroids, gamma ray burst, supernovas and exoplanets)