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Recent natural disasters have highlighted the urgent need for efficient data-driven approaches to disaster management. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques have shown considerable promise in enhancing the key phases of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alain P. Ndigande , Josiah Wiggins , Sedat Ozer

Social media data has been increasingly used to facilitate situational awareness during events and emergencies such as natural disasters. While researchers have investigated several methods to summarize, visualize or mine the data for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Luke S. Snyder , Morteza Karimzadeh , Christina Stober , David S. Ebert

Current robot platforms are being employed to collaborate with humans in a wide range of domestic and industrial tasks. These environments require autonomous systems that are able to classify and communicate anomalous situations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Octavio Arriaga , Paul Plöger , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

People increasingly use microblogging platforms such as Twitter during natural disasters and emergencies. Research studies have revealed the usefulness of the data available on Twitter for several disaster response tasks. However, making…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Firoj Alam , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Michael Aupetit

In recent years, we have been faced with a series of natural disasters causing a tremendous amount of financial, environmental, and human losses. The unpredictable nature of natural disasters' behavior makes it hard to have a comprehensive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Amir Karami , Vishal Shah , Reza Vaezi , Amit Bansal

Social media platforms provide a real-time lens into public sentiment during natural disasters; however, models built solely on textual data often reinforce urban-centric biases and overlook underrepresented communities. This paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zihui Ma , Yiheng Chen , Runlong Yu , Afra Izzati Kamili , Fangqi Chen , Zhaoxi Zhang , Juan Li , Yuki Miura

Mining user-generated data often suffers from the lack of enough labeled data, short document lengths, and the informal user language. In this paper, we propose a novel active learning model to overcome these obstacles in the tasks tailored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Payam Karisani , Negin Karisani , Li Xiong

Due to the rapid growth of social media platforms, these tools have become essential for monitoring information during ongoing disaster events. However, extracting valuable insights requires real-time processing of vast amounts of data. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Philipp Seeberger , Steffen Freisinger , Tobias Bocklet , Korbinian Riedhammer

In recent years, social media has become one of the most popular platforms for communication. These platforms allow users to report real-world incidents that might swiftly and widely circulate throughout the whole social network. A social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mohammadsepehr Karimiziarani

A timely and effective response is crucial to minimize damage and save lives during natural disasters like earthquakes. Microblogging platforms, particularly Twitter, have emerged as valuable real-time information sources for such events.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Deep Patel , Panthadeep Bhattacharjee , Amit Reza , Priodyuti Pradhan

Social media can be used for disaster risk reduction as a complement to traditional information sources, and the literature has suggested numerous ways to achieve this. In the case of floods, for instance, data collection from social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Valerio Lorini , Carlos Castillo , Domenico Nappo , Francesco Dottori , Peter Salamon

Natural disasters act as a serious threat globally, requiring effective and efficient disaster management and recovery. This paper focuses on classifying natural disaster images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Multiple CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Archit Rathod , Veer Pariawala , Mokshit Surana , Kumkum Saxena

Deep learning models have been used extensively to solve real-world problems in recent years. The performance of such models relies heavily on large amounts of labeled data for training. While the advances of data collection technology have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Humayun Irshad , Qazaleh Mirsharif , Jennifer Prendki

The integration of social media and artificial intelligence (AI) into disaster management, particularly for earthquake response, represents a profound evolution in emergency management practices. In the digital age, real-time information…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kalin Kopanov , Velizar Varbanov , Tatiana Atanasova

The analysis of natural disasters such as floods in a timely manner often suffers from limited data due to a coarse distribution of sensors or sensor failures. This limitation could be alleviated by leveraging information contained in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Björn Barz , Kai Schröter , Moritz Münch , Bin Yang , Andrea Unger , Doris Dransch , Joachim Denzler

Social media like Twitter provide a common platform to share and communicate personal experiences with other people. People often post their life experiences, local news, and events on social media to inform others. Many rescue agencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ashis Kumar Chanda

Social Media websites have disseminated digital devices to the public, making information sharing easier and faster. Exchanging textual data is the most popular communication among social media users. It has become a necessity for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Fouzi Harrag , Selmene Gueliani

Social media has become a critical source of situational awareness during disasters, providing real-time insights into evolving impacts and emerging needs. To support crisis response at scale, recent work has increasingly leveraged large…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Timothy Douglas , Roben Delos Reyes , Asanobu Kitamoto

A vast amount of textual web streams is influenced by events or phenomena emerging in the real world. The social web forms an excellent modern paradigm, where unstructured user generated content is published on a regular basis and in most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Vasileios Lampos

A principle bottleneck in image classification is the large number of training examples needed to train a classifier. Using active learning, we can reduce the number of training examples to teach a CNN classifier by strategically selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Thien Nhan Vo