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Quick and accurate assessment of the damage state of buildings after natural disasters is crucial for undertaking properly targeted rescue and subsequent recovery operations, which can have a major impact on the safety of victims and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Mateusz Żarski , Jarosław Adam Miszczak

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

During a disaster event, images shared on social media helps crisis managers gain situational awareness and assess incurred damages, among other response tasks. Recent advances in computer vision and deep neural networks have enabled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Firoj Alam , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Tanvirul Alam , Umair Qazi

In this paper, we study the problem of efficiently assessing building damage after natural disasters like hurricanes, floods or fires, through aerial video analysis. We make two main contributions. The first contribution is a new dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Xiaoyu Zhu , Junwei Liang , Alexander Hauptmann

Responding to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, and wildfires, is a laborious task performed by on-the-ground emergency responders and analysts. Social media has emerged as a low-latency data source to quickly understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Ethan Weber , Nuria Marzo , Dim P. Papadopoulos , Aritro Biswas , Agata Lapedriza , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Antonio Torralba

The analysis of natural disaster-related multimedia content got great attention in recent years. Being one of the most important sources of information, social media have been crawled over the years to collect and analyze disaster-related…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Naina Said , Kashif Ahmad , Michael Regular , Konstantin Pogorelov , Laiq Hassan , Nasir Ahmad , Nicola Conci

Natural disasters, such as floods, tornadoes, or wildfires, are increasingly pervasive as the Earth undergoes global warming. It is difficult to predict when and where an incident will occur, so timely emergency response is critical to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Ethan Weber , Dim P. Papadopoulos , Agata Lapedriza , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Antonio Torralba

Building damage detection after natural disasters like earthquakes is crucial for initiating effective emergency response actions. Remotely sensed very high spatial resolution (VHR) imagery can provide vital information due to their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jun Wang

Building-change detection underpins many important applications, especially in the military and crisis-management domains. Recent methods used for change detection have shifted towards deep learning, which depends on the quality of its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Li Shen , Yao Lu , Hao Chen , Hao Wei , Donghai Xie , Jiabao Yue , Rui Chen , Shouye Lv , Bitao Jiang

Accurate estimates of Above Ground Biomass (AGB) are essential in addressing two of humanity's biggest challenges: climate change and biodiversity loss. Existing datasets for AGB estimation from satellite imagery are limited. Either they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ghjulia Sialelli , Torben Peters , Jan D. Wegner , Konrad Schindler

Drones are being used to assess the situation in various disasters. In this study, we investigate a method to automatically estimate the damage status of people based on their actions in aerial drone images in order to understand disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tomoki Arai , Kenji Iwata , Kensho Hara , Yutaka Satoh

Natural disasters cause devastating damage to communities and infrastructure every year. Effective disaster response is hampered by the difficulty of accessing affected areas during and after events. Remote sensing has allowed us to monitor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shreelekha Revankar , Utkarsh Mall , Cheng Perng Phoo , Kavita Bala , Bharath Hariharan

Building detection from satellite multispectral imagery data is being a fundamental but a challenging problem mainly because it requires correct recovery of building footprints from high-resolution images. In this work, we propose a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Geesara Prathap , Ilya Afanasyev

Fire scene datasets are crucial for training robust computer vision models, particularly in tasks such as fire early warning and emergency rescue operations. However, among the currently available fire-related data, there is a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haozhou Zhai , Yanzhe Gao , Tianjiang Hu

This paper presents the first AI/ML system for automating building damage assessment in uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) imagery to be deployed operationally during federally declared disasters (Hurricanes Debby and Helene). In response to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thomas Manzini , Priyankari Perali , Robin R. Murphy

We introduce a new large-scale dataset for the advancement of object detection techniques and overhead object detection research. This satellite imagery dataset enables research progress pertaining to four key computer vision frontiers. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Darius Lam , Richard Kuzma , Kevin McGee , Samuel Dooley , Michael Laielli , Matthew Klaric , Yaroslav Bulatov , Brendan McCord

Developing a rapid, but also reliable and efficient, method for classifying the seismic damage potential of buildings constructed in countries with regions of high seismicity is always at the forefront of modern scientific research. Such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Konstantinos Kostinakis , Konstantinos Morfidis , Konstantinos Demertzis , Lazaros Iliadis

This paper presents a few comprehensive experimental studies for automated Structural Damage Detection (SDD) in extreme events using deep learning methods for processing 2D images. In the first study, a 152-layer Residual network (ResNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yongsheng Bai , Bing Zha , Halil Sezen , Alper Yilmaz

This document presents the Center for Robot Assisted Search And Rescue - Uncrewed Aerial Systems - Disaster Response Overhead Inspection Dataset (CRASAR-U-DROIDs) for building damage assessment and spatial alignment collected from small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Thomas Manzini , Priyankari Perali , Raisa Karnik , Robin Murphy

Building recognition and 3D reconstruction of human made structures in urban scenarios has become an interesting and actual topic in the image processing domain. For this research topic the Computer Vision and Augmented Reality areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Orhei Ciprian , Vert Silviu , Mocofan Muguras , Vasiu Radu