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The detrimental impacts of climate change include stronger and more destructive hurricanes happening all over the world. Identifying different damaged structures of an area including buildings and roads are vital since it helps the rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Tashnim Chowdhury , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

In recent years, several companies and researchers have started to tackle the problem of damage recognition within the scope of automated inspection of built structures. While companies are neither willing to publish associated data nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Johannes Flotzinger , Philipp J. Rösch , Norbert Oswald , Thomas Braml

Post-disaster assessments of buildings and infrastructure are crucial for both immediate recovery efforts and long-term resilience planning. This research introduces an innovative approach to automating post-disaster assessments through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Robinson Umeike , Thang Dao , Shane Crawford

Rapid and accurate building damage assessments from high-resolution satellite imagery following a natural disaster is essential to inform and optimize first responder efforts. However, performing such building damage assessments in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Caleb Robinson , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , Anthony Ortiz , Tina Sederholm , Rahul Dodhia , Cameron Birge , Kasie Richards , Kris Pitcher , Paulo Duarte , Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Rapid, accurate, and descriptive building damage assessment is critical for directing post-disaster resources, yet current automated methods typically provide only binary (damaged/undamaged) or ordinal severity scales. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yiming Xiao , Ali Mostafavi

We present a simple and efficient method to leverage emerging text-to-image generative models in creating large-scale synthetic supervision for the task of damage assessment from aerial images. While significant recent advances have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Tarun Kalluri , Jihyeon Lee , Kihyuk Sohn , Sahil Singla , Manmohan Chandraker , Joseph Xu , Jeremiah Liu

Wildfire monitoring and prediction are essential for understanding wildfire behaviour. With extensive Earth observation data, these tasks can be integrated and enhanced through multi-task deep learning models. We present a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yu Zhao , Sebastian Gerard , Yifang Ban

This study aims to enable more reliable automated post-disaster building damage classification using artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-view imagery. The current practices and research efforts in adopting AI for post-disaster damage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Asim Bashir Khajwal , Chih-Shen Cheng , Arash Noshadravan

Timely assessment of structural damage is critical for disaster response and recovery. However, most prior work in natural disaster analysis relies on 2D imagery, which lacks depth, suffers from occlusions, and provides limited spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nhut Le , Ehsan Karimi , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Thousands of human lives are lost every year around the globe, apart from significant damage on property, animal life, etc., due to natural disasters (e.g., earthquake, flood, tsunami, hurricane and other storms, landslides, cloudburst,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Saptarsi Goswami , Sanjay Chakraborty , Sanhita Ghosh , Amlan Chakrabarti , Basabi Chakraborty

Disaster Management is one of the most promising research areas because of its significant economic, environmental and social repercussions. This research focuses on analyzing different types of data (pre and post satellite images and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Sukeerthi Mandyam , Shanmuga Priya MG , Shalini Suresh , Kavitha Srinivasan

Earthquakes and tropical cyclones cause the suffering of millions of people around the world every year. The resulting landslides exacerbate the effects of these disasters. Landslide detection is, therefore, a critical task for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Masanari Kimura

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) and its subsequent variants have led to remarkable progress in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). While most recent 3DGS-based SLAM works focus on small-scale indoor scenes, developing 3DGS-based SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhicong Sun , Jacqueline Lo , Jinxing Hu

In robotics and computer vision communities, extensive studies have been widely conducted regarding surveillance tasks, including human detection, tracking, and motion recognition with a camera. Additionally, deep learning algorithms are…

Seismic assessment of buildings and determination of their structural damage is at the forefront of modern scientific research. Since now, several researchers have proposed a number of procedures, in an attempt to estimate the damage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Konstantinos Demertzis , Konstantinos Kostinakis , Konstantinos Morfidis , Lazaros Iliadis

We introduce Breaking Bad, a large-scale dataset of fractured objects. Our dataset consists of over one million fractured objects simulated from ten thousand base models. The fracture simulation is powered by a recent physically based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Silvia Sellán , Yun-Chun Chen , Ziyi Wu , Animesh Garg , Alec Jacobson

Monitoring of disasters is crucial for mitigating their effects on the environment and human population, and can be facilitated by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), equipped with camera sensors that produce aerial photos of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Andreas Kamilaris , Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldú

Buildings play a crucial role in human well-being, influencing occupant comfort, health, and safety. Additionally, they contribute significantly to global energy consumption, accounting for one-third of total energy usage, and carbon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Arian Prabowo , Xiachong Lin , Imran Razzak , Hao Xue , Emily W. Yap , Matthew Amos , Flora D. Salim

Post-hurricane damage assessment is crucial towards managing resource allocations and executing an effective response. Traditionally, this evaluation is performed through field reconnaissance, which is slow, hazardous, and arduous. Instead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jimmy Bao

Building change detection is essential for monitoring urbanization, disaster assessment, urban planning and frequently updating the maps. 3D structure information from airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is very effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ritu Yadav , Andrea Nascetti , Yifang Ban