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During and after disasters, highways provide vital routes for emergency services, relief efforts, and evacuation activities. Thus, a timely and reliable assessment of disaster impacts on highways is critical for decision-makers to quickly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yudi Chen , Qi Wang , Wenying Ji

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

Social media has emerged as a valuable resource for disaster management, revolutionizing the way emergency response and recovery efforts are conducted during natural disasters. This review paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of…

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

In the aftermath of earthquakes, social media images have become a crucial resource for disaster reconnaissance, providing immediate insights into the extent of damage. Traditional approaches to damage severity assessment in post-earthquake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Danrong Zhang , Huili Huang , N. Simrill Smith , Nimisha Roy , J. David Frost

The increasing popularity of social networks and users' tendency towards sharing their feelings, expressions, and opinions in text, visual, and audio content, have opened new opportunities and challenges in sentiment analysis. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Syed Zohaib Hassan , Kashif Ahmad , Steven Hicks , Paal Halvorsen , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Nicola Conci , Michael Riegler

In order to respond effectively in the aftermath of a disaster, emergency services and relief organizations rely on timely and accurate information about the affected areas. Remote sensing has the potential to significantly reduce the time…

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

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

High-resolution satellite imagery available immediately after disaster events is crucial for response planning as it facilitates broad situational awareness of critical infrastructure status such as building damage, flooding, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Danil Kuzin , Olga Isupova , Brooke D. Simmons , Steven Reece

During natural and man-made disasters, people use social media platforms such as Twitter to post textual and multime- dia content to report updates about injured or dead people, infrastructure damage, and missing or found people among other…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Firoj Alam , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran

Humanitarian disasters and political violence cause significant damage to our living space. The reparation cost to homes, infrastructure, and the ecosystem is often difficult to quantify in real-time. Real-time quantification is critical to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Lili Lu , Weisi Guo

Social media analysis of disaster events is a critical task in crisis informatics research. It involves analyzing social media data generated during natural disasters, crisis events, or other mass convergence events. Due to the large data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Gerard Casas Saez

Efficient and effective assessment of acute and chronic wounds can help wound care teams in clinical practice to greatly improve wound diagnosis, optimize treatment plans, ease the workload and achieve health related quality of life to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-13 D. M. Anisuzzaman , Chuanbo Wang , Behrouz Rostami , Sandeep Gopalakrishnan , Jeffrey Niezgoda , Zeyun Yu

After a disaster, teams of structural engineers collect vast amounts of images from damaged buildings to obtain lessons and gain knowledge from the event. Images of damaged buildings and components provide valuable evidence to understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Chul Min Yeum , Ali Lenjani , Shirley J. Dyke , Ilias Bilionis

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

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

Social media have the potential to provide timely information about emergency situations and sudden events. However, finding relevant information among millions of posts being posted every day can be difficult, and developing a data…

New crisis response and management approaches that incorporate the latest information technologies are essential in all phases of emergency preparedness and response, including the planning, response, recovery, and assessment phases.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Ben Ortiz , Laura Kahn , Marc Bosch , Philip Bogden , Viveca Pavon-Harr , Onur Savas , Ian McCulloh

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

Timely and spatially resolved disaster impact assessment is essential for effective emergency response. However, automated methods typically struggle with temporal asynchrony. Real-time human reports capture peak hazard conditions while…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yiming Xiao , Kai Yin , Ali Mostafavi