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Underground water and wastewater pipelines are vital for city operations but plagued by anomalies like leaks and infiltrations, causing substantial water loss, environmental damage, and high repair costs. Conventional manual inspections…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Qiming Guo , Bishal Khatri , Hua Zhang , Wenlu Wang

This study addresses the vital issue of real-time flood detection and management. It innovatively combines advanced deep learning models with Large language models (LLM), enhancing flood monitoring and response capabilities. This approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pranath Reddy Kumbam , Kshitij Maruti Vejre

Climate change and sea-level rise (SLR) pose escalating threats to coastal cities, intensifying the need for efficient and accurate methods to predict potential flood hazards. Traditional physics-based hydrodynamic simulators, although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Bilal Hassan , Areg Karapetyan , Aaron Chung Hin Chow , Samer Madanat

In this technical report we compare different deep learning models for prediction of water depth rasters at high spatial resolution. Efficient, accurate, and fast methods for water depth prediction are nowadays important as urban floods are…

Floods are one of nature's most catastrophic calamities which cause irreversible and immense damage to human life, agriculture, infrastructure and socio-economic system. Several studies on flood catastrophe management and flood forecasting…

We propose a framework that estimates inundation depth (maximum water level) and debris-flow-induced topographic deformation from remote sensing imagery by integrating deep learning and numerical simulation. A water and debris flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Naoto Yokoya , Kazuki Yamanoi , Wei He , Gerald Baier , Bruno Adriano , Hiroyuki Miura , Satoru Oishi

Background: Floods are the most common natural disaster in the world, affecting the lives of hundreds of millions. Flood forecasting is therefore a vitally important endeavor, typically achieved using physical water flow simulations, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Niv Giladi , Zvika Ben-Haim , Sella Nevo , Yossi Matias , Daniel Soudry

With a large number of populations, many problems are rising rapidly in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Water-logging is one of the major issues among them. Heavy rainfall, lack of awareness and poor maintenance causes bad sewerage…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Md Manirul Islam , Md. Sadad Mahamud , Umme Salsabil , A. A. M. Mazharul Amin , Samiul Haque Suman

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

This paper examines collaborative sensemaking during severe weather events through the emerging phenomenon of "weatherfluencers" or content creators who livestream meteorological interpretation on platforms like YouTube. Drawing from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Julie A. Vera , Mark Zachry , David W. McDonald

Floods cause extensive global damage annually, making effective monitoring essential. While satellite observations have proven invaluable for flood detection and tracking, comprehensive global flood datasets spanning extended time periods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Amit Misra , Kevin White , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , William Straka , Juan Lavista

We introduce a novel deep learning approach that harnesses the power of generative artificial intelligence to enhance the accuracy of contextual forecasting in sewerage systems. By developing a diffusion-based model that processes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nicholas A. Pearson , Francesca Cairoli , Luca Bortolussi , Davide Russo , Francesca Zanello

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

This paper addresses the challenges of an early flood warning caused by complex convective systems (CSs), by using Low-Earth Orbit and Geostationary satellite data. We focus on a sequence of extreme events that took place in central Vietnam…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Tran-Vu La , Thanh Huy Nguyen , Patrick Matgen , Marco Chini

Hydrodynamic flood modeling improves hydrologic and hydraulic prediction of storm events. However, the computationally intensive numerical solutions required for high-resolution hydrodynamics have historically prevented their implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Francisco Haces-Garcia , Natalya Maslennikova , Craig L Glennie , Hanadi S Rifai , Vedhus Hoskere , Nima Ekhtari

Event management in sensor networks is a multidisciplinary field involving several steps across the processing chain. In this paper, we discuss the major steps that should be performed in real- or near real-time event handling including…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Vassilis Papataxiarhis , Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

Extreme weather events pose significant challenges, thereby demanding techniques for accurate analysis and precise forecasting to mitigate its impact. In recent years, deep learning techniques have emerged as a promising approach for…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Shikha Verma , Kuldeep Srivastava , Akhilesh Tiwari , Shekhar Verma

We propose a novel search-and-rescue management method that relies on the aerial deployment of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for locating victims after floods. The sensor nodes will collect vital information such as heat signatures for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Harshil Bhatt , Pranesh G , Samarth Shankar , Shriyash Haralikar

Despite the dynamic development of computer vision algorithms, the implementation of perception and control systems for autonomous vehicles such as drones and self-driving cars still poses many challenges. A video stream captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Piotr Wzorek , Tomasz Kryjak

Timely and reliable decision-making is vital for flood emergency response, yet it remains severely hindered by limited and imprecise situational awareness due to various budget and data accessibility constraints. Traditional flood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Qian Sun , Graham Hults , Susu Xu