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The detection of flooded areas using high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a critical task with applications in crisis and disaster management, as well as environmental resource planning. However, the complex nature of…

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Large-scale datasets have driven the rapid development of deep neural networks for visual recognition. However, annotating a massive dataset is expensive and time-consuming. Web images and their labels are, in comparison, much easier to…

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Adverse weather image restoration aims to remove unwanted degraded artifacts, such as haze, rain, and snow, caused by adverse weather conditions. Existing methods achieve remarkable results for addressing single-weather conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hsing-Hua Wang , Fu-Jen Tsai , Yen-Yu Lin , Chia-Wen Lin

In the field of crisis/disaster informatics, social media is increasingly being used for improving situational awareness to inform response and relief efforts. Efficient and accurate text classification tools have been a focal area of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Kai Yin , Bo Li , Chengkai Liu , Ali Mostafavi , Xia Hu

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

Social media is often utilized as a lifeline for communication during natural disasters. Traditionally, natural disaster tweets are filtered from the Twitter stream using the name of the natural disaster and the filtered tweets are sent for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ramya Tekumalla , Juan M. Banda

Incorporating deep learning (DL) classification models into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can significantly augment search-and-rescue operations and disaster management efforts. In such critical situations, the UAV's ability to promptly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Gao Yu Lee , Tanmoy Dam , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Daniel Puiu Poenar , Vu N. Duong

Natural disaster assessment relies on accurate and rapid access to information, with social media emerging as a valuable real-time source. However, existing datasets suffer from class imbalance and limited samples, making effective model…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Adrian-Dinu Urse , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop

Satellite images are an extremely valuable resource in the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis where they can be used for risk assessment and disaster management. In order to provide timely and actionable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Ananya Gupta , Simon Watson , Hujun Yin

It is a challenging and complex task to acquire information from different regions of a disaster-affected area in a timely fashion. The extensive spread and reach of social media and networks allow people to share information in real-time.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Md. Yasin Kabir , Sanjay Madria

Floods are among the most frequent and catastrophic natural disasters and affect millions of people worldwide. It is important to create accurate flood maps to plan (offline) and conduct (real-time) flood mitigation and flood rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 P. Chaudhary , S. D'Aronco , J. P. Leitao , K. Schindler , J. D. Wegner

Multimedia content in social media platforms provides significant information during disaster events. The types of information shared include reports of injured or deceased people, infrastructure damage, and missing or found people, among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Ferda Ofli , Firoj Alam , Muhammad Imran

I propose a novel dual-attention model(DAM) for aspect-level sentiment classification. Many methods have been proposed, such as support vector machines for artificial design features, long short-term memory networks based on attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mengfei Ye

The rising incidence of natural and human-induced disasters necessitates robust visual recognition systems capable of operating under limited labeled data conditions. However, disaster-related image classification remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Gao Yu Lee , Tanmoy Dam , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Daniel Puiu Poenar , Vu Duong

Earth observation technologies, such as optical imaging and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), provide excellent means to monitor ever-growing urban environments continuously. Notably, in the case of large-scale disasters (e.g., tsunamis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Bruno Adriano , Naoto Yokoya , Junshi Xia , Hiroyuki Miura , Wen Liu , Masashi Matsuoka , Shunichi Koshimura

Depth estimation is an essential task toward full scene understanding since it allows the projection of rich semantic information captured by cameras into 3D space. While the field has gained much attention recently, datasets for depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Markus Schön , Jona Ruof , Thomas Wodtko , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

With the development of the Internet, social media has become an important channel for posting disaster-related information. Analyzing attitudes hidden in these texts, known as sentiment analysis, is crucial for the government or relief…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Lingyu Meng , Zhijie Sasha Dong

We explore the implementation of deep learning techniques for precise building damage assessment in the context of natural hazards, utilizing remote sensing data. The xBD dataset, comprising diverse disaster events from across the globe,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Maximilian Nitsche , S. Karthik Mukkavilli , Niklas Kühl , Thomas Brunschwiler

Despite impressive advancements in Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), navigation in complex road conditions remains a challenging problem. There is considerable evidence that evaluating the subjective risk level of various decisions can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Shih-Yuan Yu , Arnav V. Malawade , Deepan Muthirayan , Pramod P. Khargonekar , Mohammad A. Al Faruque

Within (semi-)automated visual inspection, learning-based approaches for assessing visual defects, including deep neural networks, enable the processing of otherwise small defect patterns in pixel size on high-resolution imagery. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 André Luiz B. Vieira e Silva , Francisco Simões , Danny Kowerko , Tobias Schlosser , Felipe Battisti , Veronica Teichrieb