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Social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. During time-critical events, the public shares a variety of posts on social media including reports for resource needs, damages, and help offerings for the affected community.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Ganesh Nalluru , Rahul Pandey , Hemant Purohit

Recent developments in image classification and natural language processing, coupled with the rapid growth in social media usage, have enabled fundamental advances in detecting breaking events around the world in real-time. Emergency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Mahdi Abavisani , Liwei Wu , Shengli Hu , Joel Tetreault , Alejandro Jaimes

Social media imagery provides a low-latency source of situational information during natural and human-induced disasters, enabling rapid damage assessment and response. While Visual Question Answering (VQA) has shown strong performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aisha Al-Mohannadi , Ayisha Firoz , Yin Yang , Muhammad Imran , Ferda Ofli

Lack of global data inventories obstructs scientific modeling of and response to landslide hazards which are oftentimes deadly and costly. To remedy this limitation, new approaches suggest solutions based on citizen science that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Umair Qazi , Julien Roch , Catherine Pennington , Vanessa J. Banks , Remy Bossu

Social media plays a significant role in sharing essential information, which helps humanitarian organizations in rescue operations during and after disaster incidents. However, developing an efficient method that can provide rapid analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Soroor Shekarizadeh , Razieh Rastgoo , Saif Al-Kuwari , Mohammad Sabokrou

The role of social media, in particular microblogging platforms such as Twitter, as a conduit for actionable and tactical information during disasters is increasingly acknowledged. However, time-critical analysis of big crisis data on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Dat Tien Nguyen , Kamela Ali Al Mannai , Shafiq Joty , Hassan Sajjad , Muhammad Imran , Prasenjit Mitra

Social media has enabled people to circulate information in a timely fashion, thus motivating people to post messages seeking help during crisis situations. These messages can contribute to the situational awareness of emergency responders,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Congcong Wang , Paul Nulty , David Lillis

Natural disasters remain a major challenge for Bangladesh, so real-time monitoring and quick response systems are essential. In this study, we present BanglaMM-Disaster, an end-to-end deep learning-based multimodal framework for disaster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ariful Islam , Md Rifat Hossen , Md. Mahmudul Arif , Abdullah Al Noman , Md Arifur Rahman

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

Recent advancements in computer vision and deep learning techniques have facilitated notable progress in scene understanding, thereby assisting rescue teams in achieving precise damage assessment. In this paper, we present RescueNet, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Maryam Rahnemoonfar , Tashnim Chowdhury , Robin Murphy

While the field of medical image analysis has undergone a transformative shift with the integration of machine learning techniques, the main challenge of these techniques is often the scarcity of large, diverse, and well-annotated datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Stefano Woerner , Arthur Jaques , Christian F. Baumgartner

Advances in social media data dissemination enable the provision of real-time information during a crisis. The information comes from different classes, such as infrastructure damages, persons missing or stranded in the affected zone, etc.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Thi Huyen Nguyen , Koustav Rudra , Wolfgang Nejdl

Natural disasters not only cause large-scale physical destruction, but also cascading social consequences that are difficult to quantify with traditional surveys and reports. Social media platforms offer an alternative perspective that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ruichen Yao , Tejna Dasari , Xuanyu Meng , Elliot Cao , Zelin Li , Yifan Liu , Yaokun Liu , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook etc can be utilised as an important source of information during disaster events. This information can be used for disaster response and crisis management if processed accurately and quickly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Aman Priyanshu , Mudit Sinha , Shreyans Mehta

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

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

Understanding the relationship between figures and text is key to scientific document understanding. Medical figures in particular are quite complex, often consisting of several subfigures (75% of figures in our dataset), with detailed text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Sanjay Subramanian , Lucy Lu Wang , Sachin Mehta , Ben Bogin , Madeleine van Zuylen , Sravanthi Parasa , Sameer Singh , Matt Gardner , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

The shared real-time information about natural disasters on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook plays a critical role in informing volunteers, emergency managers, and response organizations. However, supervised learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Henry Peng Zou , Yue Zhou , Cornelia Caragea , Doina Caragea

The milestone improvements brought about by deep representation learning and pre-training techniques have led to large performance gains across downstream NLP, IR and Vision tasks. Multimodal modeling techniques aim to leverage large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Krishna Srinivasan , Karthik Raman , Jiecao Chen , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork

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…

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