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The Visual Sentiment Analysis task is being offered for the first time at MediaEval. The main purpose of the task is to predict the emotional response to images of natural disasters shared on social media. Disaster-related images are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Syed Zohaib Hassan , Kashif Ahmad , Michael A. Riegler , Steven Hicks , Nicola Conci , Paal Halvorsen , Ala Al-Fuqaha

Diagnosis of a clinical condition is a challenging task, which often requires significant medical investigation. Previous work related to diagnostic inferencing problems mostly consider multivariate observational data (e.g. physiological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Aaditya Prakash , Siyuan Zhao , Sadid A. Hasan , Vivek Datla , Kathy Lee , Ashequl Qadir , Joey Liu , Oladimeji Farri

Effective disaster management requires timely and accurate insights, yet traditional methods struggle to integrate multimodal data such as images, weather records, and textual reports. To address this, we propose DisasterNet-LLM, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Manaswi Kulahara , Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Nipun Joshi , Arpita Soni

The promising research on Artificial Intelligence usages in suicide prevention has principal gaps, including black box methodologies, inadequate outcome measures, and scarce research on non-verbal inputs, such as social media images…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yael Badian , Yaakov Ophir , Refael Tikochinski , Nitay Calderon , Anat Brunstein Klomek , Roi Reichart

Building accurate and robust artificial intelligence systems for medical image assessment requires not only the research and design of advanced deep learning models but also the creation of large and curated sets of annotated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Florin C. Ghesu , Bogdan Georgescu , Awais Mansoor , Youngjin Yoo , Dominik Neumann , Pragneshkumar Patel , R. S. Vishwanath , James M. Balter , Yue Cao , Sasa Grbic , Dorin Comaniciu

Along with climate change, more frequent extreme events, such as flooding and tropical cyclones, threaten the livelihoods and wellbeing of poor and vulnerable populations. One of the most immediate needs of people affected by a disaster is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Karla Saldana Ochoa , Tina Comes

Deep learning models have gained remarkable performance on a variety of image classification tasks. However, many models suffer from limited performance in clinical or medical settings when data are imbalanced. To address this challenge, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Long Gao , Chang Liu , Dooman Arefan , Ashok Panigrahy , Margarita L. Zuley , Shandong Wu

Social media such as tweets are emerging as platforms contributing to situational awareness during disasters. Information shared on Twitter by both affected population (e.g., requesting assistance, warning) and those outside the impact zone…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Hien To , Sumeet Agrawal , Seon Ho Kim , Cyrus Shahabi

During crisis events, people often use social media platforms such as Twitter to disseminate information about the situation, warnings, advice, and support. Emergency relief organizations leverage such information to acquire timely crisis…

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

Aerial scene classification, which aims to automatically label an aerial image with a specific semantic category, is a fundamental problem for understanding high-resolution remote sensing imagery. In recent years, it has become an active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Gui-Song Xia , Jingwen Hu , Fan Hu , Baoguang Shi , Xiang Bai , Yanfei Zhong , Liangpei Zhang

Medical image classification plays a crucial role in computer-aided clinical diagnosis. While deep learning techniques have significantly enhanced efficiency and reduced costs, the privacy-sensitive nature of medical imaging data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Sufen Ren , Yule Hu , Shengchao Chen , Guanjun Wang

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have made great achievements in Earth vision. However, complex disaster scenes with diverse disaster types, geographic regions, and satellite sensors have posed new challenges for VLM applications. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Junjue Wang , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Zhihao Liu , Kunyi Liu , Yuhan Wu , Hongruixuan Chen , Jian Song , Junshi Xia , Zhuo Zheng , Naoto Yokoya

Social media have been widely exploited to detect and gather relevant information about opinions and events. However, the relevance of the information is very subjective and rather depends on the application and the end-users. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Syed Zohaib , Kashif Ahmad , Nicola Conci , Ala Al-Fuqaha

The global increase in mental illness requires innovative detection methods for early intervention. Social media provides a valuable platform to identify mental illness through user-generated content. This systematic review examines machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuchen Cao , Jianglai Dai , Zhongyan Wang , Yeyubei Zhang , Xiaorui Shen , Yunchong Liu , Yexin Tian

Social media data has emerged as a useful source of timely information about real-world crisis events. One of the main tasks related to the use of social media for disaster management is the automatic identification of crisis-related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Cinthia Sánchez , Hernan Sarmiento , Andres Abeliuk , Jorge Pérez , Barbara Poblete

Rapid post-earthquake damage assessment is crucial for rescue and resource planning. Still, existing remote sensing methods depend on costly aerial images, expert labeling, and produce only binary damage maps for early-stage evaluation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Huili Huang , Chengeng Liu , Danrong Zhang , Shail Patel , Anastasiya Masalava , Sagar Sadak , Parisa Babolhavaeji , WeiHong Low , Max Mahdi Roozbahani , J. David Frost

After a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, millions are left in need of emergency assistance. To allocate resources optimally, human planners need to accurately analyze data that can flow in large volumes from several sources. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rohit Saha , Mengyi Fang , Angeline Yasodhara , Kyryl Truskovskyi , Azin Asgarian , Daniel Homola , Raahil Shah , Frederik Dieleman , Jack Weatheritt , Thomas Rogers

Mental health challenges and cyberbullying are increasingly prevalent in digital spaces, necessitating scalable and interpretable detection systems. This paper introduces a unified multiclass classification framework for detecting ten…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Edward Ajayi , Martha Kachweka , Mawuli Deku , Emily Aiken

During crises, social media serves as a crucial coordination tool, but the vast influx of posts--from "actionable" requests and offers to generic content like emotional support, behavioural guidance, or outdated information--complicates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Rabindra Lamsal , Maria Rodriguez Read , Shanika Karunasekera , Muhammad Imran

Research in media forensics has gained traction to combat the spread of misinformation. However, most of this research has been directed towards content generated on social media. Biomedical image forensics is a related problem, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Ekraam Sabir , Soumyaroop Nandi , Wael AbdAlmageed , Prem Natarajan