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Graph-structured data such as social networks, functional brain networks, gene regulatory networks, communications networks have brought the interest in generalizing deep learning techniques to graph domains. In this paper, we are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Xavier Bresson , Thomas Laurent

The use of satellite imagery has become increasingly popular for disaster monitoring and response. After a disaster, it is important to prioritize rescue operations, disaster response and coordinate relief efforts. These have to be carried…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jigar Doshi , Saikat Basu , Guan Pang

An important step for limiting the negative impact of natural disasters is rapid damage assessment after a disaster occurred. For instance, building damage detection can be automated by applying computer vision techniques to satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Vitus Benson , Alexander Ecker

With the rapid expansion of mobile phone networks in developing countries, large-scale graph machine learning has gained sudden relevance in the study of global poverty. Recent applications range from humanitarian response and poverty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Muhammad Raza Khan , Joshua E. Blumenstock

Classification of the extent of damage suffered by a building in a seismic event is crucial from the safety perspective and repairing work. In this study, authors have proposed a CNN based autonomous damage detection model. Over 1200 images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Dhananjay Nahata , Harish Kumar Mulchandani , Suraj Bansal , G Muthukumar

Due to the extensive availability of operation data, data-driven methods show strong capabilities in predicting building energy loads. Buildings with similar features often share energy patterns, reflected by spatial dependencies in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yongzheng Liu , Yiming Wang , Po Xu , Yingjie Xu , Yuntian Chen , Dongxiao Zhang

Advanced graph neural networks have shown great potentials in graph classification tasks recently. Different from node classification where node embeddings aggregated from local neighbors can be directly used to learn node labels, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Hao Jia , Junzhong Ji , Minglong Lei

The digitalization of automation engineering generates large quantities of engineering data that is interlinked in knowledge graphs. Classifying and clustering subgraphs according to their functionality is useful to discover functionally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Jiang Wan , Blake S. Pollard , Sujit Rokka Chhetri , Palash Goyal , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque , Arquimedes Canedo

We present xBD, a new, large-scale dataset for the advancement of change detection and building damage assessment for humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery research. Natural disaster response requires an accurate understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Ritwik Gupta , Richard Hosfelt , Sandra Sajeev , Nirav Patel , Bryce Goodman , Jigar Doshi , Eric Heim , Howie Choset , Matthew Gaston

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

Natural disasters demand rapid damage assessment to guide humanitarian response. Here, we investigate whether medium-resolution Earth observation images from the Copernicus program can support building damage assessment, complementing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Olivier Dietrich , Merlin Alfredsson , Emilia Arens , Nando Metzger , Torben Peters , Linus Scheibenreif , Jan Dirk Wegner , Konrad Schindler

After a disaster, teams of structural engineers collect vast amounts of images from damaged buildings to obtain new knowledge and extract lessons from the event. However, in many cases, the images collected are captured without sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Ali Lenjani , Chul Min Yeum , Shirley Dyke , Ilias Bilionis

Two architectures that generalize convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the processing of signals supported on graphs are introduced. We start with the selection graph neural network (GNN), which replaces linear time invariant filters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-30 Fernando Gama , Antonio G. Marques , Geert Leus , Alejandro Ribeiro

Accurate building damage assessment using bi-temporal multi-modal remote sensing images is essential for effective disaster response and recovery planning. This study proposes a novel Building-Guided Pseudo-Label Learning Framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jiepan Li , He Huang , Yu Sheng , Yujun Guo , Wei He

This paper proposes a new Quantum Spatial Graph Convolutional Neural Network (QSGCNN) model that can directly learn a classification function for graphs of arbitrary sizes. Unlike state-of-the-art Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Lu Bai , Yuhang Jiao , Luca Rossi , Lixin Cui , Jian Cheng , Edwin R. Hancock

Natural disasters act as a serious threat globally, requiring effective and efficient disaster management and recovery. This paper focuses on classifying natural disaster images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Multiple CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Archit Rathod , Veer Pariawala , Mokshit Surana , Kumkum Saxena

Many post-disaster and -conflict regions do not have sufficient data on their transportation infrastructure assets, hindering both mobility and reconstruction. In particular, as the number of aging and deteriorating bridges increase, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Arya Pamuncak , Weisi Guo , Ahmed Soliman Khaled , Irwanda Laory

This paper presents a few comprehensive experimental studies for automated Structural Damage Detection (SDD) in extreme events using deep learning methods for processing 2D images. In the first study, a 152-layer Residual network (ResNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yongsheng Bai , Bing Zha , Halil Sezen , Alper Yilmaz

We investigate the capabilities of transfer learning in the area of structural health monitoring. In particular, we are interested in damage detection for concrete structures. Typical image datasets for such problems are relatively small,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zaharah A. Bukhsh , Nils Jansen , Aaqib Saeed

Systematic relations between multiple objects that occur in various fields can be represented as networks. Real-world networks typically exhibit complex topologies whose structural properties are key factors in characterizing and further…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-09 Yoshihisa Tanaka , Ryosuke Kojima , Shoichi Ishida , Fumiyoshi Yamashita , Yasushi Okuno