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Flooding remains a major global challenge, worsened by climate change and urbanization, demanding advanced solutions for effective disaster management. While traditional 2D flood mapping techniques provide limited insights, 3D flood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Wenfeng Jia , Bin Liang , Yuxi Liu , Muhammad Arif Khan , Lihong Zheng

Flash floods in urban areas occur with increasing frequency. Detecting these floods would greatlyhelp alleviate human and economic losses. However, current flood prediction methods are eithertoo slow or too simplified to capture the flood…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Kun Qian , Abduallah Mohamed , Christian Claudel

Visual scene understanding is the core task in making any crucial decision in any computer vision system. Although popular computer vision datasets like Cityscapes, MS-COCO, PASCAL provide good benchmarks for several tasks (e.g. image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Maryam Rahnemoonfar , Tashnim Chowdhury , Argho Sarkar , Debvrat Varshney , Masoud Yari , Robin Murphy

The operational flood forecasting system by Google was developed to provide accurate real-time flood warnings to agencies and the public, with a focus on riverine floods in large, gauged rivers. It became operational in 2018 and has since…

The temporal and spatial analysis of river dynamics is a key factor for studying and understanding human impacts on floodplains. To assess the changes taking place, it is necessary to have high-resolution images with a large spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Pierre Audisio , Barbara Belletti , Nelly Pustelnik

This study aims to simplify the current flood mapping methodology, so it can be done in quicker time, easy to learn, but still produce accurate flood information to support the emergency responses. This study is divided into two activities:…

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

This work aims to produce landslide density estimates using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imageries to prioritise emergency resources for rapid response. We use the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Landslide Inventory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Vanessa Boehm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollán

Urban flooding in arid regions poses severe risks to infrastructure and communities. Accurate, fine-scale mapping of flood extents and recovery trajectories is therefore essential for improving emergency response and resilience planning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xin Hong , Longchao Da , Hua Wei

Snow avalanches present significant risks to human life and infrastructure, particularly in mountainous regions, making effective monitoring crucial. Traditional monitoring methods, such as field observations, are limited by accessibility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Filippo Maria Bianchi , Jakob Grahn

Flooding is a destructive and dangerous hazard and climate change appears to be increasing the frequency of catastrophic flooding events around the world. Physics-based flood models are costly to calibrate and are rarely generalizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Chelsea Sidrane , Dylan J Fitzpatrick , Andrew Annex , Diane O'Donoghue , Yarin Gal , Piotr Biliński

Climate change is intensifying extreme weather events, causing both water scarcity and severe rainfall unpredictability, and posing threats to sustainable development, biodiversity, and access to water and sanitation. This paper aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Luigi Russo , Francesco Mauro , Babak Memar , Alessandro Sebastianelli , Paolo Gamba , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Computational complexity has been the bottleneck of applying physically-based simulations on large urban areas with high spatial resolution for efficient and systematic flooding analyses and risk assessments. To address this issue of long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Zifeng Guo , Joao P. Leitao , Nuno E. Simoes , Vahid Moosavi

In this paper, we address a new image forensics task, namely the detection of fake flood images generated by ClimateGAN architecture. We do so by proposing a hybrid deep learning architecture including both a detection and a localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Jun Wang , Omran Alamayreh , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Information on the depth of floodwater is crucial for rapid mapping of areas affected by floods. However, previous approaches for estimating floodwater depth, including field surveys, remote sensing, and machine learning techniques, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Temitope Akinboyewa , Huan Ning , M. Naser Lessani , Zhenlong Li

Floods are increasingly frequent natural disasters causing extensive human and economic damage, highlighting the critical need for rapid and accurate flood inundation mapping. While remote sensing technologies have advanced flood monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tomohiro Tanaka , Narumasa Tsutsumida

Accurate change detection from satellite imagery is essential for monitoring rapid mass-movement hazards such as snow avalanches, which increasingly threaten human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems due to their rising frequency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mattia Gatti , Alberto Mariani , Ignazio Gallo , Fabiano Monti

Floods are one of the most common disasters globally. Flood affects humans in many ways. Therefore, rapid assessment is needed to assess the effect of floods and to take early action to support the vulnerable community in time. Sentinel-1…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Surajit Ghosh , Arpan Dawn , Sneha Kour , Susmita Ghosh

Floods cause large losses to property, life, and livelihoods across the world every year, hindering sustainable development. Safety nets to help absorb financial shocks in disasters, such as insurance, are often unavailable in regions of…

Timely, accurate, and reliable information is essential for decision-makers, emergency managers, and infrastructure operators during flood events. This study demonstrates a proposed machine learning model, MaxFloodCast, trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Cheng-Chun Lee , Lipai Huang , Federico Antolini , Matthew Garcia , Andrew Juanb , Samuel D. Brody , Ali Mostafavi