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Natural disasters pose significant challenges to timely and accurate damage assessment due to their sudden onset and the extensive areas they affect. Traditional assessment methods are often labor-intensive, costly, and hazardous to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Catherine Hoier , Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

In the field of post-disaster assessment, for timely and accurate rescue and localization after a disaster, people need to know the location of damaged buildings. In deep learning, some scholars have proposed methods to make automatic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Zaishuo Xia , Zelin Li , Yanbing Bai , Jinze Yu , Bruno Adriano

Near real-time damage diagnosis of building structures after extreme events (e.g., earthquakes) is of great importance in structural health monitoring. Unlike conventional methods that are usually time-consuming and require human expertise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Seyed Omid Sajedi , Xiao Liang

Building detection from satellite multispectral imagery data is being a fundamental but a challenging problem mainly because it requires correct recovery of building footprints from high-resolution images. In this work, we propose a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Geesara Prathap , Ilya Afanasyev

Buildings classification using satellite images is becoming more important for several applications such as damage assessment, resource allocation, and population estimation. We focus, in this work, on buildings damage assessment (BDA) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Mohammad Dimassi , Abed Ellatif Samhat , Mohammad Zaraket , Jamal Haidar , Mustafa Shukor , Ali J. Ghandour

With climate change predicted to increase the likelihood of landslide events, there is a growing need for rapid landslide detection technologies that help inform emergency responses. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a remote sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Vanessa Boehm , Wei Ji Leong , Ragini Bal Mahesh , Ioannis Prapas , Edoardo Nemni , Freddie Kalaitzis , Siddha Ganju , Raul Ramos-Pollan

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

During a disaster event, images shared on social media helps crisis managers gain situational awareness and assess incurred damages, among other response tasks. Recent advances in computer vision and deep neural networks have enabled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Firoj Alam , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Tanvirul Alam , Umair Qazi

Post-hurricane damage assessment is crucial towards managing resource allocations and executing an effective response. Traditionally, this evaluation is performed through field reconnaissance, which is slow, hazardous, and arduous. Instead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jimmy Bao

After a disaster, teams of structural engineers collect vast amounts of images from damaged buildings to obtain lessons and gain knowledge from the event. Images of damaged buildings and components provide valuable evidence to understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Chul Min Yeum , Ali Lenjani , Shirley J. Dyke , Ilias Bilionis

Automatic damage assessment based on UAV-derived 3D point clouds can provide fast information on the damage situation after an earthquake. However, the assessment of multiple damage grades is challenging due to the variety in damage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Vivien Zahs , Katharina Anders , Julia Kohns , Alexander Stark , Bernhard Höfle

In the aftermath of earthquakes, social media images have become a crucial resource for disaster reconnaissance, providing immediate insights into the extent of damage. Traditional approaches to damage severity assessment in post-earthquake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Danrong Zhang , Huili Huang , N. Simrill Smith , Nimisha Roy , J. David Frost

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

We present a procedure for assessing the urban exposure and seismic vulnerability that integrates LiDAR data with aerial and satellite images. It comprises three phases: first, we segment the satellite image to divide the study area into…

An automated, real-time, multiple sensor data source relying and globally applicable earthquake loss model and visualiser is desirable for post-event earthquake analysis. To achieve this there is a need to support rapid data ingestion, loss…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Anthony Astoul , Christopher Filliter , Eric Mason , Andrew Rau-Chaplin , Kunal Shridhar , Blesson Varghese , Naman Varshney

Timely assessment of structural damage is critical for disaster response and recovery. However, most prior work in natural disaster analysis relies on 2D imagery, which lacks depth, suffers from occlusions, and provides limited spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nhut Le , Ehsan Karimi , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Seismic phase picking and magnitude estimation are essential components of real time earthquake monitoring and earthquake early warning systems. Reliable phase picking enables the timely detection of seismic wave arrivals, facilitating…

In the aftermath of major earthquakes, evaluating structural and infrastructural damage is vital for coordinating post-disaster response efforts. This includes assessing damage's extent and spatial distribution to prioritize rescue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Anurag Panda , Gaurav Kumar Yadav

High-resolution satellite imagery available immediately after disaster events is crucial for response planning as it facilitates broad situational awareness of critical infrastructure status such as building damage, flooding, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Danil Kuzin , Olga Isupova , Brooke D. Simmons , Steven Reece

The joint interpretation of very high resolution SAR and optical images in dense urban area are not trivial due to the distinct imaging geometry of the two types of images. Especially, the inevitable layover caused by the side-looking SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu