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Flood hazard mapping is essential for disaster prevention but remains challenging in data-scarce regions, where traditional hydrodynamic models require extensive geophysical inputs. This paper introduces \textit{ZeroFlood}, a framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hyeongkyun Kim , Orestis Oikonomou

Depth map estimation from images is an important task in robotic systems. Existing methods can be categorized into two groups including multi-view stereo and monocular depth estimation. The former requires cameras to have large overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Jialei Xu , Xianming Liu , Yuanchao Bai , Junjun Jiang , Kaixuan Wang , Xiaozhi Chen , Xiangyang Ji

The increasing impact of human-induced climate change and unplanned urban constructions has increased flooding incidents in recent years. Accurate identification of flooded areas is crucial for effective disaster management and urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Muhammad Umair Danish , Madhushan Buwaneswaran , Tehara Fonseka , Katarina Grolinger

Floods are among the most destructive natural disasters, which are highly complex to model. The research on the advancement of flood prediction models contributed to risk reduction, policy suggestion, minimization of the loss of human life,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Amir Mosavi , Pinar Ozturk , Kwok-wing Chau

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

Depth cameras have found applications in diverse fields, such as computer vision, artificial intelligence, and video gaming. However, the high latency and low frame rate of existing commodity depth cameras impose limitations on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Peyman Gholami , Robert Xiao

In spite of astonishing advances and developments in remote sensing technologies, meeting the spatio-temporal requirements for flood hydrodynamic modeling remains a great challenge for Earth Observation. The assimilation of multi-source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sophie Ricci , Andrea Piacentini , Charlotte Emery , Raquel Rodriguez Suquet , Santiago Peña Luque

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Accurate depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene comprehension in robotics and autonomous vehicles. Fisheye cameras, known for their wide field of view, have inherent geometric benefits. However, their use in depth estimation is restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Guoyang Zhao , Yuxuan Liu , Weiqing Qi , Fulong Ma , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

Autonomous driving requires 3D maps that provide accurate and up-to-date information about semantic landmarks. Due to the wider availability and lower cost of cameras compared with laser scanners, vision-based mapping solutions, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Clayton Souza Leite , Yu Xiao

The accurate and fast estimation of velocity models is crucial in seismic imaging. Conventional methods, like Tomography and Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI), obtain appropriate velocity models; however, they require intense and specialized…

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

This paper as technology report is focusing on evaluation and performance about depth estimations based on lidar data and stereo images(front left and front right). The lidar 3d cloud data and stereo images are provided by ford. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Fei Wu , Luoyu Chen

With the rapid advancements in autonomous driving and robot navigation, there is a growing demand for lifelong learning models capable of estimating metric (absolute) depth. Lifelong learning approaches potentially offer significant cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Liguang Zhou , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

This paper introduces FlowMap, an end-to-end differentiable method that solves for precise camera poses, camera intrinsics, and per-frame dense depth of a video sequence. Our method performs per-video gradient-descent minimization of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Cameron Smith , David Charatan , Ayush Tewari , Vincent Sitzmann

Gated imaging is an emerging sensor technology for self-driving cars that provides high-contrast images even under adverse weather influence. It has been shown that this technology can even generate high-fidelity dense depth maps with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Stefanie Walz , Tobias Gruber , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer

As climate change intensifies, the urgency for accurate global-scale disaster predictions grows. This research presents a novel multimodal disaster prediction framework, combining weather statistics, satellite imagery, and textual insights.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Gengyin Liu , Huaiyang Zhong

This paper proposes a fast and accurate surface normal estimation method which can be directly used on depth maps (organized point clouds). The surface normal estimation process is formulated as a closed-form expression. In order to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Saed Moradi , Alireza Memarmoghadam , Denis Laurendeau

This paper introduces a novel approach for image and video orientation estimation by leveraging depth distribution in natural images. The proposed method estimates the orientation based on the depth distribution across different quadrants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Muhammad Z. Alam , Larry Stetsiuk , M. Umair Mukati , Zeeshan Kaleem