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The Earth's surface is constantly changing, and detecting these changes provides valuable insights that benefit various aspects of human society. While traditional change detection methods have been employed to detect changes from…

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Damage identification is a core task in structural health monitoring. In practice, however, its reliability is often compromised by confounding non-damage effects, such as variations in excitation and environmental conditions, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xudong Jian , Charikleia Stoura , Simon Scandella , Eleni Chatzi

Climate change has led to an increased frequency of natural disasters such as floods and cyclones. This emphasizes the importance of effective disaster monitoring. In response, the remote sensing community has explored change detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Youngtack Oh , Minseok Seo , Doyi Kim , Junghoon Seo

This paper addresses the problem of floods classification and floods aftermath detection utilizing both social media and satellite imagery. Automatic detection of disasters such as floods is still a very challenging task. The focus lies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Kashif Ahmad , Konstantin Pogorelov , Michael Riegler , Olga Ostroukhova , Paal Halvorsen , Nicola Conci , Rozenn Dahyot

Earthquake-induced secondary ground failure hazards, such as liquefaction and landslides, result in catastrophic building and infrastructure damage as well as human fatalities. To facilitate emergency responses and mitigate losses, the U.S.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Susu Xu , Joshua Dimasaka , David J. Wald , Hae Young Noh

The definition of anomaly detection is the identification of an unexpected event. Real-time detection of extreme events such as wildfires, cyclones, or floods using satellite data has become crucial for disaster management. Although several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Akash Awasthi , Son Ly , Jaer Nizam , Samira Zare , Videet Mehta , Safwan Ahmed , Keshav Shah , Ramakrishna Nemani , Saurabh Prasad , Hien Van Nguyen

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

Timely and accurate detection of hurricane debris is critical for effective disaster response and community resilience. While post-disaster aerial imagery is readily available, robust debris segmentation solutions applicable across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Kooshan Amini , Yuhao Liu , Jamie Ellen Padgett , Guha Balakrishnan , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Accurate flood detection from visual data is a critical step toward improving disaster response and risk assessment, yet datasets for flood segmentation remain scarce due to the challenges of collecting and annotating large-scale imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Georgios Simantiris , Konstantinos Bacharidis , Apostolos Papanikolaou , Petros Giannakakis , Costas Panagiotakis

Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typically rely on computationally intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Ayush Varshney , Katherine L. Bouman , Berthy T. Feng

The recent emergence of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology has facilitated the effective capture of traffic-induced seismic data. The traffic-induced seismic wave is a prominent contributor to urban vibrations and contain crucial…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Xi Wang , Xin Liu , Songming Zhu , Zhanwen Li , Lina Gao

Timely disaster risk management requires accurate road maps and prompt damage assessment. Currently, this is done by volunteers manually marking satellite imagery of affected areas but this process is slow and often error-prone.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ananya Gupta , Elisabeth Welburn , Simon Watson , Hujun Yin

Reliable plant species and damage segmentation for herbicide field research trials requires models that can withstand substantial real-world variation across seasons, geographies, devices, and sensing modalities. Most deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Artzai Picon , Itziar Eguskiza , Daniel Mugica , Javier Romero , Carlos Javier Jimenez , Eric White , Gabriel Do-Lago-Junqueira , Christian Klukas , Ramon Navarra-Mestre

Existing data on building destruction in conflict zones rely on eyewitness reports or manual detection, which makes it generally scarce, incomplete and potentially biased. This lack of reliable data imposes severe limitations for media…

General Economics · Economics 2021-07-07 Hannes Mueller , Andre Groger , Jonathan Hersh , Andrea Matranga , Joan Serrat

This paper presents the largest known benchmark dataset for road damage assessment and road alignment, and provides 18 baseline models trained on the CRASAR-U-DRIODs dataset's post-disaster small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) imagery from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Thomas Manzini , Priyankari Perali , Raisa Karnik , Robin R. Murphy

Datasets collected from the open world unavoidably suffer from various forms of randomness or noiseness, leading to the ubiquity of aleatoric (data) uncertainty. Quantifying such uncertainty is particularly pivotal for object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Peng Cui , Guande He , Dan Zhang , Zhijie Deng , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu

Roads are an essential mode of transportation, and maintaining them is critical to economic growth and citizen well-being. With the continued advancement of AI, road surface inspection based on camera images has recently been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Linh Trinh , Ali Anwar , Siegfried Mercelis

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), equipped with camera sensors can facilitate enhanced situational awareness for many emergency response and disaster management applications since they are capable of operating in remote and difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

In recent years, several companies and researchers have started to tackle the problem of damage recognition within the scope of automated inspection of built structures. While companies are neither willing to publish associated data nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Johannes Flotzinger , Philipp J. Rösch , Norbert Oswald , Thomas Braml

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to generalize a learning model across training and testing data despite the mismatch of their data distributions. In light of a theoretical estimation of upper error bound, we argue in this paper that an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Lingkun Luo , Liming Chen , Shiqiang Hu , Ying Lu , Xiaofang Wang