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Object counting, whose aim is to estimate the number of objects from a given image, is an important and challenging computation task. Significant efforts have been devoted to addressing this problem and achieved great progress, yet counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Guangshuai Gao , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Recent advancements in computer vision and deep learning techniques have facilitated notable progress in scene understanding, thereby assisting rescue teams in achieving precise damage assessment. In this paper, we present RescueNet, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Maryam Rahnemoonfar , Tashnim Chowdhury , Robin Murphy

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

Scene understanding is a prerequisite to many high level tasks for any automated intelligent machine operating in real world environments. Recent attempts with supervised learning have shown promise in this direction but also highlighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Ankur Handa , Viorica Patraucean , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Simon Stent , Roberto Cipolla

Detection and localization of fire in images and videos are important in tackling fire incidents. Although semantic segmentation methods can be used to indicate the location of pixels with fire in the images, their predictions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Milad Niknejad , Alexandre Bernardino

Predicting wildfire spread is critical for land management and disaster preparedness. To this end, we present `Next Day Wildfire Spread,' a curated, large-scale, multivariate data set of historical wildfires aggregating nearly a decade of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Fantine Huot , R. Lily Hu , Nita Goyal , Tharun Sankar , Matthias Ihme , Yi-Fan Chen

Rapid damage assessment is of crucial importance to emergency responders during hurricane events, however, the evaluation process is often slow, labor-intensive, costly, and error-prone. New advances in computer vision and remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Sean Andrew Chen , Andrew Escay , Christopher Haberland , Tessa Schneider , Valentina Staneva , Youngjun Choe

Visible images offer rich texture details, while infrared images emphasize salient targets. Fusing these complementary modalities enhances scene understanding, particularly for advanced vision tasks under challenging conditions. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Beining Xu , Junxian Li

Among the different kinds of fire accidents that can occur during industrial activities that involve hazardous materials, jet fires are one of the lesser-known types. This is because they are often involved in a process that generates a…

Small, fast, and lightweight drones present significant challenges for traditional RGB cameras due to their limitations in capturing fast-moving objects, especially under challenging lighting conditions. Event cameras offer an ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gabriele Magrini , Niccolò Marini , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Niccolò Biondi , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo

The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires highlight the need for accurate fire and plume spread models. We introduce an approach that effectively isolates and tracks fire and plume behavior across various spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Daryn Sagel , Bryan Quaife

Intelligent detection and processing capabilities can be instrumental to improving the safety, efficiency, and successful completion of rescue missions conducted by firefighters in emergency first response settings. The objective of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Manish Bhattarai , Manel Martínez-Ramón

This paper describes the COCO-Text dataset. In recent years large-scale datasets like SUN and Imagenet drove the advancement of scene understanding and object recognition. The goal of COCO-Text is to advance state-of-the-art in text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Andreas Veit , Tomas Matera , Lukas Neumann , Jiri Matas , Serge Belongie

Climate change is expected to aggravate wildfire activity through the exacerbation of fire weather. Improving our capabilities to anticipate wildfires on a global scale is of uttermost importance for mitigating their negative effects. In…

The development of computer vision algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications in urban environments heavily relies on the availability of large-scale datasets with accurate annotations. However, collecting and annotating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Francesco Barbato , Matteo Caligiuri , Pietro Zanuttigh

Humans use UAVs to monitor changes in forest environments since they are lightweight and provide a large variety of surveillance data. However, their information does not present enough details for understanding the scene which is needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca-Cerasela-Zelia Blaga , Sergiu Nedevschi

The remarkable ease of use of diffusion models for image generation has led to a proliferation of synthetic content online. While these models are often employed for legitimate purposes, they are also used to generate fake images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Giulia Bertazzini , Daniele Baracchi , Dasara Shullani , Isao Echizen , Alessandro Piva

We present the Wildland-fire Infrared Thermal (WIT-UAS) dataset for long-wave infrared sensing of crew and vehicle assets amidst prescribed wildland fire environments. While such a dataset is crucial for safety monitoring in wildland fire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Andrew Jong , Mukai Yu , Devansh Dhrafani , Siva Kailas , Brady Moon , Katia Sycara , Sebastian Scherer

Camouflaged objects that blend into natural scenes pose significant challenges for deep-learning models to detect and synthesize. While camouflaged object detection is a crucial task in computer vision with diverse real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haichao Zhang , Can Qin , Yu Yin , Yun Fu

Emergency events involving fire are potentially harmful, demanding a fast and precise decision making. The use of crowdsourcing image and videos on crisis management systems can aid in these situations by providing more information than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Daniel Y. T. Chino , Letricia P. S. Avalhais , Jose F. Rodrigues , Agma J. M. Traina