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Flooding is one of the most destructive and costly natural disasters, and climate changes would further increase risks globally. This work presents a novel multimodal machine learning approach for multi-year global flood risk prediction,…
Social media plays a major role during and after major natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, large-scale fires, etc.), as people ``on the ground'' post useful information on what is actually happening. Given the large amounts of posts, a…
Grounding natural language in 3D environments is a critical step toward achieving robust 3D vision-language alignment. Current datasets and models for 3D visual grounding predominantly focus on identifying and localizing objects from…
Existing navigation decision support systems often perform poorly when handling non-predefined navigation scenarios. Leveraging the generalization capabilities of large language model (LLM) in handling unknown scenarios, this research…
A vast amount of location information exists in unstructured texts, such as social media posts, news stories, scientific articles, web pages, travel blogs, and historical archives. Geoparsing refers to the process of recognizing location…
We construct a novel event-level Capital Control Measures (CCM) dataset covering 196 countries from 1999 to 2023 by leveraging prompt-based large language models (LLMs). The dataset enables event study analysis and cross-country comparisons…
Identification and categorization of social media posts generated during disasters are crucial to reduce the sufferings of the affected people. However, lack of labeled data is a significant bottleneck in learning an effective…
Natural disasters act as a serious threat globally, requiring effective and efficient disaster management and recovery. This paper focuses on classifying natural disaster images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Multiple CNN…
In low- and middle-income countries, public safety and urban planning initiatives frequently face a critical shortage of accurate, location-specific road crash data. Extracting reliable geospatial information from unstructured text requires…
LiDAR relocalization has attracted increasing attention as it can deliver accurate 6-DoF pose estimation in complex 3D environments. Recent learning-based regression methods offer efficient solutions by directly predicting global poses…
Computational methods to accelerate natural disaster response include change detection, map alignment, and vision-aided navigation. Current software functions optimally only on near-nadir images, though off-nadir images are often the first…
Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) are rare but destructive hazards in high mountain regions, yet predictive research is hindered by fragmented and unimodal data. Most prior efforts emphasize post-event mapping, whereas forecasting…
Incident management is essential to maintain the reliability and availability of cloud computing services. Cloud vendors typically disclose incident reports to the public, summarizing the failures and recovery process to help minimize their…
With the rapid advancement of natural language processing technologies, generative artificial intelligence techniques, represented by large language models (LLMs), are gaining increasing prominence and demonstrating significant potential…
Geographic distribution shift arises when the distribution of locations on Earth in a training dataset is different from what is seen at inference time. Using standard empirical risk minimization (ERM) in this setting can lead to uneven…
Entity matching (EM) is a critical task in data integration, aiming to identify records across different datasets that refer to the same real-world entities. Traditional methods often rely on manually engineered features and rule-based…
This study proposes a novel method to assess damages in the built environment using a deep learning workflow to quantify it. Thanks to an automated crawler, aerial images from before and after a natural disaster of 50 epicenters worldwide…
With the release of GPT-4V(O), its use in generating pseudo labels for multi-modality tasks has gained significant popularity. However, it is still a secret how to build such advanced models from its base large language models (LLMs). This…
This paper describes a rapid feasibility study of using GPT-4, a large language model (LLM), to (semi)automate data extraction in systematic reviews. Despite the recent surge of interest in LLMs there is still a lack of understanding of how…
Similar to vision-and-language navigation (VLN) tasks that focus on bridging the gap between vision and language for embodied navigation, the new Rendezvous (RVS) task requires reasoning over allocentric spatial relationships (independent…