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Early wildfire detection in remote and forest areas is crucial for minimizing devastation and preserving ecosystems. Autonomous drones offer agile access to remote, challenging terrains, equipped with advanced imaging technology that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Austin Briley , Fatemeh Afghah

Dangerous surroundings and difficult-to-reach landscapes introduce significant complications for adequate disaster management and recuperation. These problems can be solved by engaging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provided with embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Branislava Jankovic , Sabina Jangirova , Waseem Ullah , Latif U. Khan , Mohsen Guizani

This research addresses the pressing challenge of enhancing processing times and detection capabilities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)/drone imagery for global wildfire detection, despite limited datasets. Proposing a Segmented Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Aditya V. Jonnalagadda , Hashim A. Hashim

Rapid and accurate wildfire smoke severity assessment from satellite images is essential for emergency response, air quality modeling, and human health risk management. Existing deep learning approaches treat smoke detection as a binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ranjith Chodavarapu

Rapid and accurate wildfire detection is crucial for emergency response and environmental management. In airborne and spaceborne missions, real-time algorithms must distinguish between no fire, active fire, and post-fire conditions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mark Moussa , Andre Williams , Seth Roffe , Douglas Morton

The scarcity of labeled satellite imagery remains a fundamental bottleneck for deep-learning (DL)-based wildfire monitoring systems. This paper investigates whether a diffusion-based foundation model for Earth Observation (EO), EarthSynth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Valeria Martin , K. Brent Venable , Derek Morgan

With the increase in use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)/drones, it is important to detect and identify causes of failure in real time for proper recovery from a potential crash-like scenario or post incident forensics analysis. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Vidyasagar Sadhu , Saman Zonouz , Dario Pompili

To respond to disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, and armed conflicts, humanitarian organizations require accurate and timely data in the form of damage assessments, which indicate what buildings and population centers have been most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jihyeon Lee , Joseph Z. Xu , Kihyuk Sohn , Wenhan Lu , David Berthelot , Izzeddin Gur , Pranav Khaitan , Ke-Wei , Huang , Kyriacos Koupparis , Bernhard Kowatsch

Fire is characterized by its sudden onset and destructive power, making early fire detection crucial for ensuring human safety and protecting property. With the advancement of deep learning, the application of computer vision in fire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Ziqi Zhang , Xiuzhuang Zhou , Xiangyang Gong

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

Early wildfire detection is of paramount importance to avoid as much damage as possible to the environment, properties, and lives. Deep Learning (DL) models that can leverage both visible and infrared information have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 J. F. Ciprián-Sánchez , G. Ochoa-Ruiz , M. Gonzalez-Mendoza , L. Rossi

In this paper, we propose a drone-based wildfire monitoring system for remote and hard-to-reach areas. This system utilizes autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the main advantage of providing on-demand monitoring service faster…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Fatemeh Afghah , Abolfazl Razi , Jacob Chakareski , Jonathan Ashdown

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in search-and-rescue (SAR) missions, yet continuous and reliable victim detection and localization remain challenging due to on-board hardware constraints. This paper designs an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Yi Hong , Mingyang Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Kevin Hung

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in disaster emergency response by facilitating aerial video analysis. Due to the limited computational resources available on UAVs, large models cannot be run efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yanbing Bai , Rui-Yang Ju , Lemeng Zhao , Junjie Hu , Jianchao Bi , Erick Mas , Shunichi Koshimura

To achieve high-levels of autonomy, modern robots require the ability to detect and recover from anomalies and failures with minimal human supervision. Multi-modal sensor signals could provide more information for such anomaly detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Tianchen Ji , Sri Theja Vuppala , Girish Chowdhary , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Rapid identification of damaged buildings after natural disasters or on war areas is crucial to support emergency response and prioritize interventions. Earth Observation constellations provide timely, large-scale coverage, but actionable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thomas Goudemant , Benjamin Francesconi

Remote Sensing applications can benefit from a relatively fine spatial resolution multispectral (MS) images and a high revisit frequency ensured by the twin satellites Sentinel-2. Unfortunately, only four out of thirteen bands are provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Massimiliano Gargiulo , Domenico Antonio Giuseppe Dell'Aglio , Antonio Iodice , Daniele Riccio , Giuseppe Ruello

Learning a robust video Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is essential for reducing video redundancy and facilitating efficient video generation. Directly applying image VAEs to individual frames in isolation can result in temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yazhou Xing , Yang Fei , Yingqing He , Jingye Chen , Jiaxin Xie , Xiaowei Chi , Qifeng Chen

UAVs are playing an increasingly important role in the field of wilderness rescue by virtue of their flexibility. This paper proposes a fusion of UAV vision technology and satellite image analysis technology for active wildfires detection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Chang Liu , Tamas Sziranyi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity in civil and military applications. However, uncontrolled access to restricted areas threatens privacy and security. Thus, prevention and detection of UAVs are pivotal to guarantee…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jakub Mandula , Jonas Kühne , Luca Pascarella , Michele Magno