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Hair artifacts in dermoscopic images present significant challenges for accurate skin lesion analysis, potentially obscuring critical diagnostic features in dermatological assessments. This work introduces a fine-tuned SegFormer model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Asif Mohammed Saad , Umme Niraj Mahi

Deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable success in the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images and in land-use change detection. Nevertheless, their real-time deployment on edge platforms remains constrained by decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Sihang Chen , Lijun Yun , Ze Liu , JianFeng Zhu , Jie Chen , Hui Wang , Yueping Nie

Underwater image understanding is crucial for both submarine navigation and seabed exploration. However, the low illumination in underwater environments degrades the imaging quality, which in turn seriously deteriorates the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zuo , Jiaran Jiang , Jifeng Shen , Wankou Yang

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

Satellite images are an extremely valuable resource in the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis where they can be used for risk assessment and disaster management. In order to provide timely and actionable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Ananya Gupta , Simon Watson , Hujun Yin

This paper presents \dahitra, a novel deep-learning model with hierarchical transformers to classify building damages based on satellite images in the aftermath of natural disasters. Satellite imagery provides real-time and high-coverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Navjot Kaur , Cheng-Chun Lee , Ali Mostafavi , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

Detection of oil spills from satellite images is essential for both environmental surveillance and maritime safety. Traditional threshold-based methods frequently encounter performance degradation due to very high false alarm rates caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pavan Kumar Yata , Pediredla Pradeep , Goli Himanish , Swathi M

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aimed at partitioning an image into semantically meaningful regions. Referring image segmentation extends this task by using natural language expressions to localize specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

Post-disaster inspections are critical to emergency management after earthquakes. The availability of data on the condition of civil infrastructure immediately after an earthquake is of great importance for emergency management.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Xiao Liang , Seyed Omid Sajedi

This paper presents a few comprehensive experimental studies for automated Structural Damage Detection (SDD) in extreme events using deep learning methods for processing 2D images. In the first study, a 152-layer Residual network (ResNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yongsheng Bai , Bing Zha , Halil Sezen , Alper Yilmaz

Quick and accurate assessment of the damage state of buildings after natural disasters is crucial for undertaking properly targeted rescue and subsequent recovery operations, which can have a major impact on the safety of victims and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Mateusz Żarski , Jarosław Adam Miszczak

Pavement condition evaluation is essential to time the preventative or rehabilitative actions and control distress propagation. Failing to conduct timely evaluations can lead to severe structural and financial loss of the infrastructure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadra Naddaf-Sh , M-Mahdi Naddaf-Sh , Amir R. Kashani , Hassan Zargarzadeh

Automated segmentation of structural defects from visual inspection imagery remains challenging due to the diversity of damage types, extreme class imbalance, and the need for precise boundary delineation. This paper presents DeltaSeg, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Enrique Hernandez Noguera , Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Elias Ioup , Mahdi Abdelguerfi

Timely assessment of structural damage is critical for disaster response and recovery. However, most prior work in natural disaster analysis relies on 2D imagery, which lacks depth, suffers from occlusions, and provides limited spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nhut Le , Ehsan Karimi , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Rapid and accurate building damage assessment in the immediate aftermath of tornadoes is critical for coordinating life-saving search and rescue operations, optimizing emergency resource allocation, and accelerating community recovery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Robinson Umeike , Thang Dao , Shane Crawford , John van de Lindt , Blythe Johnston , Wanting , Wang , Trung Do , Ajibola Mofikoya , Sarbesh Banjara , Cuong Pham

This study aims to enable more reliable automated post-disaster building damage classification using artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-view imagery. The current practices and research efforts in adopting AI for post-disaster damage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Asim Bashir Khajwal , Chih-Shen Cheng , Arash Noshadravan

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

Visual inspection is the predominant technique for evaluating the condition of civil infrastructure. The recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and artificial intelligence have made the visual inspections faster, safer, and more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Kareem Eltouny , Seyedomid Sajedi , Xiao Liang

Fine-grained image recognition is a longstanding computer vision challenge that focuses on differentiating objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories within the same meta-category. Since images belonging to the same meta-category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Yulin Wang , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

Assessing the environmental impact of the mineral extraction industry plays a critical role in understanding and mitigating the ecological consequences of extractive activities. This paper presents MineSegSAT, a model that presents a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Ezra MacDonald , Derek Jacoby , Yvonne Coady