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most citedRescueNet: A High Resolution UAV Semantic Segmentation Benchmark Dataset for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

130 citations · 133 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CV2026

PT-WNO: Point Transformer with Wavelet Neural Operator for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

Nhut Le, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Point cloud semantic segmentation requires architectures that capture both fine-grained local geometry and broad global scene structure. Transformer-based networks have demonstrate…

cs.LG2026

OPTNet: Ordering Point Transformer Network for Post-disaster 3D Semantic Segmentation

Nhut Le, Ehsan Karimi, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Post-disaster damage assessment requires rapid and accurate semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds to identify critical infrastructure such as damaged buildings and roads. Early…

cs.CV2026

Instruct-ICL: Instruction-Guided In-Context Learning for Post-Disaster Damage Assessment

Armin Zarbaft, Ehsan Karimi, Nhut Le +1

Rapid and accurate situational awareness is essential for effective response during natural disasters, where delays in analysis can significantly hinder decision-making. Training t…

cs.CV2026

DA-SegFormer: Damage-Aware Semantic Segmentation for Fine-Grained Disaster Assessment

Kevin Zhu, William Tang, Raphael Hay Tene +3

Rapid and accurate damage assessment following natural disasters is critical for effective emergency response. However, identifying fine-grained damage levels (e.g., distinguishing…

cs.LG2026

PACT: Peak-Aware Cross-Attention Graph Transformers for Efficient Storm-Surge Emulation

Zesheng Liu, Doyup Kwon, Ning Lin +1

Accurate and efficient storm-surge emulation is essential for coastal hazard assessment, yet high-fidelity hydrodynamic models remain too expensive for large scenario ensembles and…

cs.CV2026

Geometric Flood Depth Estimation: Fusing Transformer-Based Segmentation with Digital Elevation Models

Nhut Le, Ehsan Karimi, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Post-disaster situational awareness relies heavily on understanding both the extent and the volume of floodwaters. While 2D semantic segmentation provides accurate flood masking, i…

cs.LG2026

K-STEMIT: Knowledge-Informed Spatio-Temporal Efficient Multi-Branch Graph Neural Network for Subsurface Stratigraphy Thickness Estimation from Radar Data

Zesheng Liu, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Subsurface stratigraphy contains important spatio-temporal information about accumulation, deformation, and layer formation in polar ice sheets. In particular, variations in intern…

cs.CV2025

3D Semantic Segmentation for Post-Disaster Assessment

Nhut Le, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

The increasing frequency of natural disasters poses severe threats to human lives and leads to substantial economic losses. While 3D semantic segmentation is crucial for post-disas…

cs.CV2025

Think First, Assign Next (ThiFAN-VQA): A Two-stage Chain-of-Thought Framework for Post-Disaster Damage Assessment

Ehsan Karimi, Nhut Le, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Timely and accurate assessment of damages following natural disasters is essential for effective emergency response and recovery. Recent AI-based frameworks have been developed to…

cs.CV2025

3DAeroRelief: The first 3D Benchmark UAV Dataset for Post-Disaster Assessment

Nhut Le, Ehsan Karimi, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

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…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

ZeShot-VQA: Zero-Shot Visual Question Answering Framework with Answer Mapping for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

Ehsan Karimi, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Natural disasters usually affect vast areas and devastate infrastructures. Performing a timely and efficient response is crucial to minimize the impact on affected communities, and…

cs.CV2022★ 130 cited

RescueNet: A High Resolution UAV Semantic Segmentation Benchmark Dataset for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

Maryam Rahnemoonfar, Tashnim Chowdhury, Robin Murphy

Recent advancements in computer vision and deep learning techniques have facilitated notable progress in scene understanding, thereby assisting rescue teams in achieving precise da…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Attention Based Semantic Segmentation on UAV Dataset for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

Tashnim Chowdhury, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

The detrimental impacts of climate change include stronger and more destructive hurricanes happening all over the world. Identifying different damaged structures of an area includi…

cs.CV2020

Comprehensive Semantic Segmentation on High Resolution UAV Imagery for Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

Maryam Rahnemoonfar, Tashnim Chowdhury, Robin Murphy +1

In this paper, we present a large-scale hurricane Michael dataset for visual perception in disaster scenarios, and analyze state-of-the-art deep neural network models for semantic…