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most citedCRASAR-U-DROIDs: A Large Scale Benchmark Dataset for Building Alignment and Damage Assessment in Georectified sUAS Imagery

2 citations · 3 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CV2026

Looks Can be Deceiving: Annotator and Reviewer Performance Across Imagery Sources in Crowd-Sourced Aerial Damage Assessment

Thomas Manzini, Priyankari Perali, Raisa Karnik +2

This paper presents the first known empirical investigation of annotator and reviewer performance across multi-source remotely sensed imagery, evaluating human labeling across dron…

cs.CV2025

A Benchmark Dataset for Spatially Aligned Road Damage Assessment in Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems Disaster Imagery

Thomas Manzini, Priyankari Perali, Raisa Karnik +1

This paper presents the largest known benchmark dataset for road damage assessment and road alignment, and provides 18 baseline models trained on the CRASAR-U-DRIODs dataset's post…

cs.CV2025

Deploying Rapid Damage Assessments from sUAS Imagery for Disaster Response

Thomas Manzini, Priyankari Perali, Robin R. Murphy

This paper presents the first AI/ML system for automating building damage assessment in uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) imagery to be deployed operationally during federally declare…

cs.RO2025

Challenges and Research Directions from the Operational Use of a Machine Learning Damage Assessment System via Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems at Hurricanes Debby and Helene

Thomas Manzini, Priyankari Perali, Robin R. Murphy +1

This paper details four principal challenges encountered with machine learning (ML) damage assessment using small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) at Hurricanes Debby and Helene that…

cs.CV2025

Now you see it, Now you don't: Damage Label Agreement in Drone & Satellite Post-Disaster Imagery

Thomas Manzini, Priyankari Perali, Jayesh Tripathi +1

This paper audits damage labels derived from coincident satellite and drone aerial imagery for 15,814 buildings across Hurricanes Ian, Michael, and Harvey, finding 29.02% label dis…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

CRASAR-U-DROIDs: A Large Scale Benchmark Dataset for Building Alignment and Damage Assessment in Georectified sUAS Imagery

Thomas Manzini, Priyankari Perali, Raisa Karnik +1

This document presents the Center for Robot Assisted Search And Rescue - Uncrewed Aerial Systems - Disaster Response Overhead Inspection Dataset (CRASAR-U-DROIDs) for building dama…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Non-Uniform Spatial Alignment Errors in sUAS Imagery From Wide-Area Disasters

Thomas Manzini, Priyankari Perali, Raisa Karnik +3

This work presents the first quantitative study of alignment errors between small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) georectified imagery and a priori building polygons and finds that…

cs.RO2023

Using an Uncrewed Surface Vehicle to Create a Volumetric Model of Non-Navigable Rivers and Other Shallow Bodies of Water

Jayesh Tripathi, Robin Murphy

Non-navigable rivers and retention ponds play important roles in buffering communities from flooding, yet emergency planners often have no data as to the volume of water that they…

cs.RO2023

Improving Drone Imagery For Computer Vision/Machine Learning in Wilderness Search and Rescue

Robin Murphy, Thomas Manzini

This paper describes gaps in acquisition of drone imagery that impair the use with computer vision/machine learning (CV/ML) models and makes five recommendations to maximize image…

cs.RO2023

Differentiable Boustrophedon Paths That Enable Optimization Via Gradient Descent

Thomas Manzini, Robin Murphy

This paper introduces a differentiable representation for the optimization of boustrophedon path plans in convex polygons, explores an additional parameter of these path plans that…