11 papers
Damage-TriageFormer: A Foundation-Model Framework for Typology-Based Building Damage Assessment from Mono-Temporal Imagery
Yiming Xiao, Yu-Hsuan Ho, Sanjay Thasma +2
Decision-relevant building damage assessment is critical for prioritizing resources and recovery after a disaster, yet most automated methods either flatten damage into a single se…
DisasterLex: An Expert Concept-to-Schema Knowledge Graph for Geospatial Reasoning in Disaster Analytics
Yiming Xiao, Ankit Basu, Kai Yin +3
Disasters are inevitable and increasingly costly, and effective response depends on querying structured tabular data: precise, information-dense records of hazard, exposure, vulner…
DisasterBench: Benchmarking LLM Planning under Typed Tool Interface Constraints
Zhitong Chen, Kai Yin, Weifeng Zhang +7
Disasters cause severe societal impacts, demanding rapid coordination of heterogeneous AI tools, from satellite analysis to flood prediction and damage assessment, into coherent mu…
DisastRAG: A Multi-Source Disaster Information Integration and Access System Based on Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
Bo Li, Zhitong Chen, Kai Yin +3
Effective disaster management requires rapid access to information distributed across structured operational records, unstructured institutional documents, and dynamic external sou…
Automated Wildfire Damage Assessment from Multi view Ground level Imagery Via Vision Language Models
Miguel Esparza, Archit Gupta, Kai Yin +2
The escalating intensity and frequency of wildfires demand innovative computational methods for rapid and accurate property damage assessment. Traditional methods are often time-co…
CrisiSense-RAG: Crisis Sensing Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Rapid Disaster Impact Assessment
Yiming Xiao, Kai Yin, Ali Mostafavi
Timely and spatially resolved disaster impact assessment is essential for effective emergency response. However, automated methods typically struggle with temporal asynchrony. Real…