3 papers
cs.CV2026
Open-access model for detecting openly dumped dispersed municipal solid waste from crowdsourced UAV imagery in Sub-Saharan Africa
Steffen Knoblauch, Ram Kumar Muthusamy, Luis M. A. Bettencourt +8
Managing municipal solid waste in rapidly urbanizing Sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging due to dispersed informal dumping and limited high-resolution datasets for spatial monit…
cs.CV2026
Automated Road Crack Localization for Spatially Guided Highway Maintenance
Steffen Knoblauch, Ram Kumar Muthusamy, Pedram Ghamisi +1
Highway networks are crucial for economic prosperity. Climate change-induced temperature fluctuations are exacerbating stress on road pavements, resulting in elevated maintenance c…
cs.CV2026
Assessing Building Heat Resilience Using UAV and Street-View Imagery with Coupled Global Context Vision Transformer
Steffen Knoblauch, Ram Kumar Muthusamy, Hao Li +4
Climate change is intensifying human heat exposure, particularly in densely built urban centers of the Global South. Low-cost construction materials and high thermal-mass surfaces…