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20242026
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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Monitoring Post-Disaster Urban Recovery Using High-Resolution SAR Time Series and Unsupervised Learning: Evidence from the 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquake

Luigi Russo, Deodato Tapete, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Monitoring post-disaster recovery is essential for understanding how urban systems rebuild and progressively return to functionality. However, tracking reconstruction remains diffi…

cs.CV2026

Context-Aware Slum Mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Sentinel-1 Texture and Local Climate Zones

Peterson Chepkilot, Babak Memar, Paolo Gamba

Accurate mapping of informal settlements remains a major challenge in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) cities because optical imagery often fails to distinguish Informal Settlements (defi…

quant-ph2025

Enriching Earth Observation labeled data with Quantum Conditioned Diffusion Models

Francesco Mauro, Francesca De Falco, Lorenzo Papa +5

The rapid adoption of diffusion models (DMs) in the Earth Observation (EO) domain has unlocked new generative capabilities aimed at producing new samples, whose statistical propert…

cs.CV2025

A Quantum-assisted Attention U-Net for Building Segmentation over Tunis using Sentinel-1 Data

Luigi Russo, Francesco Mauro, Babak Memar +3

Building segmentation in urban areas is essential in fields such as urban planning, disaster response, and population mapping. Yet accurately segmenting buildings in dense urban re…

cs.CV2025

An Object-Based Deep Learning Approach for Building Height Estimation from Single SAR Images

Babak Memar, Luigi Russo, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Accurate estimation of building heights using very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is crucial for various urban applications. This paper introduces a D…

cs.CV2025

A Deep Learning framework for building damage assessment using VHR SAR and geospatial data: demonstration on the 2023 Turkiye Earthquake

Luigi Russo, Deodato Tapete, Silvia Liberata Ullo +1

Building damage identification shortly after a disaster is crucial for guiding emergency response and recovery efforts. Although optical satellite imagery is commonly used for disa…