9 papers
Advancing All-Weather Building Damage Mapping to the Instance Level: Outcomes and Insights from the 2026 Bright Challenge
Hongruixuan Chen, He Huang, Haifeng Wang +19
Rapid post-disaster response requires timely, building-level information on whether structures remain intact, are damaged, or are destroyed. Post-event optical imagery, however, ma…
Can LLM Agents Respond to Disasters? Benchmarking Heterogeneous Geospatial Reasoning in Emergency Operations
Junjue Wang, Weihao Xuan, Heli Qi +7
Operational disaster response goes beyond damage assessment, requiring responders to integrate multi-sensor signals, reason over road networks, populations and key facilities, plan…
MM-OVSeg:Multimodal Optical-SAR Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Remote Sensing
Yimin Wei, Aoran Xiao, Hongruixuan Chen +2
Open-vocabulary segmentation enables pixel-level recognition from an open set of textual categories, allowing generalization beyond fixed classes. Despite great potential in remote…
DynamicVL: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Dynamic City Understanding
Weihao Xuan, Junjue Wang, Heli Qi +5
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual understanding, but their application to long-term Earth observation analysis remains li…
DisasterM3: A Remote Sensing Vision-Language Dataset for Disaster Damage Assessment and Response
Junjue Wang, Weihao Xuan, Heli Qi +8
Large vision-language models (VLMs) have made great achievements in Earth vision. However, complex disaster scenes with diverse disaster types, geographic regions, and satellite se…
BRIGHT: A globally distributed multimodal building damage assessment dataset with very-high-resolution for all-weather disaster response
Hongruixuan Chen, Jian Song, Olivier Dietrich +9
Disaster events occur around the world and cause significant damage to human life and property. Earth observation (EO) data enables rapid and comprehensive building damage assessme…