Social media can play an important role in current-day disaster management. Images shared from the areas may include objects relevant to operations. If these are identified correctly, they offer a preliminary damage assessment report and situational awareness for response recovery. This research is carried out collaboration with Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) understand state-of-the-a...

The rapid and accurate damage assessment of buildings plays a critical role in disaster response. Based on pairs pre- post-disaster remote sensing images, effective building level can be conducted. However, most existing methods are based Convolutional Neural Network, which has limited ability to learn the global context. An attention mechanism helps ameliorate this problem. Hierarchical Transf...