Learning Efficient Unsupervised Satellite Image-based Building Damage Detection

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Main Authors: Zhang, Yiyun, Wang, Zijian, Luo, Yadan, Yu, Xin, Huang, Zi
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Published: 2023
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author Zhang, Yiyun
Wang, Zijian
Luo, Yadan
Yu, Xin
Huang, Zi
author_facet Zhang, Yiyun
Wang, Zijian
Luo, Yadan
Yu, Xin
Huang, Zi
contents Existing Building Damage Detection (BDD) methods always require labour-intensive pixel-level annotations of buildings and their conditions, hence largely limiting their applications. In this paper, we investigate a challenging yet practical scenario of BDD, Unsupervised Building Damage Detection (U-BDD), where only unlabelled pre- and post-disaster satellite image pairs are provided. As a pilot study, we have first proposed an advanced U-BDD baseline that leverages pre-trained vision-language foundation models (i.e., Grounding DINO, SAM and CLIP) to address the U-BDD task. However, the apparent domain gap between satellite and generic images causes low confidence in the foundation models used to identify buildings and their damages. In response, we further present a novel self-supervised framework, U-BDD++, which improves upon the U-BDD baseline by addressing domain-specific issues associated with satellite imagery. Furthermore, the new Building Proposal Generation (BPG) module and the CLIP-enabled noisy Building Proposal Selection (CLIP-BPS) module in U-BDD++ ensure high-quality self-training. Extensive experiments on the widely used building damage assessment benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for unsupervised building damage detection. The presented annotation-free and foundation model-based paradigm ensures an efficient learning phase. This study opens a new direction for real-world BDD and sets a strong baseline for future research.
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spellingShingle Learning Efficient Unsupervised Satellite Image-based Building Damage Detection
Zhang, Yiyun
Wang, Zijian
Luo, Yadan
Yu, Xin
Huang, Zi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Existing Building Damage Detection (BDD) methods always require labour-intensive pixel-level annotations of buildings and their conditions, hence largely limiting their applications. In this paper, we investigate a challenging yet practical scenario of BDD, Unsupervised Building Damage Detection (U-BDD), where only unlabelled pre- and post-disaster satellite image pairs are provided. As a pilot study, we have first proposed an advanced U-BDD baseline that leverages pre-trained vision-language foundation models (i.e., Grounding DINO, SAM and CLIP) to address the U-BDD task. However, the apparent domain gap between satellite and generic images causes low confidence in the foundation models used to identify buildings and their damages. In response, we further present a novel self-supervised framework, U-BDD++, which improves upon the U-BDD baseline by addressing domain-specific issues associated with satellite imagery. Furthermore, the new Building Proposal Generation (BPG) module and the CLIP-enabled noisy Building Proposal Selection (CLIP-BPS) module in U-BDD++ ensure high-quality self-training. Extensive experiments on the widely used building damage assessment benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for unsupervised building damage detection. The presented annotation-free and foundation model-based paradigm ensures an efficient learning phase. This study opens a new direction for real-world BDD and sets a strong baseline for future research.
title Learning Efficient Unsupervised Satellite Image-based Building Damage Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01576