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Hauptverfasser: Amini, Kooshan, Liu, Yuhao, Padgett, Jamie Ellen, Balakrishnan, Guha, Veeraraghavan, Ashok
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12542
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author Amini, Kooshan
Liu, Yuhao
Padgett, Jamie Ellen
Balakrishnan, Guha
Veeraraghavan, Ashok
author_facet Amini, Kooshan
Liu, Yuhao
Padgett, Jamie Ellen
Balakrishnan, Guha
Veeraraghavan, Ashok
contents Timely and accurate detection of hurricane debris is critical for effective disaster response and community resilience. While post-disaster aerial imagery is readily available, robust debris segmentation solutions applicable across multiple disaster regions remain limited. Developing a generalized solution is challenging due to varying environmental and imaging conditions that alter debris' visual signatures across different regions, further compounded by the scarcity of training data. This study addresses these challenges by fine-tuning pre-trained foundational vision models, achieving robust performance with a relatively small, high-quality dataset. Specifically, this work introduces an open-source dataset comprising approximately 1,200 manually annotated aerial RGB images from Hurricanes Ian, Ida, and Ike. To mitigate human biases and enhance data quality, labels from multiple annotators are strategically aggregated and visual prompt engineering is employed. The resulting fine-tuned model, named fCLIPSeg, achieves a Dice score of 0.70 on data from Hurricane Ida -- a disaster event entirely excluded during training -- with virtually no false positives in debris-free areas. This work presents the first event-agnostic debris segmentation model requiring only standard RGB imagery during deployment, making it well-suited for rapid, large-scale post-disaster impact assessments and recovery planning.
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spellingShingle Post-Hurricane Debris Segmentation Using Fine-Tuned Foundational Vision Models
Amini, Kooshan
Liu, Yuhao
Padgett, Jamie Ellen
Balakrishnan, Guha
Veeraraghavan, Ashok
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Timely and accurate detection of hurricane debris is critical for effective disaster response and community resilience. While post-disaster aerial imagery is readily available, robust debris segmentation solutions applicable across multiple disaster regions remain limited. Developing a generalized solution is challenging due to varying environmental and imaging conditions that alter debris' visual signatures across different regions, further compounded by the scarcity of training data. This study addresses these challenges by fine-tuning pre-trained foundational vision models, achieving robust performance with a relatively small, high-quality dataset. Specifically, this work introduces an open-source dataset comprising approximately 1,200 manually annotated aerial RGB images from Hurricanes Ian, Ida, and Ike. To mitigate human biases and enhance data quality, labels from multiple annotators are strategically aggregated and visual prompt engineering is employed. The resulting fine-tuned model, named fCLIPSeg, achieves a Dice score of 0.70 on data from Hurricane Ida -- a disaster event entirely excluded during training -- with virtually no false positives in debris-free areas. This work presents the first event-agnostic debris segmentation model requiring only standard RGB imagery during deployment, making it well-suited for rapid, large-scale post-disaster impact assessments and recovery planning.
title Post-Hurricane Debris Segmentation Using Fine-Tuned Foundational Vision Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12542