Better prediction and monitoring of flood events are key factors contributing to the reduction
of their impact on local communities and infrastructure assets. Flood management involves …

The idea of 'citizen as sensors' has gradually become a reality over the past decade. Today,
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) from citizens is highly involved in acquiring …

The analysis of natural disaster-related multimedia content got great attention in recent
years. Being one of the most important sources of information, social media have been …

With increasing urbanization, in recent years there has been a growing interest and need in
monitoring and analyzing urban flood events. Social media, as a new data source, can …

This paper addresses the problem of floods classification and floods aftermath detection
based on both social media and satellite imagery. Automatic detection of disasters such as …

Being able to automatically link social media and satellite imagery holds large opportunities
for research, with a potentially considerable impact on society. The possibility of integrating …

Securing digital medical images is increasingly becoming a major concern due to the rapid
growth of the amount of medical images transferred over a network and stored on the web …

Event recognition is one of the areas in multimedia that is attracting great attention of
researchers. Being applicable in a wide range of applications, from personal to collective …

The use of social media data in disaster and crisis management is increasing rapidly.
Particularly in connection to flooding events, geo-referenced images shared by citizens can …

The paper addresses the problem of adverse events (natural disasters) recognition in user-
generated images from social media, addressing the problem from two complementary …