Large‐scale building damage assessment using a novel hierarchical transformer architecture on satellite images

• Published in: Computer-aided civil and infrastructure engineering Vol. 38; no. 15; pp. 2072 - 2091
• Main Authors: Kaur, Navjot, Lee, Cheng‐Chun, Mostafavi, Ali, Mahdavi‐Amiri, Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2023
• Subjects: Coders; Damage assessment; Damage localization; Datasets; Emergency response; Natural disasters; Satellite imagery

This paper presents damage assessment using a hierarchical transformer architecture (DAHiTrA), a novel deep‐learning model with hierarchical transformers to classify building damages based on satellite images in the aftermath of natural disasters. Satellite imagery provides real‐time and high‐covera...