Street to Cloud: Improving Flood Maps With Crowdsourcing and Semantic Segmentation
Abstract
To address the mounting destruction caused by floods in climate-vulnerable regions, we propose Street to Cloud, a machine learning pipeline for incorporating crowdsourced ground truth data into the segmentation of satellite imagery of floods. We propose this approach as a solution to the labor-intensive task of generating high-quality, hand-labeled training data, and demonstrate successes and failures of different plausible crowdsourcing approaches in our model. Street to Cloud leverages community reporting and machine learning to generate novel, near-real time insights into the extent of floods to be used for emergency response.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2011.08010
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2011.08010
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv201108010S
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;
- Computer Science - Machine Learning
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 2 figures, Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2020