Assessing out-of-domain generalization for robust building damage
detection
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10328v1
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:30:43 GMT
- Title: Assessing out-of-domain generalization for robust building damage
detection
- Authors: Vitus Benson and Alexander Ecker
- Abstract summary: Building damage detection can be automated by applying computer vision techniques to satellite imagery.
Models must be robust to a shift in distribution between disaster imagery available for training and the images of the new event.
We argue that future work should focus on the OOD regime instead.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: An important step for limiting the negative impact of natural disasters is
rapid damage assessment after a disaster occurred. For instance, building
damage detection can be automated by applying computer vision techniques to
satellite imagery. Such models operate in a multi-domain setting: every
disaster is inherently different (new geolocation, unique circumstances), and
models must be robust to a shift in distribution between disaster imagery
available for training and the images of the new event. Accordingly, estimating
real-world performance requires an out-of-domain (OOD) test set. However,
building damage detection models have so far been evaluated mostly in the
simpler yet unrealistic in-distribution (IID) test setting. Here we argue that
future work should focus on the OOD regime instead. We assess OOD performance
of two competitive damage detection models and find that existing
state-of-the-art models show a substantial generalization gap: their
performance drops when evaluated OOD on new disasters not used during training.
Moreover, IID performance is not predictive of OOD performance, rendering
current benchmarks uninformative about real-world performance. Code and model
weights are available at https://github.com/ecker-lab/robust-bdd.
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