Bridging Spatial And Frequency Views For Disaster Assessment: Benefits And Limitations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17403v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:35:28 GMT
• Title: Bridging Spatial And Frequency Views For Disaster Assessment: Benefits And Limitations
• Abstract summary: This study presents a comparison of spatial-domain, frequency-domain, and dual-domain deep learning approaches for building damage classification.<n>Performance is evaluated using accuracy, macro F1-score, per-class metrics, and confusion matrices.<n>The dual spatial configuration achieves the highest test accuracy (0.4688) and lowest loss, while the spatial-only model attains the best macro F1-score (0.4254)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Rapid assessment of building damage from satellite imagery is essential for effective disaster response and recovery. While most deep learning methods rely on spatial-domain features, frequency-domain representations can capture complementary structural cues such as debris patterns and collapse-induced textures. This study presents a controlled comparison of spatial-domain, frequency-domain, and dual-domain deep learning approaches for multi-class building damage classification using post-disaster imagery from the xView2 (xBD) dataset. To ensure fairness, all models are built on an EfficientNet-B0 backbone and trained under identical settings, differing only in their input representations and fusion strategies. Performance is evaluated using accuracy, macro F1-score, per-class metrics, and confusion matrices. Results show that dual-domain models provide measurable improvements over single-domain approaches. The dual spatial configuration achieves the highest test accuracy (0.4688) and lowest loss, while the spatial-only model attains the best macro F1-score (0.4254), indicating more balanced class performance. In contrast, frequency-only models perform worst and exhibit overfitting, suggesting limited generalization. Despite these gains, all models struggle to detect subtle damage levels, particularly the Minor class, due to class imbalance and fine-grained visual ambiguity. While dual-domain approaches improve detection of severe damage, challenges remain. These findings highlight the benefits and limitations of hybrid representations and motivate future work on data balancing, advanced fusion, and regularization.

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