Humanitarian AI

AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring

Noora Al-Emadi, Muhammad Imran, Yin Yang, Ingmar Weber, Fabjan Lashi, Gaia Rigodanza, Ivana Hajžmanová, Ferda Ofli.
Communications of the ACM (2025)

Analysing Satellite Imagery Classification under Spatial Domain Shift across Geographic Regions

Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda Ofli.
International Journal of Computer Vision (2025)

Benchmarking Object Detectors under Real-World Distribution Shifts in Satellite Imagery

Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda Ofli.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2025)

Evaluating Robustness of LLMs on Crisis-Related Microblogs across Events, Information Types, and Linguistic Features

Muhammad Imran, Abdul Wahab Ziaullah, Kai Chen, Ferda Ofli.
WWW 2025 – Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (2025)

(Won Deployed Application Award) Flood Insights: Integrating Remote and Social Sensing Data for Flood Exposure, Damage, and Urgent Needs Mapping.

 Zainab Akhtar, Umair Qazi, Aya El-Sakka, Rizwan Sadiq, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2024)

Mapping Flood Exposure, Damage, and Population Needs Using Remote and Social Sensing: A Case Study of 2022 Pakistan Floods

Zainab Akhtar, Umair Qazi, Rizwan Sadiq, Aya El-Sakka, Muhammad Sajjad, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran.
ACM Web Conference 2023 – Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW (2023) 

Incidents1M: A Large-Scale Dataset of Images with Natural Disasters, Damage, and Incidents

Ethan Weber, Dim P. Papadopoulos, Agata Lapedriza, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Antonio Torralba.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2023)

CrisisMMD: Multimodal twitter datasets from natural disasters

Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran
Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media (2018)

AIDR: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response

Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Ji Lucas, Patrick Meier, Sarah Vieweg.
Conference on World Wide Web WWW (2014)