Humanitarian AI
Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.
2026
1 publicationsHumanitarian AI2026
DisasterVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark Dataset for Disaster Scenes
Aisha Al-Mohannadi, Ayisha Firoz, Yin Yang, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli — Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2026)
2025
4 publicationsHumanitarian AI2025
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)
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Analysing Satellite Imagery Classification under Spatial Domain Shift across Geographic Regions
Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda Ofli — International Journal of Computer Vision (2025)
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Benchmarking Object Detectors under Real-World Distribution Shifts in Satellite Imagery
Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda Ofli. Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition — (CVPR) (2025)
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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)
2024
1 publicationsHumanitarian AI2024
(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)
2023
2 publicationsHumanitarian AI2023
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, WWW — Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (2023)
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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)
2018
1 publicationsHumanitarian AI2018
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)
2014
1 publicationsHumanitarian AI2014
AIDR: Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response
Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Ji Lucas, Patrick Meier, Sarah Vieweg — Conference on World Wide Web WWW (2014)