Schedule
Friday, December 13
Location: Vancouver Convention Center, West 217-219
0800 - 0815
Introduction and Welcome
Ritwik Gupta, Sandra Sajeev
0815 - 1015
Invited Talks x4
Tracy Adole (0815-0845)
Yossi Matias (0845-0915)
Jason Brown (0915-0945)
Alex Jaimes (0945-1015)
1015 - 1030
Break
1030-1200
Spotlight Talks 1
8 - "Two Case Studies of Building Modeling using Machine Learning"
9 - "Feature Engineering for Entity Resolution with Arabic Names: Improving Estimates of Observed Casualties in the Syrian Civil War"
12 - "Revisiting Classical Bagging with Modern Transfer Learning for On-the-fly Disaster Damage Detector"
13 - "FireNet: Real-time Segmentation of Fire Perimeter from Aerial Video"
14 - "Deep Crowd-Flow Prediction in Built Environments"
15 - "Few-shot Tweet Detection in Emerging Disaster Events"
1200-1330
Lunch
1330-1430
Invited Talks x2
Megan Stromberg (1330-1400)
Eric Rasmussen (1400-1430)
1430-1530
Spotlight Talks 2
18 - "Flood Detection On Low Cost Orbital Hardware"
19 - "Machine Learning for Generalizable Prediction of Flood Susceptibility"
24 - "Explainable Semantic Mapping for First Responders"
20 - "Inundation Modeling in Data Scarce Regions"
1530-1545
Break
1545-1630
Spotlight Talks 3
7 - "Language Transfer for Early Warning of Epidemics from Social Media"
26 - "Cognitive Agent Based Simulation Model For Improving Disaster Response Procedures"
27 - "Building Damage Detection in Satellite Imagery Using Convolutional Neural Networks"
1630-1715
Panel
Rachel Dzombak (UC Berkeley)
Luke Beckman (Red Cross)
Lexie Yang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
1715-1800
Poster Session