RescueNet Challenge Tracks
This challenge mainly offers two tracks for post-disaster damage assessment on the RescueNet dataset. The first track focuses on Semantic Segmentation, while the second track focuses on Visual Question Answering.
Track 1:
Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation: The semantic segmentation labels include: 1) Background, 2) Water, 3)Building No Damage, 4) Building Minor Damage, 5) Building Major Damage, 6) Building Total Destruction, 7) Road-Clear, 8) Road-Blocked, 9) Vehicle, 10) Tree, 11) Pool. Only a small portion of the training images have their corresponding masks available.
Track 2:
For the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task, we will provide QA pairs. These questions can be divided into the 9 categories: Simple Counting (SC), Complex Counting (CC), Building Condition Recognition (BCR), Road Condition Recognition (RCR), Level of Damage (LOD), Risk Assessment (RA), Density Estimation (DE), Positional (POS) and Change Detection (CD).
In Simple Counting, we mainly ask to count the objects within the images regardless of attributes. For example, “How many buildings are in the image?”.
In Complex Counting, attribute-based counting questions will be asked. “How many majorly damaged structures are seen in the images?”.
In Building Condition Recognition, we ask questions to identify whether there is any building present for a given attribute. “Are there any structures that have been destroyed completely by the disaster?” is an example of this question category.
In Road Condition Recognition, we consider comprehending the road condition by asking questions. ”What is the condition of the road?”, “Is any part of the road undamaged in this scene?”.
In Level of Damage, we ask questions to identify the overall level of damage in a scene. “How badly damaged is the scene?” is an example.
In Risk Assessment, we evaluate the risk due to the damages. “Does the recovery action need to be taken urgently?” is an example of a question for this category.
In the Density Estimation question category, we estimate the density of buildings in a given scene. This category includes questions such as “How dense is the area?”.
Dataset includes the Positional question category for which high-level scene understanding is necessary. “How much damage does the largest building in this image have?”, and “What is the damage status of the smallest building in this image?” are examples.
In Change Detection, we identify whether there is a change in the number of buildings before and after the disaster due to the total number of destroyed buildings. “Is there any change in the number of buildings after the disaster on the scene?”.