Smart Transfer: Leveraging Vision Foundation Model for Rapid Building Damage Mapping with Post-Earthquake VHR Imagery

ArXi:2604.02627v1 Announce Type: cross Living in a changing climate, human society now faces frequent and severe natural disasters than ever before. As a consequence, rapid disaster response during the "Golden 72 Hours" of search and rescue becomes a vital humanitarian necessity and community concern. However, traditional disaster damage surveys routinely fail to generalize across distinct urban morphologies and new disaster events. Effective damage mapping typically requires exhaustive and time-consuming manual data annotation. To address this issue, we