Yifan Yang

📕 Selected Publications

I do not really have a single representative work; I love all of my first-author papers equally, because each of them records a part of my growth.

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Preprint

RAPID: A Reproducible Multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Damage Assessment from Satellite and Street-View Imagery — Yang, Yifan, Wenjing Gong, Kaili Zhang, Lei Zou, Zhengzhong Tu, Hao Li, Zongrong Li, Xinyue Ye.
arXiv preprint, 2026.

📄 Paper 💻 GitHub

Conference Paper

Satellite-to-Street: Synthesizing Post-Disaster Views from Satellite Imagery via Generative Vision Models — Yang, Yifan, Lei Zou, Wendy Jepson.
Accepted to IGARSS 2026 — IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Preprint

DamageArbiter: A Multimodal Arbitration Framework for Disaster Damage Assessment from Street-View Imagery — Yang, Yifan, Lei Zou, Wenjing Gong, Kani Fu, Zongrong Li, Siqin Wang, Bing Zhou, Heng Cai, Hao Tian.
arXiv preprint, 2026.
🏆 2nd Place — AAG GIS Specialty Group (GISSG) Student Honors Paper Competition, 2026

📄 Paper 💻 GitHub

Journal Article

Hyperlocal Disaster Damage Assessment Using Bi-temporal Street-view Imagery and Pre-trained Vision Models — Yang, Yifan, Lei Zou, Bing Zhou, Daoyang Li, Binin Lin, Joynal Abedin, Mengyang Yang.
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 121, 102335, 2025.
💐 Honorable Mention — AAG GIS Specialty Group (GISSG) Student Honors Paper Competition, 2025

📄 Paper 🔗 DOI 💻 GitHub 📝 Blog 💬 WeChat

Conference Paper

Perceiving Multidimensional Disaster Damages from Street-View Images Using Visual-Language Models — Yang, Yifan, Lei Zou.
Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association, Volume 10, 310, 2025.
🏆 Best Student Paper Award — ICC 2025, Vancouver, Canada

📄 Paper 🔗 DOI 💻 GitHub

Book Chapter

Object detection and segmentation of trees using Text SAM in ArcGIS Online — Yang, Yifan, Dominic Borrelli.
In: Darren Martin Ruddell & Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (eds.), Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World.
Esri Press, 2025. (Chapter 7)

📘 Book 🔗 Link 💻 GitHub

Journal Article

GeoLocator: A Location-Integrated Large Multimodal Model (LMM) for Inferring Geo-Privacy — Yang, Yifan, Siqin Wang, Daoyang Li, Shuju Sun, Qingyang Wu.
Applied Sciences, 14(16), 7091, 2024.

📄 Paper 🔗 DOI 💻 GitHub