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.

For a complete list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

Browse by stage

Browse by year

Conference Proceedings

When Satellite and Street Views Disagree: Cross-View Complementarity in Disaster Damage Assessment — Yang, Yifan, Lei Zou.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Searching and Mining Large Collections of Geospatial Data (GeoSearch '26), November 3–6, 2026, Riverside, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. (Lightning talk)

📄 Paper 🔗 Conference 🔗 DOI 💻 GitHub

Conference Proceedings

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.
Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '26), November 3–6, 2026, Riverside, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages.

📄 Paper 🔗 Conference 🔗 DOI 💻 GitHub

Conference Proceedings

RAPIDMap: Rapid Multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Mapping from Satellite and Street-view Imagery — Yang, Yifan, Lei Zou.
CaGIS Conference 2026, September 8–11, 2026, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Conference Proceedings

Satellite-to-Street: Synthesizing Post-Disaster Views from Satellite Imagery via Generative Vision Models — Yang, Yifan, Lei Zou, Wendy Jepson.
IGARSS 2026 – 2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, 2026, pp. 1764–1768, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS60577.2026.11730816.

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

Conference Proceedings

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

📄 Abstract 🔗 DOI 💻 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

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