根据灾害类型动态调整建筑邻域,提升灾损分类的准确性与泛化性。
Keep Your Friends Close, and the Right Neighbours Closer: Disaster-Conditioned Kernel-Regularized Graph Attention for Building Damage Classification

- 按灾害类型定制空间注意力机制,自适应选择有效邻域。
- 在xBD数据集上零样本事件迁移时,宏平均F1提升且残差空间自相关显著降低。
- 适合需要跨灾害类型泛化的灾损评估任务,尤其对空间结构敏感场景。
灾损具有空间特性:建筑物很少孤立受损。然而,利用空间上下文进行分类仍被严重忽视,许多流程仍依赖单体建筑外观特征,即使主要不确定性是空间结构性的。更复杂的是,不同灾害(洪水、飓风、野火)的邻域模式差异显著,导致空间推理虽有价值却易误用——盲目聚合上下文可能增强视觉一致性,却模糊边界或传播系统误差。本研究在xBD(xView2挑战赛所用数据集)上,在后定位、仅分类的受控设置下开展分析:每个建筑由预/后对比(PPC)图像块表示,空间上下文通过GPS构建的建筑图建模。提出方法通过灾难类型条件化图模型,将可学习的多尺度空间核先验注入注意力机制,使有效邻域尺度能随灾害类型自适应变化,而非采用单一全局平滑规则。为抑制因平滑带来的伪一致性,引入残差去相关损失,惩罚预测残差中的正莫兰指数。在xBD上采用留一事件外(LOEO)协议,并在跨数据集迁移(xBD → Ida-BD)中评估。结果表明,该模型在零样本事件迁移下显著提升宏平均F1,同时大幅降低残差空间自相关,说明其更合理地利用了空间上下文,而非简单平滑,从而实现对未知事件在已知灾害类型内的可靠迁移。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Disaster damage is spatial: buildings rarely fail in isolation. Yet using spatial context for damage classification remains surprisingly underexplored, and many pipelines still rely primarily on per-building appearance cues even when the dominant uncertainty is spatially structured. Complicating matters, the right neighbourhood is not the same across events. Floods, hurricanes, and wildfires can exhibit very different clustering behaviour, making spatial reasoning valuable but easy to misuse - naive context aggregation can improve visual coherence while oversmoothing boundaries or propagating structured errors. We study this tension on xBD (the dataset used in the xView2 challenge) in a controlled post-localization, classification-only setup: each building is represented by a pre/post combined (PPC) patch cropped from the provided polygons, and spatial context is modelled with GPS-derived building graphs. Our approach keeps local evidence "close" by preserving strong spatial relationships in disaster damage patterns, while bringing only the right neighbours "closer" through a disaster-type-conditioned graph model that injects a learnable multi-scale spatial kernel prior into attention, allowing the effective neighbourhood scale to adapt across disaster types rather than being learned as a single global smoothing rule. To discourage coherence-by-smoothing, we add a residual de-correlation loss that penalizes positive Moran's~I in prediction residuals. We evaluate the method under event and dataset shift with a leave-one-event-out (LOEO) protocol on xBD and cross-dataset transfer from xBD to Ida-BD. The model improves macro-F1 and substantially reduces residual spatial autocorrelation under zero-shot event shift, indicating better use of spatial context rather than naive smoothing and enabling more reliable transfer to unseen events within known disaster types.
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