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arXiv AI By Tan Zhang, Quanyou Li, Lu Zhang, Jun Liu, Xiaofeng Zhu, Ping Hu

DisasterBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for UAV-Based Disaster Response in Complex Environments

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arXiv:2606. 06217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a disaster unfolds, responders must answer not only what is happening, but also why it is happening, what will happen next, and what to do now, often from noisy low-altitude UAV views and under tight on-site compute constraints.

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