The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

The interest in social media sentiment analysis and opinion mining for public security events
has increased over the years. The availability of social media platforms for communication …

During the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), people use social media
to acquire and exchange various types of information at a historic and unprecedented scale …

Abstract Discriminative Correlation Filters (DCF) are efficient in visual tracking but suffer from
unwanted boundary effects. Spatially Regularized DCF (SRDCF) has been suggested to …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

Hate content in social media is ever increasing. While Facebook, Twitter, Google have
attempted to take several steps to tackle the hateful content, they have mostly been …

Sudden-onset disasters put forward new requirements for on the state authorities' ability to
analyze public opinion sentiment. However, traditional sentiment analysis methods ignore …

The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during conflicts and crises. Social media allow emergency services to …

The research field of crisis informatics examines, amongst others, the potentials and barriers
of social media use during disasters and emergencies. Social media allow emergency …

Social media communication serves as an integral part of the crisis response following a
mass emergency (disaster) event. Regardless of the kind of disaster event, whether it is a …