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In particular, covering scenarios such as disaster areas may become particularly difficult due to infrastructure shortage in some areas, often impeding a cloud-based analysis of the data in near-real time. Enabling AI techniques at the edge is therefore fundamental so that UAVs themselves can both capture and process information to gain an understanding of their context, and determine the appropriate course of action in an independent manner. Towards this goal, in this paper, we take determined steps towards UAV autonomy in a disaster scenario such as a flood. In particular, we use a dataset of UAV images relative to different floods taking place in Spain, and then use an AI-based approach that relies on three widely used deep neural networks (DNNs) for semantic segmentation of images, to automatically determine the regions more affected by rains (flooded areas). The targeted algorithms are optimized for GPU-based edge computing platforms, so that the classification can be carried out on the UAVs themselves, and only the algorithm output is uploaded to the cloud for real-time tracking of the flooded areas. This way, we are able to reduce dependency on infrastructure, and to reduce network resource consumption, making the overall process greener and more robust to connection disruptions. Experimental results using different types of hardware and different architectures show that it is feasible to perform advanced real-time processing of UAV images using sophisticated DNN-based solutions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14010223","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,9]],"date-time":"2022-01-09T23:06:15Z","timestamp":1641769575000},"page":"223","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":89,"title":["Flood Detection Using Real-Time Image Segmentation from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Edge-Computing Platform"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8660-2253","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel","family":"Hern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department (DISCA), Universitat Polit\u00e9cnica de Val\u00e9ncia (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5648-214X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9 M.","family":"Cecilia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department (DISCA), Universitat Polit\u00e9cnica de Val\u00e9ncia (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0038-0539","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juan-Carlos","family":"Cano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department (DISCA), Universitat Polit\u00e9cnica de Val\u00e9ncia (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5729-3041","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carlos T.","family":"Calafate","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Engineering Department (DISCA), Universitat Polit\u00e9cnica de Val\u00e9ncia (UPV), 46022 Valencia, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Austin, R. 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