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- New paper: Sensing climate justice
- A video about our research: Designing cities that feel like home
- New paper: Towards an Integrated Approach for Managing and Streaming 3D Spatial Data at the Component Level in Spatial Data Infrastructures
- New paper: Understanding the user perspective on urban public spaces
- New paper: Measuring the value of window views using real estate big data and computer vision
- New paper: Examining the causal impacts of the built environment on cycling activities using time-series street view imagery
- Visits from Finland, Thailand, Indonesia, Italy, and USA
- New paper: A perception-powered urban digital twin to support human-centered urban planning and sustainable city development
- New paper: Nighttime Street View Imagery
- New paper: A panorama-based technique to estimate sky view factor and solar irradiance considering transmittance of tree canopies
- New paper: Translating street view imagery to correct perspectives to enhance bikeability and walkability studies
- New paper: Microclimate vision
- Nine PhD graduations of our recent visiting scholars
- Happy 20th birthday OpenStreetMap!
- New paper: High-resolution mapping of urban Aedes aegypti immature abundance through breeding site detection based on satellite and street view imagery
- New paper: Evaluating human perception of building exteriors using street view imagery
- Introducing Global Streetscapes
- Exciting guest lectures at our group by four professors during July
- Our participation at the 3D GeoInfo 2024 conference
- New paper: Decarbonizing megacities: A spatiotemporal analysis considering inter-city travel and the 15-minute city concept
- New paper: Techniques and Tools for Integrating Building Material Stock Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment at the Urban Scale
- Guest lectures at Peking University and Tsinghua University
- New paper: Understanding Urban Perception with Visual Data
- Our university remains ranked as one of the best in the world 🌏
- UAL at the World Cities Summit 2024
- We are organising a Special Issue in EPB on Urban AI
- New paper: The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data
- New paper: Predicting building characteristics at urban scale using graph neural networks and street-level context
- Visit by Prof Yuhao Kang from the University of South Carolina & University of Texas at Austin
- Filip Biljecki joins the Editorial Board of Scientific Data
- New paper: G2Viz: an online tool for visualizing and analyzing a public transit system from GTFS data
- New paper: Assessing governance implications of city digital twin technology: A maturity model approach
- New paper: Mapping the landscape and roadmap of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) in quantitative human geography
- Government officials from five European cities visit our group
- New paper: Microclimate spatio-temporal prediction using deep learning and land use data
- The papers from 3D GeoInfo 2023 are published
- New paper: Continuing from the Sendai Framework midterm: Opportunities for urban digital twins in disaster risk management
- New paper: Learning visual features from figure-ground maps for urban morphology discovery
- New paper: Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data for Earth and Human Observations: A Review
- Happy Holidays from our Lab
- FOSS4G Asia and research visits in Seoul
- Visit by Prof Song Gao from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
- The GeoAI handbook is out and we are proudly part of it
- AGU 2023 and research visits in the United States
- New paper: Assessing the Equity and Evolution of Urban Visual Perceptual Quality with Time Series Street View Imagery
- New paper and dataset: District-scale surface temperatures generated from high-resolution longitudinal thermal infrared images
- The Building Data Genome Directory – An open, comprehensive data sharing platform for building performance research
- Keynote and papers at ACM BuildSys 2023, and introducing a Kaggle competition
- Invited conference talk and guest lecture in Korea
- Keynote at the International Land Use Symposium 2023
- Our activities at the Future Cities Lab Global conference at ETH Zurich
- Urban Informatics Paper of the Year Award (2023)
- Recent talks by our researchers in international events
- Guest lecture by Charmaine Ng from the Kyoto Institute of Technology
- New paper and open dataset: A Global Feature-Rich Network Dataset of Cities and Dashboard for Comprehensive Urban Analyses
- New paper: Global urban road network patterns
- New paper: Explainable spatially explicit geospatial artificial intelligence in urban analytics
- Our activities at the 11th International Conference on Urban Climate in Sydney
- Keynote at the City+2023@Perth International Conference
- Guest lecture by Angel Hsu from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Best paper award and keynote at the 3D GeoInfo 2023 conference
- Welcoming three new PhD researchers to the team
- Guest lecture by Gamze Dane from Eindhoven University of Technology
- Visits to Thai universities and organisations
- New paper and open-source software: Urbanity - automated modelling and analysis of multidimensional networks in cities
- Visit by UDDC from Chulalongkorn University
- Visits to Takenaka Corporation and Japanese universities
- Visit by Prof Carlo Ratti from MIT
- Visit by Dr Zhang Fan from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Keynote at CUSP London on 3D Urban Models: Applications and Digital Twins
- Our University is now ranked top 10 worldwide
- Our PhD researcher Binyu Lei's work featured in GIM International as a cover story
- Visits to Switzerland and Austria
- New paper: Sensitivity of measuring the urban form and greenery using street-level imagery
- Call for papers for a special issue (until June 2024)
- New paper: Insights in a city through the eyes of Airbnb reviews: Sensing urban characteristics from homestay guest experiences
- New paper: How spatio-temporal resolution impacts urban energy calibration
- New paper: Revealing spatio-temporal evolution of urban visual environments with street view imagery
- Visits to Liverpool and Heidelberg
- New paper: Developing a multiview spatiotemporal model based on deep graph neural networks to predict the travel demand by bus
- Integrating data on vegetation in digital twins - Takenaka Corporation and the Urban Analytics Lab
- New paper: Automatic assessment of public open spaces using street view imagery
- New paper: Quality of crowdsourced geospatial building information
- Visits by academics from Germany, China, and Poland
- Filip Biljecki chairs the ISPRS Working Group on Spatial Data Representation and Interoperability
- AAG 2023 and visits in the United States
- New paper: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database
- New paper: Knowledge and Topology
- Visits to Indonesian universities
- New paper: Towards Human-centric Digital Twins: Leveraging Computer Vision and Graph Models to Predict Outdoor Comfort
- Talk by Dr Yuhao Lu from the Singapore-ETH Centre
- Visit by Dr Yujin Park from Chung-Ang University
- CDE Awards and Recognition 2023
- Congratulations to Dr Pengyuan Liu on a faculty position!
- Visit by Dr Jonathan Natanian, Head of EPDL
- New paper: Challenges of Urban Digital Twins
- Our research featured in a CNA documentary in the skies
- Visit to Korea
- New paper: InstantCITY
- The PI of the Lab is on the list of top global 2% scientists
- New paper: Mining real estate ads and property transactions for building and amenity data acquisition
- New paper: Sensing urban soundscapes from street view imagery
- New paper: Incorporating Networks in Semantic Understanding of Streetscapes
- New paper: A comprehensive framework for evaluating the quality of street view imagery
- New paper: Assessing and benchmarking 3D city models
- New paper: Water View Imagery
- Release of a video feature about us!
- New paper: Food production potential of high-rise public housing apartment buildings
- All of our recent visiting scholars have been awarded prestigious scholarships
- UAL at the SDSC & 3D GeoInfo Joint Conference
- New paper: Semantic Riverscapes
- New paper: Generative Adversarial Networks in the built environment: A comprehensive review of the application of GANs across data types and scales
- New paper: Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications
- State of the Map 2022
- New paper: A review of spatially-explicit GeoAI applications in Urban Geography
- New paper: 3D building metrics for urban morphology
- Urban Analytics Lab on tour in the United States
- Our seminar on UAV
- New paper: 3D building reconstruction from single street view images using deep learning
- New paper: Free and open source urbanism: Software for urban planning practice
- Creating a map for the future
- ifc2indoorgml: An open-source tool for generating IndoorGML from IFC
- New paper: Infrared thermography in the built environment: A multi-scale review
- Introducing the Global Building Morphology Indicators
- New paper: Population estimation beyond counts—Inferring demographic characteristics
- Announcing the Urban Analytics Lab seminar series
- Welcome to our three new research fellows
- New paper: GANmapper - Geographical Data Translation
- A round-up of 2021
- Teaching Excellence Award
- New paper: Operational characteristics of residential air conditioners with temporally granular remote thermographic imaging
- New paper: The Internet-of-Buildings (IoB) --- Digital twin convergence of wearable and IoT data with GIS/BIM
- The PI of the Lab was appointed to the Editorial Board of Landscape and Urban Planning
- New paper: Assessing bikeability with street view imagery and computer vision
- UAL researchers develop AI-powered tool to map sustainable roofs globally
- Graduation projects completed at our Lab in 2021
- Welcome to our new researchers
- New paper: Classification of Urban Morphology with Deep Learning
- New paper: review on street view imagery in urban analytics and GIS
- Open Government Building Data
- New paper: Roofpedia
- NUS Urban Analytics Lab scales research globally with AWS
- Novel use of 3D geoinformation to identify urban farming sites
- Recent activities of the UAL: guest lectures and lab seminars
- Dr Filip Biljecki gave an invited talk at Geo Connect Asia 2021
- Our department is among the top 10 globally and best in Asia
- Publication of the collection Emerging topics in 3D GIS
- New paper: 3dfier: automatic reconstruction of 3D city models
- New paper: 3D city models for urban farming site identification in buildings
- OGC seeks public comment on new CityJSON Community Standard
- Two new papers: Reference study of IFC/CityGML software support
- SDE4 recognised as the first Zero Energy building in Southeast Asia
- New paper: Extending CityGML for IFC-sourced 3D city models
- Meet our junior members
- Recent activities of the Lab
- New report: Smart at Scale: Cities to Watch (25 Case Studies)
- Guest lecture by Jinal Foflia
- The PI of the Lab elected co-chair of the Open Geospatial Consortium 3DIM DWG
- New paper: How might an LoD Logic Framework Help to Bridge the 3D Cadastre Research-to-Practice Gap?
- New paper: Tools for BIM-GIS Integration (IFC Georeferencing and Conversions): Results from the GeoBIM Benchmark 2019
- Participation at the 3D GeoInfo 2020 conference
- New paper: Exploration of open data in Southeast Asia to generate 3D building models
- New paper: Visualising detailed CityGML and ADE at the building scale
- SDE signed MOU with Esri Singapore to expand research in geospatial analytics
- We are accepting PhD candidates
- New graduation projects completed at our Lab
- Filip Biljecki appointed as Presidential Young Professor
- Our participation at the State of the Map 2020
- Welcome, Abraham
- Guide for open urban data in Singapore
- Keynote at IACAD 2020
- Welcome, Yoong Shin
- OGC considering CityJSON as community standard
- Introducing the application-driven LOD modeling paradigm for 3D building models
- Thesis opportunities for undergrad and grad students
- Funding opportunities for prospective PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers
- Visit to Seoul, Korea
- Call for papers for our workshop at ACM ICMR 2020 in Dublin
- Our participation at the World Economic Forum - Global Future Councils 2019
- Welcome Jonas
- Participation at Geospatial Kuala Lumpur 2019
- 3D GeoInfo 2019 in Singapore: a success. Thanks everyone!
- Update on the GeoBIM benchmark
- Current trends, challenges, and gaps of contemporary 3D cadastre
- Paper on quality of BIM-GIS conversion
- Towards generating LoD2 models without aerial surveys using machine learning
- Special issue in Transactions in GIS on 3D city modelling and BIM
- Visit by students from HFT Stuttgart
- PhD and Postdoc fellowship opportunity (Faculty for the Future Fellowships)
- 3D GeoInfo 2019 conference in Singapore
- Li Jialin defends her thesis on analysing the influence of short-term rental business on housing prices
- ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019
- Visits to Korea and Japan
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