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Urban Analytics Lab
National University of Singapore
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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
3D cadastre
BIM-GIS interoperability
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
Urban Modelling and Smart Cities
Big Data in Real Estate
GeoBIM Benchmark
ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019
Visits to Korea and Japan
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