News

Urban Informatics publishes our novel method on collecting data on buildings, which are essential for many domains.

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our research on developing a new use case of street view imagery.

Environment and Planning B publishes our novel research on contextualising active mobility decisions.

The Int’l J of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation publishes our development of the first method to assess the quality of street view imagery.

The International Journal of Geographical Information Science publishes our study on characterising the properties of urban digital twins.

Ecological Indicators publishes our latest work on introducing a new kind of urban visual perspective for perception and evaluation studies of waterscapes worldwide.

Building smarter, more sustainable, liveable cities: The Urban Analytics Lab.

Home gardening in Singapore: A feasibility study, supported by 3D & digital twins, on the utilisation of the vertical space of retrofitted residential buildings to increase urban vegetable self-sufficiency.

We are proud of our three visiting PhD students from China. 🏆

We contributed four papers to the jointly organised 7th Smart Data Smart Cities & 17th 3D GeoInfo events at UNSW Sydney.

Landscape and Urban Planning publishes our novel workflow for visual analysis of urban river landscapes by combining UAV oblique photography with CV and VR.

Building and Environment publishes our new review paper.

Cities publishes our review paper in the domain of machine learning.

We are contributing to OpenStreetMap’s flagship conference.

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation publishes our new review paper.

IJGIS publishes a significant advancement in characterising buildings in 3D.

The PI of the Lab gave talks at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and 6 other universities.

An increasingly important platform for our research.

A new approach to generate 3D models while tackling the common issue of obstructed objects in street-level imagery.

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our new review paper.

Proof of Passion: NUS News profiles the PI of the Lab, one the University’s Presidential Young Professors.

Collaboration with UNSW and others in the frame of ISPRS.

Collaboration with our sister labs, published in RSER.

A paper on our latest project has been published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. And more.

Our work on advancing the state of the art of predicting population has been published in PLOS ONE.

Furthering our community engagement and bringing researchers together.

Strenghtening our team with leading researchers and domain experts.

In our latest publication in IJGIS, we present an entirely new way to generate maps of building footprints and other urban features.

Our students published in leading journals and our papers are among the top 2% according to a Stanford study.

Recognition of education excellence and commitment.

A collaborative paper presented at BuildSys 2021.

Collaboration with our two sister labs, presented at CISBAT 2021.

The journal is within top 1% outlets in Urban Studies.

A non-exhaustive list of research data repositories and a comparison of them.

Transportation Research Part C publishes our novel work on the application of computer vision in gauging cycling appeal in cities

Our research is in the news again. Our method ranks Singapore highly amongst 17 cities for solar roof utilisation

We are proud to announce that in the last few months, four students have completed their studies by carrying out a graduation project with us.

Hello Binyu, Yujun, Leon, Mengbi, and Winston

A leading journal – Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, publishes our pioneering work on the application of computer vision in studying the urban form

Landscape and Urban Planning, a top journal in the field, publishes our comprehensive exploration on this growing urban data source

UAL’s research on sustainable rooftops was published by Landscape and Urban Planning

Research conducted by our Master of Urban Planning students offers public transport optimisations

UAL’s AWS-supported urban toolkits and databases were featured on Amazon’s Public Service blog

The tool allows for the maximisation of crop yields within buildings

Guest lectures with Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Grab

Inaugural conference of geospatial leaders in Asia

The 2021 QS World University Rankings by subject are released

A special issue we organised in Transactions in GIS

A software paper published in the Journal of Open Source Software.

A novel application of 3D geoinformation, published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems