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Water View Imagery: Perception and evaluation of urban waterscapes worldwide
Gathering knowledge about physical settings and visual information of places has long been of interest to a wide variety of fields as …
Junjie Luo
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Tianhong Zhao
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Lei Cao
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Filip Biljecki
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Home gardening in Singapore: A feasibility study on the utilization of the vertical space of retrofitted high-rise public housing apartment buildings to increase urban vegetable self-sufficiency
In land-scarce cities, high-rise apartment buildings may provide vertical spaces for natural-light home gardening along corridors, …
Shuang Song
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Jia Chin Cheong
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Joel S. H. Lee
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Jonathan K. N. Tan
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Zhongyu Chiam
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Srishti Arora
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Karl J. Q. Png
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Johanah W. C. Seow
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Felicia W. S. Leong
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Ankit Palliwal
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Filip Biljecki
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Abel Tablada
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Hugh T. W. Tan
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Semantic Riverscapes: Perception and evaluation of linear landscapes from oblique imagery using computer vision
Traditional approaches for visual perception and evaluation of river landscapes adopt on-site surveys or assessments through …
Junjie Luo
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Tianhong Zhao
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Lei Cao
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Filip Biljecki
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Generative Adversarial Networks in the Built Environment: A Comprehensive Review of the Application of GANs across Data Types and Scales
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a type of deep neural network that have achieved many state-of-the-art results for …
Abraham Noah Wu
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Rudi Stouffs
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Filip Biljecki
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Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications
Unsupervised learning (UL) has a long and successful history in untangling the complexity of cities. As the counterpart of supervised …
Wang Jing
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Filip Biljecki
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A review of spatially-explicit GeoAI applications in Urban Geography
Urban Geography studies forms, social fabrics, and economic structures of cities from a geographic perspective. Catalysed by the …
Pengyuan Liu
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Filip Biljecki
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3D building metrics for urban morphology
Urban morphology is important in a broad range of investigations across the fields of city planning, transportation, climate, energy, …
Anna Labetski
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Stelios Vitalis
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Filip Biljecki
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Ken Arroyo Ohori
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Jantien Stoter
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3D building reconstruction from single street view images using deep learning
3D building models are an established instance of geospatial information in the built environment, but their acquisition remains …
Pang Hui En
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Filip Biljecki
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Free and open source urbanism: Software for urban planning practice
Free and open source tools present numerous opportunities to support current urban planning practice. However, their overview is …
Winston Yap
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Patrick Janssen
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Filip Biljecki
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ifc2indoorgml: An open-source tool for generating IndoorGML from IFC
The interest in 3D indoor models has been continuously growing. Most such models are made available as point clouds or BIM (e.g., IFC), …
AA Diakite
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L Díaz-Vilariño
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Filip Biljecki
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Ü Isikdag
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S Simmons
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K Li
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S Zlatanova
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Infrared thermography in the built environment: A multi-scale review
The paper presents a review on major contributions in infrared thermography to study the built environment at multiple scales. To …
Miguel Martin
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Adrian Chong
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Filip Biljecki
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Clayton Miller
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Global Building Morphology Indicators
Characterising and analysing urban morphology is a continuous task in urban data science, environmental analyses, and many other …
Filip Biljecki
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Yoong Shin Chow
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Population estimation beyond counts---Inferring demographic characteristics
Mapping population distribution at a fine spatial scale is essential for urban studies and planning. Numerous studies, mainly supported …
Noée Szarka
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Filip Biljecki
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GANmapper: geographical data translation
We present a new method to create spatial data using a generative adversarial network (GAN). Our contribution uses coarse and widely …
Abraham Noah Wu
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Filip Biljecki
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Assessing bikeability with street view imagery and computer vision
Studies evaluating bikeability usually compute spatial indicators shaping cycling conditions and conflate them in a quantitative index. …
Koichi Ito
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Filip Biljecki
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Classification of Urban Morphology with Deep Learning: Application on Urban Vitality
There is a prevailing trend to study urban morphology quantitatively thanks to the growing accessibility to various forms of spatial …
Chen Wangyang
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Abraham Noah Wu
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Filip Biljecki
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Street view imagery in urban analytics and GIS: A review
Street view imagery has rapidly ascended as an important data source for geospatial data collection and urban analytics, deriving …
Filip Biljecki
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Koichi Ito
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Roofpedia: Automatic mapping of green and solar roofs for an open roofscape registry and evaluation of urban sustainability
Sustainable roofs, such as those with greenery and photovoltaic panels, contribute to the roadmap for reducing the carbon footprint of …
Abraham Noah Wu
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Filip Biljecki
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Emerging topics in 3D GIS
Filip Biljecki
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Rudi Stouffs
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Mohsen Kalantari
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3dfier: automatic reconstruction of 3D city models
Three-dimensional city models are essential to assess the impact that environmental factors will have on citizens, because they are the …
Hugo Ledoux
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Filip Biljecki
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Balázs Dukai
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Kavisha Kumar
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Ravi Peters
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Jantien Stoter
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Tom Commandeur
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3D city models for urban farming site identification in buildings
Studies have suggested that there is farming potential in urban residential buildings. However, these studies are limited in scope, …
Ankit Palliwal
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Shuang Song
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Hugh Tiang Wah Tan
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Filip Biljecki
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Reference study of IFC software support: The GeoBIM benchmark 2019---Part I
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), the buildingSMART open standard for BIM, is underused with respect to its promising potential, …
Francesca Noardo
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Thomas Krijnen
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Ken Arroyo Ohori
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Filip Biljecki
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Claire Ellul
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Lars Harrie
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Helen Eriksson
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Lorenzo Polia
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Nebras Salheb
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Helga Tauscher
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Jordi Van Liempt
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Hendrik Goerne
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Dean Hintz
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Tim Kaiser
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Cristina Leoni
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Artur Warchol
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Jantien Stoter
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Reference study of CityGML software support: The GeoBIM benchmark 2019---Part II
OGC CityGML is an open standard for 3D city models intended to foster interoperability and support various applications. However, …
Francesca Noardo
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Ken Arroyo Ohori
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Filip Biljecki
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Claire Ellul
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Lars Harrie
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Thomas Krijnen
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Helen Eriksson
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Jordi Van Liempt
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Maria Pla
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Antonio Ruiz
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Dean Hintz
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Nina Krueger
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Cristina Leoni
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Leire Leoz
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Diana Moraru
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Stelios Vitalis
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Philipp Willkomm
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Jantien Stoter
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Extending CityGML for IFC-sourced 3D city models
Differences in the scope and intent of the contrasting IFC and CityGML data formats entail that converting the former to the latter …
Filip Biljecki
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Joie Lim
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James Crawford
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Diana Moraru
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Helga Tauscher
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Amol Konde
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Kamel Adouane
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Simon Lawrence
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Patrick Janssen
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Rudi Stouffs
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Tools for BIM-GIS Integration (IFC Georeferencing and Conversions): Results from the GeoBIM Benchmark 2019
The integration of 3D city models with Building Information Models (BIM), coined as GeoBIM, facilitates improved data support to …
Francesca Noardo
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Lars Harrie
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Ken Arroyo Ohori
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Filip Biljecki
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Claire Ellul
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Thomas Krijnen
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Helen Eriksson
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Dogus Guler
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Dean Hintz
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Mojgan a Jadidi
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Maria Pla
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Santi Sanchez
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Ville-Pekka Soini
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Rudi Stouffs
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Jernej Tekavec
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Jantien Stoter
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An application-driven LOD modeling paradigm for 3D building models
The level of detail (LOD) concept for 3D building models, which indicates the degree of closeness between a model and its real-world …
Lei Tang
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Shen Ying
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Lin Li
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Filip Biljecki
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HaiHong Zhu
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Yi Zhu
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Fan Yang
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Fei Su
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Linking Persistent Scatterers to the Built Environment Using Ray Tracing on Urban Models
Persistent scatterers (PSs) are coherent measurement points obtained from time series of satellite radar images, which are used to …
Mengshi Yang
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Paco Lopez-Dekker
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Prabu Dheenathayalan
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Filip Biljecki
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Mingsheng Liao
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Ramon F Hanssen
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