Publications
These are our publications since the Lab was established in 2019 (earlier publications of the PI of the Lab Dr Filip Biljecki are available here). We strive to publish open access papers whenever possible. The PDFs available here are either published as gold or green open access (usually postprints). For the authoritative publication please visit the publisher’s website linked through the DOI of the article. For code and data check our Github page or follow the links noted in the publications.
Please note that this list does not include preprints, but frequently we post them on arXiv, so feel free to check there for our latest work that is not yet published in journals or conferences.
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. …
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 big data, increasing computing power, and use cases benefiting from such information.
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 insights and supporting informed decisions.
Hierarchical (Multi-Label) Architectural Image Recognition and Classification
The first author of the paper, Jielin Chen, was awarded with the Young CAADRIA Award. The task of architectural image recognition for both architectural functionality and style remains an open challenge.
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 input to several simulation and prediction software.
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, …
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, since, according to the experience of practitioners and researchers working with BIM, issues in the standard’s implementation and use prevent its effective use.
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, through our practical experience and discussions with practitioners, we have noticed several problems related to the implementation of the standard and the use of standardized data.
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 results in loss of information.
Smart at Scale: Cities to Watch - 25 Case Studies
The World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization has leveraged its knowledge, networks and the public to identify 25 leading smart city projects that have successfully moved beyond the pilot stage.
Visualising detailed CityGML and ADE at the building scale
There is an increasing activity in developing workflows and implementations to convert BIM data into CityGML. However, there are still not many platforms that are suitable to view and interact with the detailed information stored as a result of such conversions, especially if an Application Domain Extension (ADE) is involved to support additional information.
GeoBIM benchmark -- ISPRS Scientific initiative 2019 -- Final report
In both research and practice, data interoperability is considered essential to support a rising number of applications that need data from different domains.
Exploration of open data in Southeast Asia to generate 3D building models
This article investigates the current status of generating 3D building models across 11 countries in Southeast Asia from publicly available data, primarily volunteered geoinformation (OpenStreetMap).
Assessing the quality of OpenStreetMap building data in Singapore
As OpenStreetMap is getting increasingly popular due to its open-license nature and collaborative aspect, its data quality is …
Tools for BIM-GIS Integration (IFC Georeferencing and Conversions): Results from the GeoBIM Benchmark 2019
Update 2020-09-26: The paper was featured as the cover story of the September 2020 issue of IJGI!
The integration of 3D city models with Building Information Models (BIM), coined as GeoBIM, facilitates improved data support to several applications, eg, 3D map updates, building permits issuing, detailed city analysis, infrastructure design, context-based building design, to name a few.
ICDAR'20: Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval
The First International Workshop on “Intelligence Cross-Data Analytics and Retrieval” (ICDAR'20) welcomes any theoretical and practical works on intelligence cross-data analytics and retrieval to bring the smart-sustainable society to human beings.
How might an LoD Logic Framework Help to Bridge the 3D Cadastre Research-to-Practice Gap? A Proposal for a Level of Implementation Framework
During the past decade, hundreds of research papers have been published on the challenge of registering multi-level properties in land …
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 …
The implementation of big data analysis in regulating online short-term rental business: a case of Airbnb in Beijing
With the fast expansion and controversial impacts of short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb, many cities have called for regulating …
Graph transformation rules for IFC-to-CityGML attribute conversion
In model transformation, the population of attributes on the target side constitutes the last step of the conversion process that …
GeoBIM benchmark 2019: intermediate results
An investigation into the implementation state of open standards in software is currently ongoing through the ISPRS/EuroSDR ‘GeoBIM …
Considerations for a contemporary 3D cadastre for our times
A significant number of studies has been carried out to establish 3D cadastre solutions to improve the registration of multi-level …
Raise the roof: towards generating LoD2 models without aerial surveys using machine learning
LoD2 models include roof shapes and thus provide added value over their LoD1 counterparts for some applications such as estimating the …
Quality of BIM-GIS conversion
Much work has been done on quality of geoinformation and interoperability between BIM and GIS. However, the intersection of the two – …
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 …
GeoBIM benchmark 2019: design and initial results
GeoBIM, the integration of 3D geoinformation (Geo) with building information models (BIM), is a subject of increasing attention in both …
