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New paper: Sensing climate justice
Sustainable Cities and Society publishes our multi-hyper graph approach for classifying urban heat and flood vulnerability through street view imagery.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-12-19
2 min read
New paper: Towards an Integrated Approach for Managing and Streaming 3D Spatial Data at the Component Level in Spatial Data Infrastructures
IJGIS publishes our work on design rationales and a unified conceptual model suitable for component-level management of diverse 3D spatial data.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-12-17
3 min read
New paper: Understanding the user perspective on urban public spaces
Cities publishes our new systematic review with a focus on opportunities for machine learning.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-11-07
2 min read
New paper: Measuring the value of window views using real estate big data and computer vision
Cities publishes our work on quantifying and analysing views from images obtained from online ads in China.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-11-02
2 min read
New paper: Examining the causal impacts of the built environment on cycling activities using time-series street view imagery
Transportation Research Part A publishes our work on examining the causal relationships between street features and cycling mobility.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-10-23
2 min read
New paper: A perception-powered urban digital twin to support human-centered urban planning and sustainable city development
Cities publishes our method and implementation of public-centered UDTs for automatic perception simulations to enhance citizen participation and collaboration.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-10-21
3 min read
New paper: Nighttime Street View Imagery
Sustainable Cities and Society publishes our work on a new perspective for sensing urban lighting landscape.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-10-19
3 min read
New paper: A panorama-based technique to estimate sky view factor and solar irradiance considering transmittance of tree canopies
Building and Environment publishes our new take on the sky view factor.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-09-15
3 min read
New paper: Translating street view imagery to correct perspectives to enhance bikeability and walkability studies
The International Journal of Geographical Information Science publishes our advancement enabling more accurate street-level data for urban planners.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-09-01
2 min read
New paper: Microclimate vision
Sustainable Cities and Society publishes our novel method to multimodal prediction of climatic parameters using street-level and satellite imagery.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-08-18
2 min read
New paper: High-resolution mapping of urban Aedes aegypti immature abundance through breeding site detection based on satellite and street view imagery
Scientific Reports publishes our collaborative paper that presents a method to detect mosquito breeding sites using satellite and street view imagery.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-08-07
2 min read
New paper: Evaluating human perception of building exteriors using street view imagery
Building and Environment publishes our novel method to assess the impressions of architecture at the urban scale.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-08-06
2 min read
Our participation at the 3D GeoInfo 2024 conference
We had three papers at the flagship conference in 3D GIS and urban digital twins, hosted by the University of Vigo in Spain.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-07-07
4 min read
New paper: Decarbonizing megacities: A spatiotemporal analysis considering inter-city travel and the 15-minute city concept
Cities publishes our collaborative paper that presents a workflow for revealing spatiotemporal dynamics of road CO2 emissions and decarbonization potentials.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-07-04
2 min read
New paper: Techniques and Tools for Integrating Building Material Stock Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment at the Urban Scale
Building and Environment publishes our collaborative paper that presents a systematic literature review on this topic.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-07-03
2 min read
New paper: Understanding Urban Perception with Visual Data
Cities publishes our new comprehensive literature review, which was semi-automated to analyse the rich body of knowledge.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-06-22
3 min read
New paper: The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data
Computer Graphics Forum publishes our collaborative paper that characterizes published works along three main dimensions.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-06-15
2 min read
New paper: Predicting building characteristics at urban scale using graph neural networks and street-level context
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our new research on mitigating the lack of information of the building stock.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-05-20
3 min read
New paper: G2Viz: an online tool for visualizing and analyzing a public transit system from GTFS data
Public Transport publishes our collaborative paper that presents a powerful platform designed for visualizing and analyzing GTFS data.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-05-09
2 min read
New paper: Assessing governance implications of city digital twin technology: A maturity model approach
Technological Forecasting and Social Change publishes our collaborative paper that presents a classification of urban digital twins with respect to their technological maturity.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-05-07
2 min read
New paper: Mapping the landscape and roadmap of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) in quantitative human geography
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation publishes our collaborative extensive systematic review.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-04-11
3 min read
New paper: Microclimate spatio-temporal prediction using deep learning and land use data
Building and Environment publishes our collaborative paper that presents a new method to interpolate microclimate data at a detailed spatial and temporal resolution.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-03-04
3 min read
The papers from 3D GeoInfo 2023 are published
We contributed to this conference with two papers, which are now available in a book that is part of the Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-02-22
2 min read
New paper: Continuing from the Sendai Framework midterm: Opportunities for urban digital twins in disaster risk management
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction publishes our new review paper on urban disaster risk management since the Sendai Framework’s adoption in 2015 until 2022.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-02-07
2 min read
New paper: Learning visual features from figure-ground maps for urban morphology discovery
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our new research on using unsupervised machine learning in understanding the urban form.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-02-04
2 min read
New paper: Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data for Earth and Human Observations: A Review
Journal of Remote Sensing publishes our collaborative paper that presents a comprehensive review on VGI.
Urban Analytics Lab
2024-01-23
3 min read
The GeoAI handbook is out and we are proudly part of it
A new consolidated effort of the Geospatial AI community and our contribution focused on Urban Sensing.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-12-17
2 min read
New paper: Assessing the Equity and Evolution of Urban Visual Perceptual Quality with Time Series Street View Imagery
Cities publishes our new research on using historical street-level imagery for data-driven urban planning and real estate.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-12-10
2 min read
New paper and dataset: District-scale surface temperatures generated from high-resolution longitudinal thermal infrared images
Scientific Data publishes our collaborative paper that presents a new kind of an urban dataset.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-12-04
3 min read
The Building Data Genome Directory – An open, comprehensive data sharing platform for building performance research
An open data-sharing platform serving as a one-stop shop for the data necessary for vital categories of building energy research.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-12-03
2 min read
Keynote and papers at ACM BuildSys 2023, and introducing a Kaggle competition
Contribution to the International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-11-19
3 min read
Urban Informatics Paper of the Year Award (2023)
The published research led by our master graduate Xinyu Chen has been recognised with a best journal paper award.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-10-10
3 min read
New paper and open dataset: A Global Feature-Rich Network Dataset of Cities and Dashboard for Comprehensive Urban Analyses
Scientific Data publishes our open dataset from the Urbanity project to support network analysis.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-10-01
3 min read
New paper: Global urban road network patterns
Landscape and Urban Planning publishes our work on unveiling multiscale planning paradigms of 144 cities with a novel deep learning approach.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-09-30
2 min read
New paper: Explainable spatially explicit geospatial artificial intelligence in urban analytics
Environment and Planning B publishes our position paper on explainable spatially explicit GeoAI.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-09-29
2 min read
Best paper award and keynote at the 3D GeoInfo 2023 conference
Our active participation at the flagship conference in 3D GIS and urban digital twins, hosted at the Technical University of Munich.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-09-17
2 min read
New paper and open-source software: Urbanity - automated modelling and analysis of multidimensional networks in cities
npj Urban Sustainability publishes our work that describes the latest methodological and software development in network analysis.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-07-31
3 min read
New paper: Sensitivity of measuring the urban form and greenery using street-level imagery
JAG publishes our comparative study of approaches and visual perspectives with street view images.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-06-18
5 min read
New paper: Insights in a city through the eyes of Airbnb reviews: Sensing urban characteristics from homestay guest experiences
Cities publishes our work on uncovering a new use case of a nascent form of user-generated geographic information.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-06-06
2 min read
New paper: How spatio-temporal resolution impacts urban energy calibration
Energy and Buildings publishes a collaborative paper that brings advancements to the discourse on resolution and accuracy in urban energy models.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-05-26
3 min read
New paper: Revealing spatio-temporal evolution of urban visual environments with street view imagery
Landscape and Urban Planning publishes our work on a new use case of street-level imagery and its temporal aspect.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-05-18
2 min read
New paper: Developing a multiview spatiotemporal model based on deep graph neural networks to predict the travel demand by bus
IJGIS publishes a collaborative paper that presents a novel method to predict short-term travel demand by bus.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-04-27
2 min read
New paper: Automatic assessment of public open spaces using street view imagery
Cities publishes our work on using unconventional (off-road) street-level imagery for a new use case.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-04-23
3 min read
New paper: Quality of crowdsourced geospatial building information
Building and Environment publishes our global assessment of OpenStreetMap attributes.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-04-21
3 min read
New paper: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database
Scientific Data publishes a collaborative paper that, with 200+ million individual buildings, presents one of the most comprehensive efforts on building information globally.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-03-20
4 min read
New paper: Knowledge and Topology
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing publishes our work ‘A Two Layer Spatially Dependent Graph Neural Networks to Identify Urban Functions with Time-series Street View Image’.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-03-17
3 min read
New paper: Towards Human-centric Digital Twins: Leveraging Computer Vision and Graph Models to Predict Outdoor Comfort
Sustainable Cities and Society publishes our novel work on spatio-temporal-explicit GeoAI to predict human outdoor comfort.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-03-11
2 min read
New paper: Challenges of Urban Digital Twins
Automation in Construction publishes our systematic review and a Delphi expert survey to understand hindrances to adopting DTs.
Urban Analytics Lab
2023-01-05
3 min read
New paper: InstantCITY
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing publishes our novel work on synthesising morphologically accurate geospatial data for urban form analysis, transfer, and quality control.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-12-04
3 min read
New paper: Mining real estate ads and property transactions for building and amenity data acquisition
Urban Informatics publishes our novel method on collecting data on buildings, which are essential for many domains.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-11-24
2 min read
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