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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
New paper: Sensing urban soundscapes from street view imagery
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our research on developing a new use case of street view imagery.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-11-21
2 min read
New paper: Incorporating Networks in Semantic Understanding of Streetscapes
Environment and Planning B publishes our novel research on contextualising active mobility decisions.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-11-19
2 min read
New paper: A comprehensive framework for evaluating the quality of street view imagery
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.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-11-14
3 min read
New paper: Assessing and benchmarking 3D city models
The International Journal of Geographical Information Science publishes our study on characterising the properties of urban digital twins.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-11-10
2 min read
New paper: Water View Imagery
Ecological Indicators publishes our latest work on introducing a new kind of urban visual perspective for perception and evaluation studies of waterscapes worldwide.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-11-05
3 min read
New paper: Food production potential of high-rise public housing apartment buildings
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.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-11-01
4 min read
UAL at the SDSC & 3D GeoInfo Joint Conference
We contributed four papers to the jointly organised 7th Smart Data Smart Cities & 17th 3D GeoInfo events at UNSW Sydney.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-10-18
3 min read
New paper: Semantic Riverscapes
Landscape and Urban Planning publishes our novel workflow for visual analysis of urban river landscapes by combining UAV oblique photography with CV and VR.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-09-23
3 min read
New paper: Generative Adversarial Networks in the built environment: A comprehensive review of the application of GANs across data types and scales
Building and Environment publishes our new review paper.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-08-22
2 min read
New paper: Unsupervised machine learning in urban studies: A systematic review of applications
Cities publishes our review paper in the domain of machine learning.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-08-20
2 min read
New paper: A review of spatially-explicit GeoAI applications in Urban Geography
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation publishes our new review paper.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-08-12
2 min read
New paper: 3D building metrics for urban morphology
IJGIS publishes a significant advancement in characterising buildings in 3D.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-08-01
2 min read
New paper: 3D building reconstruction from single street view images using deep learning
A new approach to generate 3D models while tackling the common issue of obstructed objects in street-level imagery.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-06-17
3 min read
New paper: Free and open source urbanism: Software for urban planning practice
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems publishes our new review paper.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-06-10
2 min read
Creating a map for the future
Proof of Passion: NUS News profiles the PI of the Lab, one the University’s Presidential Young Professors.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-06-09
6 min read
ifc2indoorgml: An open-source tool for generating IndoorGML from IFC
Collaboration with UNSW and others in the frame of ISPRS.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-06-05
3 min read
New paper: Infrared thermography in the built environment: A multi-scale review
Collaboration with our sister labs, published in RSER.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-05-24
2 min read
New paper: Population estimation beyond counts—Inferring demographic characteristics
Our work on advancing the state of the art of predicting population has been published in PLOS ONE.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-04-06
3 min read
New paper: GANmapper - Geographical Data Translation
In our latest publication in IJGIS, we present an entirely new way to generate maps of building footprints and other urban features.
Urban Analytics Lab
2022-03-09
3 min read
New paper: Operational characteristics of residential air conditioners with temporally granular remote thermographic imaging
A collaborative paper presented at BuildSys 2021.
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-11-30
3 min read
New paper: The Internet-of-Buildings (IoB) --- Digital twin convergence of wearable and IoT data with GIS/BIM
Collaboration with our two sister labs, presented at CISBAT 2021.
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-11-19
2 min read
New paper: Assessing bikeability with street view imagery and computer vision
Transportation Research Part C publishes our novel work on the application of computer vision in gauging cycling appeal in cities
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-09-20
3 min read
UAL researchers develop AI-powered tool to map sustainable roofs globally
Our research is in the news again. Our method ranks Singapore highly amongst 17 cities for solar roof utilisation
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-09-10
6 min read
New paper: Classification of Urban Morphology with Deep Learning
A leading journal – Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, publishes our pioneering work on the application of computer vision in studying the urban form
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-08-22
3 min read
New paper: review on street view imagery in urban analytics and GIS
Landscape and Urban Planning, a top journal in the field, publishes our comprehensive exploration on this growing urban data source
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-08-14
3 min read
Project
New paper: Roofpedia
UAL’s research on sustainable rooftops was published by Landscape and Urban Planning
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-06-24
3 min read
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Project
NUS Urban Analytics Lab scales research globally with AWS
UAL’s AWS-supported urban toolkits and databases were featured on Amazon’s Public Service blog
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-05-23
3 min read
Novel use of 3D geoinformation to identify urban farming sites
The tool allows for the maximisation of crop yields within buildings
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-04-18
4 min read
Publication of the collection Emerging topics in 3D GIS
A special issue we organised in Transactions in GIS
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-02-17
3 min read
New paper: 3dfier: automatic reconstruction of 3D city models
A software paper published in the Journal of Open Source Software.
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-01-28
3 min read
New paper: 3D city models for urban farming site identification in buildings
A novel application of 3D geoinformation, published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-01-11
3 min read
Project
Two new papers: Reference study of IFC/CityGML software support
The GeoBIM benchmark is concluded with two papers published back-to-back in Transactions in GIS
Urban Analytics Lab
2021-01-04
4 min read
Project
New paper: Extending CityGML for IFC-sourced 3D city models
Development of an application domain extension published in Automation in Construction
Urban Analytics Lab
2020-11-16
2 min read
Project
New paper: How might an LoD Logic Framework Help to Bridge the 3D Cadastre Research-to-Practice Gap?
FIG Working Week 2020. A Proposal for a Level of Implementation Framework
Urban Analytics Lab
2020-09-15
2 min read
Project
New paper: Tools for BIM-GIS Integration (IFC Georeferencing and Conversions): Results from the GeoBIM Benchmark 2019
A new collaborative paper in which we have been involved has been published
Urban Analytics Lab
2020-09-14
3 min read
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