4 papers
City landscape in sight: A crowdsourced framework for unlocking urban-scale window view perceptions from real estate imagery
Chucai Peng, Sijie Yang, Ang Liu +3
City landscapes viewed through home windows influence quality of life, yet perceptions of actual window views at the urban scale remain understudied. This study presents an approac…
Reasoning Is All You Need for Urban Planning AI
Sijie Yang, Jiatong Li, Filip Biljecki
AI has proven highly successful at urban planning analysis -- learning patterns from data to predict future conditions. The next frontier is AI-assisted decision-making: agents tha…
Urban Comfort Assessment in the Era of Digital Planning: A Multidimensional, Data-driven, and AI-assisted Framework
Sijie Yang, Binyu Lei, Filip Biljecki
Ensuring liveability and comfort is one of the fundamental objectives of urban planning. Numerous studies have employed computational methods to assess and quantify factors related…
Thermal Comfort in Sight: Thermal Affordance and its Visual Assessment for Sustainable Streetscape Design
Sijie Yang, Adrian Chong, Pengyuan Liu +1
In response to climate change and urban heat island effects, enhancing human thermal comfort in cities is crucial for sustainable urban development. Traditional methods for investi…