4 papers
Sidewalk Moments: Are Richer Representations Always More Human-Aligned? Evidence from City-Walk Videos
Liu Liu, Freya Huying Tan, Fábio Duarte
We examine whether richer visual representations yield more human-aligned measures of urban engagement, using 61 first-person city-walk videos from YouTube segmented into over 50,0…
Human vs. AI Safety Perception? Decoding Human Safety Perception with Eye-Tracking Systems, Street View Images, and Explainable AI
Yuhao Kang, Junda Chen, Liu Liu +5
The way residents perceive safety plays an important role in how they use public spaces. Studies have combined large-scale street view images and advanced computer vision technique…
LocationReasoner: Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Site Selection Reasoning
Miho Koda, Yu Zheng, Ruixian Ma +4
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs), particularly those enhanced through reinforced post-training, have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, as exemplified b…
Understanding Place Identity with Generative AI
Kee Moon Jang, Junda Chen, Yuhao Kang +3
Researchers are constantly leveraging new forms of data with the goal of understanding how people perceive the built environment and build the collective place identity of cities.…