4 papers
Enhancing the Socioeconomic Understanding of Foundation Models with Urban Mobility
Baoshen Guo, Donghang Li, Zhiqing Hong +4
Foundation models have recently been applied to urban socioeconomic prediction using POI text, satellite imagery, and geospatial descriptions. However, these models mostly rely on…
SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment
Kailai Sun, Mingyi He, Heye Huang +5
Urban Building Energy Modeling plays a critical role in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 11. Although existing studies based on satellite imagery a…
Designing streetscapes from street-view imagery using diffusion models
Yuzhou Chen, Yuebing Liang, Lingqian Hu +4
Street-view imagery (SVI) is widely used to quantify key indicators of urban environment, such as green- ery, sky, or road view indices. However, existing studies largely focus on…
Envisioning global urban development with satellite imagery and generative AI
Kailai Sun, Yuebing Liang, Mingyi He +5
Urban development has been a defining force in human history, shaping cities for centuries. However, past studies mostly analyze such development as predictive tasks, failing to re…