3 papers
cs.LG2026
Spatially-constrained clustering of geospatial features for heat vulnerability assessment of favelas in Rio de Janeiro
Baptiste Clemence, Thomas Hallopeau, Vanderlei Pascoal De Matos +2
Informal settlements face disproportionate exposure to climate-related health hazards. However, existing methodologies lack systematic approaches to link diverse settlement charact…
cs.CV2025
Mapping Rio de Janeiro's favelas: general-purpose vs. satellite-specific neural networks
Thomas Hallopeau, Joris Guérin, Laurent Demagistri +5
While deep learning methods for detecting informal settlements have already been developed, they have not yet fully utilized the potential offered by recent pretrained neural netwo…
cs.LG2025
Neighbor-aware informal settlement mapping with graph convolutional networks
Thomas Hallopeau, Joris Guérin, Laurent Demagistri +2
Mapping informal settlements is crucial for addressing challenges related to urban planning, public health, and infrastructure in rapidly growing cities. Geospatial machine learnin…