6 papers
Uncovering the Associations between Human Big Five Personality Traits and Built Environment Characteristics from Street View Imagery
Koichi Ito, Yuhao Kang, Samuel D Gosling +3
Human-environment interactions, a classic topic in geography, suggest that individuals and their environments might shape each other. Yet the specific mechanisms underlying these i…
Examining the Associations between Visual and Non-Visual Elements and Cyclists' Route Choices for Various Trip Purposes
Heyang Hua, Koichi Ito, Filip Biljecki
Understanding cyclist preferences for the characteristics of the built environment is important in promoting sustainable urban transportation and active mobility. Despite previous…
It is not always greener on the other side: Greenery perception across demographics and personalities in multiple cities
Matias Quintana, Fangqi Liu, Jussi Torkko +9
Quantifying and assessing urban greenery is consequential for planning and development, reflecting the everlasting importance of green spaces for multiple climate and well-being di…
VoxCity: A Seamless Framework for Open Geospatial Data Integration, Grid-Based Semantic 3D City Model Generation, and Urban Environment Simulation
Kunihiko Fujiwara, Ryuta Tsurumi, Tomoki Kiyono +6
Three-dimensional urban environment simulation is a powerful tool for informed urban planning. However, the intensive manual effort required to prepare input 3D city models has hin…
Global urban visual perception varies across demographics and personalities
Matias Quintana, Youlong Gu, Xiucheng Liang +5
Understanding people's preferences is crucial for urban planning, yet current approaches often combine responses from multi-cultural populations, obscuring demographic differences…
ZenSVI: An Open-Source Software for the Integrated Acquisition, Processing and Analysis of Street View Imagery Towards Scalable Urban Science
Koichi Ito, Yihan Zhu, Mahmoud Abdelrahman +9
Street view imagery (SVI) has been instrumental in many studies in the past decade to understand and characterize street features and the built environment. Researchers across a va…