6 papers
FRIEDA: Benchmarking Multi-Step Cartographic Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Jiyoon Pyo, Yuankun Jiao, Dongwon Jung +11
Cartographic reasoning is the skill of interpreting geographic relationships by aligning legends, map scales, compass directions, map texts, and geometries across one or more map i…
BeSTAD: Behavior-Aware Spatio-Temporal Anomaly Detection for Human Mobility Data
Junyi Xie, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang +2
Traditional anomaly detection in human mobility has primarily focused on trajectory-level analysis, identifying statistical outliers or spatiotemporal inconsistencies across aggreg…
HiCoTraj:Zero-Shot Demographic Reasoning via Hierarchical Chain-of-Thought Prompting from Trajectory
Junyi Xie, Yuankun Jiao, Jina Kim +3
Inferring demographic attributes such as age, sex, or income level from human mobility patterns enables critical applications such as targeted public health interventions, equitabl…
StreetLens: Enabling Human-Centered AI Agents for Neighborhood Assessment from Street View Imagery
Jina Kim, Leeje Jang, Yao-Yi Chiang +2
Traditionally, neighborhood studies have used interviews, surveys, and manual image annotation guided by detailed protocols to identify environmental characteristics, including phy…
Context-Aware Trajectory Anomaly Detection
Haoji Hu, Jina Kim, Jinwei Zhou +3
Trajectory anomaly detection is crucial for effective decision-making in urban and human mobility management. Existing methods of trajectory anomaly detection generally focus on tr…
Automatic Search of Multiword Place Names on Historical Maps
Rhett Olson, Jina Kim, Yao-Yi Chiang
Historical maps are invaluable sources of information about the past, and scanned historical maps are increasingly accessible in online libraries. To retrieve maps from these large…