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Mapping the world population one building at a time
Tobias G. Tiecke, Xianming Liu, Amy Zhang +8
High resolution datasets of population density which accurately map sparsely-distributed human populations do not exist at a global scale. Typically, population data is obtained us…
Building Detection from Satellite Images on a Global Scale
Amy Zhang, Xianming Liu, Andreas Gros +1
In the last several years, remote sensing technology has opened up the possibility of performing large scale building detection from satellite imagery. Our work is some of the firs…
Feedback Neural Network for Weakly Supervised Geo-Semantic Segmentation
Xianming Liu, Amy Zhang, Tobias Tiecke +2
Learning from weakly-supervised data is one of the main challenges in machine learning and computer vision, especially for tasks such as image semantic segmentation where labeling…
Sentiment in New York City: A High Resolution Spatial and Temporal View
Karla Z. Bertrand, Maya Bialik, Kawandeep Virdee +2
Measuring public sentiment is a key task for researchers and policymakers alike. The explosion of available social media data allows for a more time-sensitive and geographically sp…
Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots
Andreas Gros, Alexander Gard-Murray, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Yemen is considered a global terrorist base for Al-Qaeda and in recent years rampant violence is threatening social order. Here we show that the socio-economic origins of violence…
Modeling Policy and Agricultural Decisions in Afghanistan
Michael J. Widener, Yavni Bar-Yam, Andreas Gros +2
Afghanistan is responsible for the majority of the world's supply of poppy crops, which are often used to produce illegal narcotics like heroin. This paper presents an agent-based…