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ASTRIL-MPC: Autonomous Traversal Framework of Articulated Tracked Robots with Language-Guided Neural-Kinematic MPC

arXiv:2609.13083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In urban search and rescue, articulated tracked robots (ATRs) must traverse structured but contact-rich environments such as stairwells and cluttered bu

14 Sept 2026

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RouteRepair: Instance-Level Failure Diagnosis and Targeted Repair in LLM-Based Automated Heuristic Design for Routing Optimization

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.11452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient routing optimization is essential to freight transportation, urban logistics, and shared mobility, where high-quality heuristics are often req

researcharxiv-cs-ai

12 Sept 2026

Guided Super-Resolution of Digital Elevation Models with Diffusion-Based Image Generators

arXiv:2609.11886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution digital surface models (DSMs) play an important role in urban analysis, 3D building reconstruction, and infrastructure monitoring, yet t

researcharxiv-cs-cv

11 Sept 2026

A Risk-Sensitive and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making and Control Framework for Safe and Robust Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.09650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated considerable potential for autonomous driving decision-making. However, its deployment in urban autonomous

10 Sept 2026

StreetDiff: Multi-view Street Scenes Generation via Cross-view Consistent Multi-view Stable Diffusion with Structure Prompts

arXiv:2609.09890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view diffusion models have shown strong performance in scenes with strong geometric priors and sparse semantics, such as indoor rooms or simple ou

10 Sept 2026

AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2609.08442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation requires drones to follow natural-language instructions and navigate through complex urban environments. Accurate

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

Local Ai

Hyperspectral Trajectory Image for Multi-Month Trajectory Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2603.25255v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Trajectory anomaly detection underpins applications from fraud detection to urban mobility analysis. Dense GPS methods preserve fine-grained evidenc

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

Re-engineering SORT-based algorithms for low-cost small object tracking from omnidirectional footage

arXiv:2609.07547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) has advanced rapidly in urban surveillance and autonomous driving, yet many trackers rely on ReID- and transformer-based app

Sparse Gain Radio Map Reconstruction With Geometry Priors and Uncertainty-Guided Measurement Selection

arXiv:2604.05788v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Radio maps are important for environment-aware wireless communication, network planning, and radio resource optimization. However, dense radio map c

Towards Embodied Air-Ground Cooperative Object Search: Benchmark, Dataset and Agentic Method

arXiv:2609.08402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air-Ground Object Search (AGOS) in urban environments is a challenging embodied task, which requires an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and an Unmanned Gr

TrajMind: Chaining Role-Specialized LoRAs for Fast-and-Slow Collective Trajectory Anomaly Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.02540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnosing collective anomalies from urban trajectories is increasingly important for traffic governance, as it reveals what happened, who was involved,

3 Sept 2026

VIPS: Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative Planning Benchmark via Pseudo-Simulation

arXiv:2609.02462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving in urban environments requires robust decision-making under partial observability and complex multi-agent interactions. Se

3 Sept 2026

BinWalker: Development and Field Evaluation of a Quadruped Manipulator Platform for Sustainable Litter Collection

arXiv:2603.10529v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Litter pollution represents a growing environmental problem affecting natural and urban ecosystems worldwide. Waste discarded in public spaces often

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

2 Sept 2026

BEACON: Behavioral and Semantic Enrichment of AlphaEarth Embeddings through Tri-Modal Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2608.29553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geospatial foundation models such as the AlphaEarth Foundation produce compact and globally consistent representations of the Earth's surface that trans

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

ButterMamba: Butterworth-Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Mamba for Efficient Traffic Flow Prediction

arXiv:2608.29658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate traffic flow prediction is fundamental to intelligent transportation systems, playing a pivotal role in urban mobility optimization and smart

Hardware

Diffusion-Based Refinement for Kilometer-Scale Probabilistic Precipitation Nowcasting

arXiv:2608.30205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Localized extreme precipitation is a major trigger of urban flash floods and landslides, yet producing nowcasts that combine fine spatial detail with pr

hardwarearxiv-cs-lg

PermitGPT: A Unified Generative-AI Pipeline for Construction Hazard Forecasting, Permit Prediction, and Community Impact

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2608.28728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban construction governance requires early decisions that connect workplace safety, permitting requirements, and community impact, yet the relevant ev

Depth-Aware Pothole Detection Using YOLO and RT-DETR at the Edge

arXiv:2608.27633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pothole detection and its severity measurement is still an important challenges in urban infrastructure management, where late maintenance directly cont

31 Aug 2026

Toward Equitable Low-Carbon Mobility: Fairness-Aware Demand Prediction for Expanding Bike-Sharing Systems

arXiv:2608.26451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bike-sharing systems are an important component of low-carbon urban mobility, but continued expansion creates challenges in both cold-start prediction a

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

28 Aug 2026

Quantifying geographic domain shift to decouple the geospatial transferability of human mobility flow generation models

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2608.21567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility serves as an essential proxy for understanding social, economic, and environmental dynamics in urban systems. Geospatial transferability,

25 Aug 2026

Tutorials

What Does CLIP Learn for Regional Geolocalization? Probing Visual Cues and Scene Configuration After Adaptation

arXiv:2608.21761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large collections of street-view imagery provide rich visual information about urban environments, but extracting fine-grained geographic information fr

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

25 Aug 2026

MoRAX: Mobility-based Representation Augmentation for Geospatial Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.17848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geospatial Foundation Models (GFMs) are emerging as a powerful paradigm for learning semantically rich and geographically consistent visual and physical

19 Aug 2026

Local Ai

Deep Probabilistic Indoor Gas Source Localization via Physical Dependency-Guided Sequential Inference

arXiv:2608.16221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable gas source localization (GSL) is critical to safety in industrial and urban environments, yet remains challenging indoors because walls and obs

local-aiarxiv-cs-ro

How Sampling Strategy Affects Imbalance Mitigation in LiDAR Segmentation: A Study of Structured vs. Random Point-Based Architectures

arXiv:2608.16673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class imbalance in LiDAR point clouds poses challenges for semantic segmentation in autonomous navigation and urban mapping. While 2D vision has numerou

In-Context Learning to Assess Built Environment Impacts on Perceived Neighborhood Walkability Among Mobility-impaired Older Adults

arXiv:2608.14663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As global populations age, enhancing neighborhood walkability through inclusive urban design is important for mitigating built environment (BE) barriers

PersonaDrive: Controllable Trajectory Prediction with Multi-Dimensional Driving Personas

arXiv:2608.15230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although recent trajectory prediction and end-to-end autonomous driving methods improve robustness in urban environments, they still lack meaningful con

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

Robust structure from motion for aerial-ground images via detector-free feature matching and multi-view track refinement

arXiv:2608.15251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrated 3D reconstruction from aerial-ground images is essential for generating high-precision urban 3D models, yet severe variations in viewpoint, s

Deep Reinforcement Learning solution for pickup and delivery routing problems with time window and capacity constraints

arXiv:2608.14156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of constructing vehicles optimal routes for pickup and delivery of goods is one of most promising tasks in the context of global urban populati

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

17 Aug 2026

Smart routes: a system for development and comparison of algorithms for solving vehicle routing problems with realistic constraints

arXiv:2608.14140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem of route optimization with realistic constraints is becoming extremely relevant in the face of global urban population growth. While we are

17 Aug 2026

Air Quality Station Simulation via LSTM and Attention-Based Modelling

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.11839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Poor air quality in urban areas is driven by a complex chain of processes and presents a significant public health concern. To better understand and con

13 Aug 2026

StateFlow: Building, Evolving, and Accessing 3D World States for Previsualization

arXiv:2608.12314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Previsualization is an intermediate layer between ideas and production in film, games, architecture, and urban design. It lets creators iteratively refi

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

13 Aug 2026

Partially Observable Learning for Multi-Platform Dispatch Optimization

arXiv:2608.10897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instant delivery platforms have become a critical component of urban logistics, increasingly relying on crowdsourced couriers to fulfill highly dynamic

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

12 Aug 2026

AirFlow: Context Preserving and Multi-Rate State Modeling for Air Quality Forecasting

arXiv:2608.09775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate air quality forecasting is essential for public health and urban environmental management, but remains challenging because pollutant channels d

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

City Sentinel: A Unified AI-Based Smart Surveillance Framework for Real-Time Multi-Threat Detection Using Deep Learning

arXiv:2608.08887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid urbanization has increased the need for surveillance systems that can monitor multiple public safety risks at the same time. Traditional systems o

HeatCast: A Benchmark for Neighborhood-Scale LST Forecasting across 124 U.S. Cities

arXiv:2608.07640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Land Surface Temperature (LST) is a widely used satellite-derived measure of urban surface heat, but there is no shared benchmark for forecasting it at

Mechanistic Interpretability-Guided Selective Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Centimeter-Level Flood Depth Estimation

arXiv:2608.07562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban flooding poses an escalating threat to transportation infrastructure, yet no operational system provides real-time, street-level flood-depth estim

SeqLoc: Beyond the Single Frame for Cross-View Geo-Localization in Feature-Sparse Scenes

arXiv:2608.07835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) with OpenStreetMap (OSM) performs well in structure-rich urban environments but collapses in feature-sparse scenes su

Tutorials

TS-Mob: Social and Geographical-Aware Time Series Foundation-Model Framework for Human Mobility Prediction

arXiv:2507.00945v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Short-term forecasting of aggregated human mobility flows supports urban planning, intelligent transportation systems, and emergency response, yet e

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

UnsDrive: Towards Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Scenes

arXiv:2608.09098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end planning has shown strong promise for autonomous driving, but most existing methods are designed for structured urban roads and generalize po

MapTCL: Temporal Consistency Learning via Bidirectional Alignment for Vectorized HD Map Construction

arXiv:2608.05209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructing reliable online HD maps remains challenging in dynamic urban environments due to moving objects and occlusions. While recent works employ f

7 Aug 2026

Flying over The Uncertain Nature (FORTUNE): Intelligent and Humanistic 3D Path Planning for Low-Altitude Collaboration

arXiv:2608.03408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of low-altitude intelligent agents is increasing the demand for timely and socially responsible collaborative sensing in dynamic urban

5 Aug 2026

Identifiability-Aware Source Apportionment in City-Scale Advection-Diffusion Systems

arXiv:2608.00050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Source apportionment from sparse urban air-quality sensors is an inverse problem limited by sensor placement, wind-driven transport, background variat

4 Aug 2026

QWRF-Net: A Quantum-Wavelet Framework with Rectified Flow for Short-Term Precipitation Nowcasting

arXiv:2608.01626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-term precipitation nowcasting is important for hydrometeorological early warning, especially when intense convective rainfall may trigger urban fl

4 Aug 2026

Secrets Everywhere: Auditing Memorization in Mobility Prediction Models

arXiv:2608.02052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility prediction models, which forecast the next location in a user's trajectory, are increasingly deployed in urban analytics, navigation, and

4 Aug 2026

AdaAnchor4D: Anchor-Conditioned Spatiotemporal Feature Aggregation for Monocular UAV 4D Reconstruction

arXiv:2607.28320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular UAV videos provide valuable observations for dynamic reconstruction of complex urban scenes. However, such scenes exhibit pronounced spatiotem

researcharxiv-cs-cv

31 Jul 2026

Eliminating Propagation Delay: Attention-Based Spatial-Temporal Fusion Graph Convolution Network for Traffic Flow Prediction

arXiv:2607.24885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting traffic flow is crucial to optimizing transportation systems and improving urban mobility. Many graph convolution-based models have been pr

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

29 Jul 2026

ObliCity: A Benchmark and Baseline for Roof-to-Ground Projection Displacement Correction

arXiv:2607.25210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oblique-view urban remote sensing imagery inevitably exhibits geometric projection displacements between building roofs and footprints, leading to signi

29 Jul 2026

HiLLTS: Zero-Shot Hierarchical LLM-Guided Traffic Signal Control for Sustainable Transportation