Knowledge catalogue
arXiv:2605.09936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Urban-ImageNet, a large-scale multi-modal dataset and evaluation benchmark for urban space perception from user-generated social media imager
arXiv:2605.30714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban villages, the widespread informal settlements which have emerged as a result of rapid urbanization, are now major residential hubs for migrant wor
arXiv:2610.00031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Street-view imagery is increasingly used to infer urban attributes, but predictive accuracy alone does not reveal how much a photograph contributes beyo
arXiv:2510.23576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Urban micromobility applications, such as delivery robots, demand reliable navigation across large-scale urban environments while following lo
arXiv:2610.01861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language descriptions can provide rich semantic representations of audio-visual urban scenes, yet datasets that jointly describe both auditory a
arXiv:2608.16310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residents' perception of the urban streetscape is an important factor in public health, active mobility, and social wellbeing. Street view imagery (SVI)
arXiv:2608.14570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding human mobility is critical for a wide range of urban applications, including traffic management, epidemic control, and urban planning. How
arXiv:2606.11534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban heat is amplified by impermeable surfaces and heterogeneous built environments, yet street-level variability remains difficult to quantify becau
arXiv:2605.26036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban representation learning encodes complex urban environments into general-purpose embeddings for diverse downstream tasks and emerging urban foundat
arXiv:2601.05483v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding urban environment change is essential for sustainable development. However, current approaches, particularly remote sensing change det
arXiv:2605.00764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban perception describes how people subjectively evaluate urban environments, shaping how cities are experienced and understood. Existing computationa
arXiv:2605.29856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As a widespread form of informal settlements, urban villages present significant challenges for sustainable urban development and governance. Precise ma
arXiv:2605.24700v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creating relightable urban scenes from images or videos is widely useful but highly ill-posed. Urban environments are typically unbounded and extend
arXiv:2604.23066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban flooding affects lives and infrastructure worldwide. Mapping inundation in complex urban environments from satellite imagery remains challenging d
arXiv:2608.03018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern cities rely on an increasing number of digital services to operate, but residents' daily needs are still difficult to meet. Services are fragment
arXiv:2607.13558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban region profiling constitutes a core problem in urban computing, supporting applications such as population estimation, economic assessment, and en
arXiv:2610.10430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid and accurate prediction of urban wind and temperature fields is important for urban microclimate design and climate adaptation. Large-eddy simul
arXiv:2609.19631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate instance-level and functional understanding of urban buildings in large-scale point clouds is essential for digital city modeling and urban ana
arXiv:2608.01753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Addressing urban blight has seen increased focus in the past 15 years. Assessing urban blight is essential for guiding urban planning, targeting rehabil
arXiv:2608.00257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated visual monitoring of urban environments is a growing Computer Vision research area, but municipal solid waste detection remains under-represen
arXiv:2610.07033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting transient urban winds is fundamental to understanding urban microclimates and designing climate-resilient cities. Building-resolving large-ed
arXiv:2609.36056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In urban low-altitude flight, buildings reshape ambient wind into spatially varying 3D flow, making unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) energy depend on local
arXiv:2608.20149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article explores the performance of analytical and neural-based hillshading methods in a dense urban environment using high-resolution digital elev
arXiv:2607.26724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have been widely applied in automating data science tasks. However, existing methods typically rely on a limited set o
arXiv:2607.20263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Housing-level urban physical examination is essential for identifying residential building problems and supporting targeted urban renewal. Existing auto
arXiv:2607.08554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For urban managers and designers, improving the functional attributes of urban communities to enhance territorial resilience in the face of complexity a
Researchers have identified three key vital signs of urban pulse: urbanization is spiky (development occurs in intense bursts rather than smoothly), cyclical (neighborhoods go through boom-and-rest cy
arXiv:2606.07708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a dataset and benchmark for cross-view urban traffic perception built from synchronized ego-centric bicycle videos and aerial drone video
arXiv:2505.11809v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visibility analysis in urban planning has traditionally relied on line-of-sight (LoS) simulations, which capture geometric occlusion. However, these
arXiv:2605.02959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Calibrating the urban underlying surface parameters is crucial for urban flood simulation. We formulate the parameter calibration problem into an optimi
arXiv:2604.13028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to thermal extremes driven by rapid urbanization and climate change. Traditionally, thermal extremes have been m
AD2-Bench diagnoses multimodal reasoning via a Chain of Evidence, showing failures from spatial ambiguity and semantic uncertainty in adverse urban scenes.
arXiv:2609.40212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study compared classifiers that differentiate between urbanized and non-urbanized areas based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-acquired RGB imagery
arXiv:2506.00214v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid urbanization demands efficient monitoring of turbulent wind and pollutant dispersion, yet existing reconstruction and sensor placement s
arXiv:2609.19010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban Land Cover (ULC) classification plays a crucial role in urban planning, environmental monitoring, and sustainable development. We study this tas
arXiv:2608.24133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: People search for urban outdoor places not only by category or function, but also by what activities a place can support and how it is perceived. Exis
arXiv:2608.23857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban heat islands (UHIs) are intensifying under climate change, exacerbating thermal exposure risks. Their two primary observations, land surface tempe
arXiv:2608.18546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal urban data has expanded the applications of urban region representation learning, such as functional zone identification and real estate appr
arXiv:2608.08814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present 360CityArena, a benchmark for evaluating the urban exploration capabilities of embodied agents within a photorealistic environment construc
arXiv:2411.00028v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Socioeconomic prediction aims to leverage various urban data to predict the socioeconomic indicators of regions such as population and commerc
arXiv:2505.02271v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The proliferation of Generative Artificial Ingelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models, presents transformative opportunities for urban appl
arXiv:2607.23989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable wireless connectivity is essential for urban air mobility (UAM) networks in dense urban environments. It is therefore imperative to carefully p
arXiv:2607.22613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper explores the intersection of memory, place, and identity, examining how new technologies, particularly Apple Vision Pro, can illuminate thi
arXiv:2511.11470v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D urban generation from satellite imagery is an important task for scalable digital twins and real-world simulation environments. Existing approach
arXiv:2607.02560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pedestrian-level wind prediction is essential for urban design and wind-comfort assessment, but high-fidelity simulations such as LES remain computation
arXiv:2606.15198v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: City landscapes viewed through home windows influence quality of life, yet perceptions of actual window views at the urban scale remain understudied
arXiv:2606.02592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban nitrogen dioxide (NO_2) is a key indicator of combustion-related air pollution and exhibits strong spatial and temporal variability in cities. T
arXiv:2605.21311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern vision systems can detect, track, and forecast urban actors at scale, yet translating perception outputs to urban design remains limited. We intr
arXiv:2509.14839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: City administrations increasingly rely on comprehensive databases and urban digital twins of city assets, such as traffic signs and trees, as well a
arXiv:2604.22433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heat exposure connects the built environment and public health, directly shaping the livability and sustainability of urban areas. Understanding the spa
arXiv:2408.02786v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The realization of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) necessitates scalable global path planning algorithms capable of ensuring safe navigation within complex
arXiv:2609.15305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban region representation learning commonly combines heterogeneous data sources, such as mobility flows, points of interest, and land-use informatio
arXiv:2603.05581v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Urban traffic flow is governed by the complex, nonlinear interaction between land use configuration and spatiotemporally heterogeneous mobility dema
arXiv:2609.08268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban region embeddings have shown promising results in diverse urban sensing tasks such as crime, income, and service-call prediction. Recent methods i
arXiv:2510.15869v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthesizing large-scale, explorable, and geometrically accurate 3D urban scenes is a challenging yet valuable task for immersive and embodied appli
arXiv:2609.03804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communities are fundamental spatial units that shape urban form and social life. Whether a residential compound is spatially open or enclosed affects mo
arXiv:2609.00649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models are increasingly used to measure urban change from repeated street-level imagery, but their longitudinal reliability is not well
arXiv:2608.16897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale urban simulation plays a pivotal role in social science, traffic safety, and transportation policy. Recent work has shown that large langu
arXiv:2510.22282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Urban socio-economic sensing plays a vital role in advancing global sustainable development goals. With the advent of Large Vision-Language Mo
arXiv:2608.05879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-driven 3D generation has advanced rapidly in creating large-scale outdoor environments and detailed indoor scenes, but these domains are usually sy