Abstract Street View Imagery (SVI) is crucial in estimating indicators such as Sky View Factor
(SVF) and Green View Index (GVI), but (1) approaches and terminology differ across fields …

Street view imagery (SVI) is increasingly in competition with traditional remote sensing
sources and assuming its domination in myriads of studies, mainly thanks to the …

Street view imagery (SVI) is instrumental for sensing urban environments, benefitting
numerous domains such as urban morphology, health, greenery, and accessibility. Billions …

Conventional sidewalk studies focused on quantitative analysis of sidewalk walkability at a
large scale which cannot capture the dynamic interactions between the environment and …

A healthy acoustic environment is an essential component of sustainable cities. Various
noise monitoring and simulation techniques have been developed to measure and evaluate …

Visual navigation in unknown environments poses significant challenges due to the
presence of many obstacles and low-texture scenes. These factors may cause frequent …

With ongoing urbanization, high temperatures occur more frequently in urban environments.
The urban heat island (UHI) effect has serious impacts on people's living environment and …

Rapid global economic development, population growth, and increased motorization have
resulted in significant issues in urban traffic safety. This study explores the intrinsic …

The complexity of urban physical environments at road intersections is a primary factor
characterizing the difficulty of wayfinding, which is a fundamental spatial activity of human …

Vision-language models are of interest in various domains, including automated driving,
where computer vision techniques can accurately detect road users, but where the vehicle …