On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geospatial artificial intelligence

G Mai, W Huang, J Sun, S Song, D Mishra… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

[PDF][PDF] Artificial general intelligence (AGI) for education

E Latif, G Mai, M Nyaaba, X Wu, N Liu, G Lu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - academia.edu
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) has gained global recognition as a future technology due
to the emergence of breakthrough large language models and chatbots such as GPT-4 and …

Csp: Self-supervised contrastive spatial pre-training for geospatial-visual representations

G Mai, N Lao, Y He, J Song… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Geo-tagged images are publicly available in large quantities, whereas labels such as object
classes are rather scarce and expensive to collect. Meanwhile, contrastive learning has …

GeoAI for large-scale image analysis and machine vision: recent progress of artificial intelligence in geography

W Li, CY Hsu - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 - mdpi.com
GeoAI, or geospatial artificial intelligence, has become a trending topic and the frontier for
spatial analytics in Geography. Although much progress has been made in exploring the …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges

M Chen, C Claramunt, A Çöltekin, X Liu, P Peng… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades, we have witnessed great advances on the Internet of Things, mobile
devices, sensor-based systems, and resulting big data infrastructures, which have gradually …

Towards a foundation model for geospatial artificial intelligence (vision paper)

G Mai, C Cundy, K Choi, Y Hu, N Lao… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Large pre-trained models, also known as foundation models (FMs), are trained in a task-
agnostic manner on large-scale data and can be adapted to a wide range of downstream …

Accelerating ethics, empathy, and equity in geographic information science

TA Nelson, MF Goodchild… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Science has traditionally been driven by curiosity and followed one goal: the pursuit of truth
and the advancement of knowledge. Recently, ethics, empathy, and equity, which we term …

[PDF][PDF] Symbolic and subsymbolic GeoAI: Geospatial knowledge graphs and spatially explicit machine learning.

G Mai, Y Hu, S Gao, L Cai, B Martins, J Scholz… - Trans …, 2022 - geography.wisc.edu
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be roughly divided into two branches: Symbolic
Artificial Intelligence and Connectionist Artificial Intelligence (or so-called Subsymbolic AI) …

Explainable GeoAI: can saliency maps help interpret artificial intelligence's learning process? An empirical study on natural feature detection

CY Hsu, W Li - International Journal of Geographical Information …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Improving the interpretability of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) models has become
critically important to open the 'black box'of complex AI models, such as deep learning. This …

Sources of irreproducibility in machine learning: A review

OE Gundersen, K Coakley, C Kirkpatrick… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Background: Many published machine learning studies are irreproducible. Issues with
methodology and not properly accounting for variation introduced by the algorithm …