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 …

On the opportunities and challenges of foundation models for geoai (vision paper)

G Mai, W Huang, J Sun, S Song, D Mishra… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - 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 …

Project sidewalk: A web-based crowdsourcing tool for collecting sidewalk accessibility data at scale

M Saha, M Saugstad, HT Maddali, A Zeng… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We introduce Project Sidewalk, a new web-based tool that enables online crowdworkers to
remotely label pedestrian-related accessibility problems by virtually walking through city …

Associations between street-view perceptions and housing prices: Subjective vs. objective measures using computer vision and machine learning techniques

X Xu, W Qiu, W Li, X Liu, Z Zhang, X Li, D Luo - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the extent to which subjectively and objectively measured street-
level perceptions complement or conflict with each other in explaining property value. Street …

Subjective and objective measures of streetscape perceptions: Relationships with property value in Shanghai

W Qiu, W Li, X Liu, Z Zhang, X Li, X Huang - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, housing prices studies emerged to use street view imagery to infer the marginal
price of streetscape using hedonic price models (HPM). Within this trend, most studies took …

Context understanding in computer vision: A survey

X Wang, Z Zhu - Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2023 - Elsevier
Contextual information plays an important role in many computer vision tasks, such as object
detection, video action detection, image classification, etc. Recognizing a single object or …

A network-level sidewalk inventory method using mobile LiDAR and deep learning

Q Hou, C Ai - Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 2020 - Elsevier
Sidewalks are a critical infrastructure to facilitate essential daily trips for pedestrian and
wheelchair users. The dependence on the infrastructure and the increasing demand from …

Crowdsourcing in ITS: The state of the work and the networking

X Wang, X Zheng, Q Zhang, T Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decade, crowdsourcing has emerged as a novel mechanism for accomplishing
temporal and spatial critical tasks in transportation with the collective intelligence of …

Opportunities for human-AI collaboration in remote sighted assistance

S Lee, R Yu, J **e, SM Billah, JM Carroll - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational assistive technology for
people with visual impairments (VI), where remote sighted agents provide realtime …

Deep learning for automatically detecting sidewalk accessibility problems using streetscape imagery

G Weld, E Jang, A Li, A Zeng, K Heimerl… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recent work has applied machine learning methods to automatically find and/or assess
pedestrian infrastructure in online map imagery (eg, satellite photos, streetscape …