The United States spends more than $250 million each year on the American Community
Survey (ACS), a labor-intensive door-to-door study that measures statistics relating to race …

Targeted socio-economic policies require an accurate understanding of a country's
demographic makeup. To that end, the United States spends more than 1 billion dollars a …

A longstanding line of research in urban studies explores how cities can be understood
through their appearance. However, what remains unclear is to what extent urban dwellers' …

Knowing where people live is a fundamental component of many decision making
processes such as urban development, infectious disease containment, evacuation …

Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of
environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially …

It is crucial that image datasets for computer vision are representative and contain accurate
demographic information to ensure their robustness and fairness, especially for smaller …

Street-level imagery has covered the comprehensive landscape of urban areas. Compared
to satellite imagery, this new source of image data has the advantage in fine-grained …

Nowadays, various data collected in urban context provide unprecedented opportunities for
building a smarter city through urban computing. However, due to heterogeneity, high …

When an individual purchases a home, they simultaneously purchase its structural features,
its accessibility to work, and the neighborhood amenities. Some amenities, such as air …

Various research applications require detailed metrics to describe the form and composition
of cities at fine scales, but the parameter computation remains a challenge due to limited …