Survey on leveraging pre-trained generative adversarial networks for image editing and restoration

M Liu, Y Wei, X Wu, W Zuo, L Zhang - Science China Information Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn enormous attention due to their simple
yet effective training mechanism and superior image generation quality. With the ability to …

Urban visual intelligence: Uncovering hidden city profiles with street view images

Z Fan, F Zhang, BPY Loo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
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' …

Assessing impacts of objective features and subjective perceptions of street environment on running amount: A case study of Boston

L Dong, H Jiang, W Li, B Qiu, H Wang, W Qiu - Landscape and urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
The built environment is found to relate to running behaviors. However, the impacts of the
street environment on running were less addressed due to the lack of running data in large …

Revealing spatio-temporal evolution of urban visual environments with street view imagery

X Liang, T Zhao, F Biljecki - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
The visual landscape plays a pivotal role in urban planning and healthy cities. Recent
studies of visual evaluation focus on either objective or subjective approach, while …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing gender differences in the perceived safety from street view imagery

Q Cui, Y Zhang, G Yang, Y Huang, Y Chen - International Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
The relationship between the built environment and human perception of safety is well
recognised in a growing literature of urban studies. However, there is a lack of attention to …

Sensing urban soundscapes from street view imagery

T Zhao, X Liang, W Tu, Z Huang, F Biljecki - Computers, Environment and …, 2023 - Elsevier
A healthy acoustic environment is an essential component of sustainable cities. Various
noise monitoring and simulation techniques have been developed to measure and evaluate …

Measuring the associations between eye-level urban design quality and on-street crime density around New York subway entrances

N Su, W Li, W Qiu - Habitat International, 2023 - Elsevier
The relationship between crimes, fear of crimes, and the physical environments of metro
stations are interlocked. They ultimately influence metro safety and ridership, which are …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring streetscape perceptions from driveways and sidewalks to inform pedestrian-oriented street renewal in Düsseldorf

J Rui - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
The measurement of urban streetscape quality facilitates the identification of street
regeneration. The emerging Street View image and semantic segmentation techniques have …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers or pedestrians, whose dynamic perceptions are more effective to explain street vitality? A case study in Guangzhou

Y Wang, W Qiu, Q Jiang, W Li, T Ji, L Dong - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
As an important indicator of urban development capacity, vitality can be affected by the
human perception of street views, which is a dynamic sensory process that can differ greatly …

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 …