[HTML][HTML] A review of spatially-explicit GeoAI applications in Urban Geography

P Liu, F Biljecki - International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban Geography studies forms, social fabrics, and economic structures of cities from a
geographic perspective. Catalysed by the increasingly abundant spatial big data, Urban …

A review of location encoding for GeoAI: methods and applications

G Mai, K Janowicz, Y Hu, S Gao, B Yan… - International Journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A common need for artificial intelligence models in the broader geoscience is to
encode various types of spatial data, such as points, polylines, polygons, graphs, or rasters …

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: spatially explicit artificial intelligence techniques for geographic knowledge discovery and beyond

K Janowicz, S Gao, G McKenzie, Y Hu… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Recent progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, the large-scale availability of high-
quality data, as well as advances in both hardware and software to efficiently process these …

Sphere2Vec: A general-purpose location representation learning over a spherical surface for large-scale geospatial predictions

G Mai, Y Xuan, W Zuo, Y He, J Song, S Ermon… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Generating learning-friendly representations for points in space is a fundamental and long-
standing problem in machine learning. Recently, multi-scale encoding schemes (such as …

Multi-scale representation learning for spatial feature distributions using grid cells

G Mai, K Janowicz, B Yan, R Zhu, L Cai… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Unsupervised text encoding models have recently fueled substantial progress in NLP. The
key idea is to use neural networks to convert words in texts to vector space representations …

TransGCN: Coupling transformation assumptions with graph convolutional networks for link prediction

L Cai, B Yan, G Mai, K Janowicz, R Zhu - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Link prediction is an important and frequently studied task that contributes to an
understanding of the structure of knowledge graphs (KGs) in statistical relational learning …

SE‐KGE: A location‐aware Knowledge Graph Embedding model for Geographic Question Answering and Spatial Semantic Lifting

G Mai, K Janowicz, L Cai, R Zhu, B Regalia… - Transactions in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Learning knowledge graph (KG) embeddings is an emerging technique for a variety of
downstream tasks such as summarization, link prediction, information retrieval, and question …

Towards general-purpose representation learning of polygonal geometries

G Mai, C Jiang, W Sun, R Zhu, Y Xuan, L Cai… - GeoInformatica, 2023 - Springer
Neural network representation learning for spatial data (eg, points, polylines, polygons, and
networks) is a common need for geographic artificial intelligence (GeoAI) problems. In …

Geographic question answering: challenges, uniqueness, classification, and future directions

G Mai, K Janowicz, R Zhu, L Cai… - AGILE: GIScience …, 2021 - agile-giss.copernicus.org
As an important part of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Question Answering (QA) aims at
generating answers to questions phrased in natural language. While there has been …