Enhancing urban real-time PM2. 5 monitoring in street canyons by machine learning and computer vision technology

Z Fan, Y Zhao, B Hu, L Wang, Y Guo, Z Tang… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
During peak hours, both pedestrians and drivers face extended exposure to road air
pollution, raising the risk of respiratory diseases. Variations in traffic volume, building …

Assessment of long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution: An exposure framework

AP Patton, H Boogaard, D Vienneau… - Journal of Exposure …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with morbidity and mortality,
making it an important public health concern. Emissions from motorized traffic are a common …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting spatial variations in annual average outdoor ultrafine particle concentrations in Montreal and Toronto, Canada: Integrating land use regression and …

M Lloyd, A Ganji, J Xu, A Venuta, L Simon… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Concentrations of outdoor ultrafine particles (UFP;< 0.1 µm) and black carbon
(BC) can vary greatly within cities and long-term exposures to these pollutants have been …

[HTML][HTML] Unmasking air quality: A novel image-based approach to align public perception with pollution levels

TC Lin, SY Wang, ZY Kung, YH Su, PT Chiueh… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the quest to reconcile public perception of air pollution with scientific measurements, our
study introduced a pioneering method involving a gradient boost-regression tree model …

Methods for quantifying source‐specific air pollution exposure to serve epidemiology, risk assessment, and environmental justice

X Shan, JA Casey, JA Shearston, LRF Henneman - GeoHealth, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying sources of air pollution exposure is crucial for addressing their health impacts
and associated inequities. Researchers have developed modeling approaches to resolve …

[HTML][HTML] Long-Term Exposure to Outdoor Ultrafine Particles and Black Carbon and Effects on Mortality in Montreal and Toronto, Canada

S Weichenthal, M Lloyd, A Ganji… - Research Reports …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND There remain important limitations and challenges when estimating long-
term air pollution exposure for use in epidemiological studies. In 2019, the Health Effects …

Urban air-quality estimation using visual cues and a deep convolutional neural network in bengaluru (bangalore), india

A Feldman, S Kendler, J Marshall… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mobile monitoring provides robust measurements of air pollution. However, resource
constraints often limit the number of measurements so that assessments cannot be obtained …

Spatial and spatiotemporal modelling of intra-urban ultrafine particles: A comparison of linear, nonlinear, regularized, and machine learning methods

J Vachon, S Buteau, Y Liu, K Van Ryswyk… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Machine learning methods are proposed to improve the predictions of ambient
air pollution, yet few studies have compared ultrafine particles (UFP) models across a broad …

An attention-based CNN model integrating observational and simulation data for high-resolution spatial estimation of urban air quality

S Wang, Y Zhang - Atmospheric Environment, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning, especially deep learning, can outperform traditional atmospheric
models in air quality assessment, offering enhanced efficiency and accuracy without relying …

Adapting public annotated data sets and low-quality dash cameras for spatiotemporal estimation of traffic-related air pollution: A transfer-learning approach

YH Fei, TC Hsiao, AY Chen - Journal of Computing in Civil …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
This study investigated the utilization of images collected from low-quality dash cameras on
passenger vehicles for the estimation of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP). We conducted …