{"title":"Who are my Visitors and Where do They Come From? An Analysis Based on Foursquare Check-ins and Place-based Semantics","authors":"P. Hallot, K. Stewart, R. Billen","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20151350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20151350","url":null,"abstract":"Activity recommendation systems aims at providing relevant information depending on targeted users' groups. For instance in a city, it makes sense to differentiate local residents from tourists. This research investigates to what extent the anonymized data collected from social networks can be used as a basis for making activity recommendations associated with local residents versus tourists when visiting a public place, such as a museum or gallery. Using rules based on the spatial, temporal and semantics of visited places, we are able to infer if a user is likely to be local or a tourist, based on anonymous sample Foursquare data and place-based semantics retrieved using Google Places API. Using semantics of visited places, it becomes possible to infer additional information about a user based on their movements over space and time. Depending on the kind and frequency of visited places, inferences about the aim of a visit to a location are possible. This analysis could provide information to users in the form of recommendations based on their movements while travelling around an area. This study has been performed using Foursquare check-ins for visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago between March 2010 and January 2011.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122504222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceptualizing, Managing and Developing: A Web Based 3D City Information Model for Urban Energy Demand Simulation","authors":"R. Padsala, V. Coors","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20151347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20151347","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe a concept to manage and develop a web based virtual 3D scene, based on CityGML LoD 2 models, DTM tiles, ortho-photos and energy simulation results of specific heating demand and photovoltaic potential generated from SimStadt simulation platform, by integrating it on ESRI 3D City Information Model (3DCIM) platform. The final output results into a web based 3D visualization of multiple layers of building attributes such as building age, building height, building type, building usage and energy simulation results in terms of specific heating demand and PV potential. Additionally 3D modelling of trees and waterbody were produced based on its location to visually enrich the final virtual 3D scene.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128199544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visibility Analysis in a Point Cloud Based on the Medial Axis Transform","authors":"R. Peters, H. Ledoux, F. Biljecki","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20151342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20151342","url":null,"abstract":"Visibility analysis is an important application of 3D GIS data. Current approaches require 3D city models that are often derived from detailed aerial point clouds. We present an approach to visibility analysis that does not require a city model but works directly on the point cloud. Our approach is based on the medial axis transform, which models the urban environment as a union of balls, which we then use to construct a depthmap that is used for point visibility queries. As we demonstrate through our experiments on a real-world aerial LiDAR point cloud, the main benefits of our approach are 1) it is robust to noise, irregular sampling and holes of typical aerial LiDAR datasets, 2) it gives visibility results that are significantly more accurate than the often highly generalised city models, and 3) it is a simple algorithm that is easy to parallelise.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115827028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5D Multi-Purpose Land Information System","authors":"C. Ioannidis, S. Verykokou, S. Soile, C. Potsiou","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20151344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20151344","url":null,"abstract":"The complexity of modern urban environments has led to the introduction of 3D Land Information Systems (LISs), which tend to replace traditional 2D LIS architectures for the purposes of urban planning and regeneration, land administration, real estate management and civil development. Both the need for 3D visualization of the geometry of buildings in various time instances through the years and the need for acquisition of 3D models in various levels of detail (LoDs), which not only fulfill the requirements of the various users but also they speed up the visualization process, are obvious. Thus, additional dimensions, that is, for time and scale, need to be supported by a modern LIS. This paper introduces a 5D modelling pipeline that may be adopted by a multi-purpose LIS for the selective creation of 3D models of an urban area in various time instances and at various LoDs, enriched with cadastral and other spatial data. The methodology is based on automatic change detection algorithms for spatial-temporal analysis of the spatial changes that took place in subsequent time periods, using image orientation, dense image matching and structure from motion algorithms; the procedure requires photogrammetric stereo plotting, implements procedural modelling and relies on the availability of overlapping aerial and terrestrial imagery, ground control points and cadastral information. Finally, an application based on the proposed methodology in an urban area in Greece is presented and the future work is discussed.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"&NA; 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125991720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Acquisition of Human Emotions in Space and Time","authors":"Julius Schöning, Corinna E. Bonhage","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20151349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20151349","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion assessments traditionally take place in academic or medical settings. The impact of environmental factors such as e.g. the characteristics of the place, the weather, or the time of day on the emotional state of inhabitants are often dismissed, thus emotions as a dynamic feature cannot be used for city planning or development. To estimate emotions as spatio-temporal data, a growing research community focused on emotion extraction from social network platforms such as Twitter or Facebook. The quality and the reliability of the resulting emotion evaluations are not comparable to direct emotion assessments, e.g. because of possible biases of emotional statements in social communities. In order to bridge this gap, we designed a web-based survey service that allows for the acquisition of geo-located emotion ratings of a huge group of participants in real-world environments, which in turn can be related to numerous environmental variables. In this paper, we present the architecture of this web-based service along with first results of a pilot study. In the end, we discuss possible use cases for spatio-temporal emotion data, the limitations of our web-based service, and present an outlook on possible future projects.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123295275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Level-of-detail and Perceptive Effects to 3D Urban Semantics Visualization","authors":"Fan Zhang, V. Tourre, G. Moreau","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20141075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20141075","url":null,"abstract":"Urban environment consists of various types of data, both geometric ones and non-geometric ones, among which urban semantics are important sources for non-geometric data. The modelling and visualization of urban semantics is one type of information visualization (InfoVis). In both 2D and 3D environment, a lot of work has been done, which use different kinds of representation forms to illustrate knowledge and information stored in the original abstract dataset. This paper aims to apply the idea of information level-of-detail (LoD) to urban semantics visualization and a text-based semantic database is built to illustrate how the idea works. Then in the implementation process, four perceptive factors for text visualization are chosen, while we mainly test, compare and analyse text size, aiming to better aid users find new knowledge and make decisions.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131015245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incremental Plane-based Reconstruction and Exploration of Buildings in old Postcards","authors":"Lara Younes, B. Romaniuk, E. Bittar","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20141077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20141077","url":null,"abstract":"We present an approach for 3D reconstruction of a city model over the time from a collection of old postcards of the city of Reims. The planar structure of the buildings facades constraints the dense reconstruction of the city. We use a feature matching technique while proposing the registration of facades in the images and there use for the reasoning about there visibility in the images. This system is semi-automatic, it requires a user control in the complicated case where no matches are found to link an image to the dataset. The image data set is sparse and the urban space evolves over time.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116007488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nahid Mohajeri, Agust Gudmundsson, J. Kämpf, J. Scartezzini
{"title":"Visualizing Street Orientation and Solar Radiation in Relation to Complex Topography","authors":"Nahid Mohajeri, Agust Gudmundsson, J. Kämpf, J. Scartezzini","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20141070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20141070","url":null,"abstract":"Street networks can be visualized in various ways depending on the purpose. Here we introduce (in the present context) a new technique for visualizing the orientation of street networks in relation to complex topography. The technique is tested on the city of Sheffield, England, with a current population of about 555,500 (in 2010) and a total street number of 23,500. Using digital elevation maps and unique historical datasets, we show how the street network of Sheffield has expanded in a complex topographical environment for close to three centuries, that is, since 1736. The results demonstrate how the topography has affected the spatial orientation of the evolving network. We quantify the network geometry through entropy analysis; entropy is a measure of dispersion or spreading. The results show that the orientation entropy of the network has gradually increased with time. In 1736 the network was primarily composed of orthogonal streets, and had comparatively low entropy. As the network expanded the topographical constraints have contributed to the street orientation becoming more uniform on the rose, resulting in increasing entropy. The analysis also shows that the entropy of the central part of the present network is lower than that of the outer and younger parts. The potential solar radiation for Sheffield is also calculated, visualized, and compared with the topography model and the street network density. The results show that the network density (number of streets per unit area) correlates solar radiation; high-density parts of the network tend to coincide with high-intensity solar radiation.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":" 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120830470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topological Reconstruction of Complex 3D Buildings and Automatic Extraction of Levels of Detail","authors":"A. Diakité, G. Damiand, D. V. Maercke","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20141074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20141074","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a new method allowing to retrieve the indoor and outdoor topology of a detailed 3D building model from its geometry and to extract different levels of detail (LoD) from the resulting topological description. No prior information about the initial model, except its geometric information is needed as input, and using the combinatorial maps data structure, the method recovers the topological information of the identified parts of the building. The topology is needed for most of the applications using 3D building models after the architects design it. While classical models available are mainly furnished in a Boundary Representation (B-Rep) format, we discuss how to recover the components that allow to distinguish the several parts of the building (defined as volumes) then the spatial relationships linking them.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125598088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ground Temperature Modelling: The Case Study of Rue des Maraîchers in Geneva","authors":"Govinda Upadhyay, J. Kämpf, J. Scartezzini","doi":"10.2312/udmv.20141072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2312/udmv.20141072","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a methodology to approximate the urban heat island effect by using a PostgreSQL database and CitySim software, a simulation tool to evaluate urban energy flows. A ground temperature model has been developed for shallow depths (until 4m), which reproduces the phenomena of heat transfer into the ground on an hourly basis. This model is further used to predict the outdoor ground surface temperature, which is an indicator of the urban heat island effect. A PostgreSQL database which contains information such as the building footprints, geographical location, address, construction date, energy system etc. of the buildings was modified to include data relative to this model. A case study has been performed in a small neighbourhood, Rue des Maraichers, in Geneva (Switzerland) in order to illustrate the usage of this tool to analyse the surface temperature of asphalted roads and green alleys. Finally, a methodology has been introduced to predict the urban heat island effect using this temperature.","PeriodicalId":161750,"journal":{"name":"Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121331687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}