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Given significant air pollution problems, air quality index (AQI) monitoring has recently received increasing attention. In this paper, we design a mobile AQI monitoring system boarded on unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAVs), called ARMS, to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-09 Yuzhe Yang , Zijie Zheng , Kaigui Bian , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han

Monitoring real-time air quality is essential for safeguarding public health and fostering social progress. However, the widespread deployment of air quality monitoring stations is constrained by their significant costs. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Qiongyan Wang , Yutong Xia , Siru ZHong , Weichuang Li , Yuankai Wu , Shifen Cheng , Junbo Zhang , Yu Zheng , Yuxuan Liang

Data collection in economically constrained countries often necessitates using approximate and biased measurements due to the low-cost of the sensors used. This leads to potentially invalid predictions and poor policies or decision making.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Michael T. Smith , Joel Ssematimba , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Engineer Bainomugisha

The increasingly populated cities of the 21st Century face the challenge of being sustainable and resilient spaces for their inhabitants. However, climate change, among other problems, makes these objectives difficult to achieve. The Urban…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Iñigo Delgado-Enales , Joshua Lizundia-Loiola , Patricia Molina-Costa , Javier Del Ser

Monitoring urban air quality with high spatiotemporal resolution continues to pose significant challenges. We investigate the use of taxi fleets as mobile sensing platforms, analyzing over 100 million PM2.5 readings from more than 3,000…

Poor air quality has become an increasingly critical challenge for many metropolitan cities, which carries many catastrophicphysical and mental consequences on human health and quality of life. However, accurately monitoring and forecasting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Qi Zhang , Jacqueline CK Lam , Victor OK Li , Yang Han

The prevalence and mobility of smartphones make these a widely used tool for environmental health research. However, their potential for determining aggregated air quality index (AQI) based on PM2.5 concentration in specific locations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Joyanta Jyoti Mondal , Md. Farhadul Islam , Raima Islam , Nowsin Kabir Rhidi , Sarfaraz Newaz , Meem Arafat Manab , A. B. M. Alim Al Islam , Jannatun Noor

Air pollution remains a major global issue that seriously impacts public health, environmental quality, and ultimately human health. To help monitor problem, we have created and constructed a low-cost, real-time, portable air quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 S M Minhazur Rahman , Md. Amrin Ibna Hasnath , Rifatul Islam , Ahmed Faizul Haque Dhrubo , Mohammad Abdul Qayum

Urban pollution poses serious health risks, particularly in relation to traffic-related air pollution, which remains a major concern in many cities. Vehicle emissions contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular issues, especially for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sen Yan , David J. O'Connor , Xiaojun Wang , Noel E. O'Connor , Alan F. Smeaton , Mingming Liu

Urbanization enables economic growth but also harms the environment through degradation. Traditional methods of detecting environmental issues have proven inefficient. Machine learning has emerged as a promising tool for tracking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Anirudh Mazumder , Sarthak Engala , Aditya Nallaparaju

Air quality impacts people's health and daily life, affects the sensitive ecosystems, and even restrains a country's development. By collecting and processing the time series data of Air Quality Index (AQI) of 363 cities of China from Jan.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-24 Wenjun Zhang , Zhanpeng Guan , Jianyao Li , Zhu Su , Weibing Deng , Wei Li

Air quality forecasting has garnered significant attention recently, with data-driven models taking center stage due to advancements in machine learning and deep learning models. However, researchers face challenges with complex data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Jingwei Zuo , Wenbin Li , Michele Baldo , Hakim Hacid

Our research presents a comprehensive approach to leveraging mobile camera image data for real-time air quality assessment and recommendation. We develop a regression-based Convolutional Neural Network model and tailor it explicitly for air…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Pritisha Sarkar , Duranta Durbaar Vishal Saha , Mousumi Saha

Air pollution is a chronic problem in large cities worldwide and awareness is rising as the long-term health implications become clearer. Vehicular traffic has been identified as a major contributor to poor air quality. In a lot of cities…

Accurate and timely air quality and weather predictions are of great importance to urban governance and human livelihood. Though many efforts have been made for air quality or weather prediction, most of them simply employ one another as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jindong Han , Hao Liu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong , Dejing Dou

Air quality prediction is key to mitigating health impacts and guiding decisions, yet existing models tend to focus on temporal trends while overlooking spatial generalization. We propose AQ-Net, a spatiotemporal reanalysis model for both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ammar Kheder , Benjamin Foreback , Lili Wang , Zhi-Song Liu , Michael Boy

The level of air quality in urban centres is affected by emission of several pollutants, mainly coming from the vehicles flowing in their road networks. This is a well known phenomenon that influences the quality of life of people. Despite…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-02 P. Ferrante , D. Lo Bosco , S. Nicolosi , G. Scaccianoce , M. Traverso , G. Rizzo

Air pollution, particularly particulate matter (PM2.5), poses significant risks to public health and the environment, necessitating accurate prediction and continuous monitoring for effective air quality management. However, air quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yohan Choi , Boaz Choi , Jachin Choi

Accurately forecasting air quality is critical to protecting general public from lung and heart diseases. This is a challenging task due to the complicated interactions among distinct pollution sources and various other influencing factors.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ling Chen , Jiahui Xu , Binqing Wu , Mingqi Lv , Chaoqun Zhan , Sanjian Chen , Jian Chang

Air pollution is a worldwide issue that affects the lives of many people in urban areas. It is considered that the air pollution may lead to heart and lung diseases. A careful and timely forecast of the air quality could help to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Iryna Talamanova , Sabri Pllana