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Although generative AI has been successful in many areas, its ability to model geospatial data is still underexplored. Urban flow, a typical kind of geospatial data, is critical for a wide range of urban applications. Existing studies…

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Mapping large origin-destination (OD) datasets remains challenging because flow maps become cluttered, meaningful patterns occur at multiple spatial scales, and existing flow-mapping approaches frequently rely on predefined aggregation…

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Understanding individual-level human mobility is critical for a wide range of applications. As such, real-world trajectory datasets provide valuable insights into actual movement behaviors and patterns of life but are often constrained by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Hossein Amiri , Joon-Seok Kim , Hamdi Kavak , Andrew Crooks , Dieter Pfoser , Carola Wenk , Andreas Züfle

Accurate and up-to-date geospatial data are essential for urban planning, infrastructure monitoring, and environmental management. Yet, automating urban monitoring remains difficult because curated datasets of specific urban features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Amir Ziashahabi , Narges Ghasemi , Sajjad Shahabi , John Krumm , Salman Avestimehr , Cyrus Shahabi

Traffic simulations, essential for planning urban transit infrastructure interventions, require vehicle-category-specific origin-destination (OD) data. Existing data sources are imperfect: sparse tollbooth sensors provide accurate vehicle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Shaira Tabassum

Generative AI offers new opportunities for automating urban planning by creating site-specific urban layouts and enabling flexible design exploration. However, existing approaches often struggle to produce realistic and practical designs at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qingyi Wang , Yuebing Liang , Yunhan Zheng , Kaiyuan Xu , Jinhua Zhao , Shenhao Wang

Urban development has been a defining force in human history, shaping cities for centuries. However, past studies mostly analyze such development as predictive tasks, failing to reflect its generative nature. Therefore, this study designs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kailai Sun , Yuebing Liang , Mingyi He , Yunhan Zheng , Alok Prakash , Shenhao Wang , Jinhua Zhao , Alex "Sandy'' Pentland

Estimating Origin-Destination (OD) travel demand is vital for effective urban planning and traffic management. Developing universally applicable OD estimation methodologies is significantly challenged by the pervasive scarcity of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Chao Zhang , Neha Arora , Christopher Bian , Yechen Li , Willa Ng , Andrew Tomkins , Bin Yan , Janny Zhang , Carolina Osorio

Estimating dynamic Origin-Destination (OD) traffic flow is crucial for understanding traffic patterns and the traffic network. While dynamic origin-destination estimation (DODE) has been studied for decades as a useful tool for estimating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Han Yu , Suyanpeng Zhang , Sze-chuan Suen , Maged Dessouky , Fernando Ordonez

In response to the soaring needs of human mobility data, especially during disaster events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated big data challenges, we develop a scalable online platform for extracting, analyzing, and sharing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Zhenlong Li , Xiao Huang , Tao Hu , Huan Ning , Xinyue Ye , Xiaoming Li

Analyzing flow of objects or data at different granularities of space and time can unveil interesting insights or trends. For example, transportation companies, by aggregating passenger travel data (e.g., counting passengers traveling from…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Ben Kao

Analyzing origin-destination flows is an important problem that has been extensively investigated in several scientific fields, particularly by the visualization community. The problem becomes especially challenging when involving massive…

Recent advancements in generative models have enabled 3D urban scene generation from satellite imagery, unlocking promising applications in gaming, digital twins, and beyond. However, most existing methods rely heavily on neural rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Tongyan Hua , Lutao Jiang , Ying-Cong Chen , Wufan Zhao

Understanding and predicting Origin-Destination (OD) flows is crucial for urban planning and transportation management. Traditional OD prediction models, while effective within single cities, often face limitations when applied across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Chenyang Yu , Xinpeng Xie , Yan Huang , Chenxi Qiu

The increasingly crucial role of human displacements in complex societal phenomena, such as traffic congestion, segregation, and the diffusion of epidemics, is attracting the interest of scientists from several disciplines. In this article,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Giovanni Mauro , Massimiliano Luca , Antonio Longa , Bruno Lepri , Luca Pappalardo

Distribution-level studies increasingly require feeder models that are both electrically usable and structurally representative of practical service areas. However, detailed utility feeder data are rarely accessible, while benchmark systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yunqi Wang , Xinghuo Yu , Mahdi Jalili

This study develops FusionTransNet, a framework designed for Origin-Destination (OD) flow predictions within smart and multimodal urban transportation systems. Urban transportation complexity arises from the spatiotemporal interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Binwu Wang , Yan Leng , Guang Wang , Yang Wang

This study proposes a flexible and scalable single-level framework for origin-destination matrix (ODM) inference using data from IoT (Internet of Things) and other sources. The framework allows the analyst to integrate information from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-21 Wei Sun , Akshay Vij , Nicolas Kaliszewski

Metro Origin-Destination (OD) prediction is a crucial yet challenging spatial-temporal prediction task in urban computing, which aims to accurately forecast cross-station ridership for optimizing metro scheduling and enhancing overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yang Liu , Binglin Chen , Yongsen Zheng , Lechao Cheng , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Network-wide traffic flow, which captures dynamic traffic volume on each link of a general network, is fundamental to smart mobility applications. However, the observed traffic flow from sensors is usually limited across the entire network…

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