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This study addresses the critical challenge of modeling and mapping urban air quality to ascertain pollutant concentrations in unmonitored locations. The advent of low-cost sensors, particularly those deployed in vehicular networks,…

Air pollution kills around 7 million people annually, and approximately 2.4 billion people are exposed to hazardous air pollution. Accurate, fine-grained air quality (AQ) monitoring is essential to control and reduce pollution. However, AQ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Aadesh Desai , Eshan Gujarathi , Saagar Parikh , Sachin Yadav , Zeel Patel , Nipun Batra

Air quality prediction and modelling plays a pivotal role in public health and environment management, for individuals and authorities to make informed decisions. Although traditional data-driven models have shown promise in this domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kethmi Hirushini Hettige , Jiahao Ji , Shili Xiang , Cheng Long , Gao Cong , Jingyuan Wang

Urban air pollution is a major environmental problem affecting human health and quality of life. Monitoring stations have been established to continuously obtain air quality information, but they do not cover all areas. Thus, there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yuya Sasaki , Kei Harada , Shohei Yamasaki , Makoto Onizuka

Urban air pollution hotspots pose significant health risks, yet their detection and analysis remain limited by the sparsity of public sensor networks. This paper addresses this challenge by combining predictive modeling and mechanistic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ankit Bhardwaj , Ananth Balashankar , Shiva Iyer , Nita Soans , Anant Sudarshan , Rohini Pande , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Fine-grained air quality (AQ) mapping is made possible by the proliferation of cheap AQ micro-stations (MSs). However, their measurements are often inaccurate and sensitive to local disturbances, in contrast to standardized stations (SSs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Meng Xu , Ke Han , Weijian Hu , Wen Ji

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

Urban air pollution is a major health crisis causing millions of premature deaths annually, underscoring the urgent need for accurate and scalable monitoring of air quality (AQ). While low-cost sensors (LCS) offer a scalable alternative to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Yahia Dalbah , Marcel Worring , Yen-Chia Hsu

The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent decades. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne particulate matter and ozone has been associated with increases in morbidity and mortality, especially with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Nitish Nag , Vaibhav Pandey , Likhita Navali , Prateek Mohan , Ramesh Jain

A typical problem in air pollution epidemiology is exposure assessment for individuals for which health data are available. Due to the sparsity of monitoring sites and the limited temporal frequency with which measurements of air pollutants…

This paper addresses the critical environmental challenge of estimating ambient Nitrogen Dioxide (NO$_2$) concentrations, a key issue in public health and environmental policy. Existing methods for satellite-based air pollution estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ruben Gonzalez Avilés , Linus Scheibenreif , Damian Borth

Environmental sensors provide crucial data for understanding our surroundings. For example, air quality maps based on sensor readings help users make decisions to mitigate the effects of pollution on their health. Standard maps show…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Annie Preston , Kwan-Liu Ma

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air quality (AQ) monitors, the gold standard for measuring air pollutants, are sparsely positioned across the US due to their costliness. Low-cost sensors (LCS) are increasingly being used by the public…

Air quality forecasting has been regarded as the key problem of air pollution early warning and control management. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning model for air quality (mainly PM2.5) forecasting, which learns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Shengdong Du , Tianrui Li , Yan Yang , Shi-Jinn Horng

Particulate matter pollution is one of the deadliest types of air pollution worldwide due to its significant impacts on the global environment and human health. Particulate Matter (PM2.5) is one of the important particulate pollutants to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Jalpa Shah , Biswajit Mishra

Air pollution has emerged as a major public health challenge in megacities. Numerical simulations and single-site machine learning approaches have been widely applied in air quality forecasting tasks. However, these methods face multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhixin Geng , Xu Fan , Xiqiao Lu , Yan Zhang , Guangyuan Yu , Cheng Huang , Qian Wang , Yuewu Li , Weichun Ma , Qi Yu , Libo Wu , Hao Li

Nowadays air pollution becomes one of the biggest world issues in both developing and developed countries. Helping individuals understand their air pollution exposure and health risks, the traditional way is to utilize data from static…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ke Hu , Ashfaqur Rahman , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili , Vijay Sivaraman

The development of low-cost sensors and novel calibration algorithms offer new opportunities to supplement existing regulatory networks to measure air pollutants at a high spatial resolution and at hourly and sub-hourly timescales. We use a…

Air pollution poses a serious threat to human health as well as economic development around the world. To meet the increasing demand for accurate predictions for air pollutions, we proposed a Deep Inferential Spatial-Temporal Network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Hao Wang , Bojin Zhuang , Yang Chen , Ni Li , Dongxia Wei

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