The massive under-exploitation of inland waterways in Europe north sea region, especially in and around urban environments, provides opportunities for technological innovations. In this talk, Yusong will introduce the on-going INTERREG North Sea Region project AVATAR and the relevant research and development at the Researchlab Autonomous Shipping of Delft University… read more
Social Media Information Sharing for Natural Disaster Response
Social media has become an essential channel for posting disaster-related information, which provides governments and relief agencies real-time data for better disaster management. However, research in this field has not received sufficient attention, and extracting useful information is still challenging. The work will be presented aims to improve disaster relief… read more
Privacy Challenges in Smart Home Computer Vision
Smart surveillance or smart home cameras, such as Amazon Echo and Nest Cam, are now found in millions of locations to remotely link users to their homes or offices, providing monitoring services to enhance security and/or notify environment changes, as well as lifelogging and intelligent services. Such a prevalence of… read more
Countering Misinformation and Disinformation
Older adults are especially vulnerable to believing and circulating disinformation online, and we want to enable this population to use social media more responsibly. We aim to do that in three ways. First, our research will investigate what kinds of disinformation is most widely believed by older adults – what… read more
Data Assimilation for Flood Real Time Estimation: Challenges and Methods
Flash floods are one of the most common natural disasters worldwide, causing thousands of casualties every year. A combination of fixed and mobile sensors can be used to track these events. In particular, the emergence of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) could enable the monitoring of floods over large geographical areas.… read more
Quantifying and Mitigating Sources of Bias in AI Decision-Support Systems
AI technologies have transformed optimization and automation in complex decision-making settings, and have created a new paradigm for the role of AI in smart cities. These technologies are increasingly utilized in critical social, urban, and mobility systems to perform or inform resource allocation and urban planning tasks. Therefore, it is… read more
Smarter Cities in the AWS Cloud
Smart cities around the world are collecting and using data to make decisions in real or near real-time to better serve citizens, protect our environment, and lower costs. Most smart city solutions rely on a combination of core technologies (compute, storage, databases, and data warehouses) and advanced technologies (big data… read more
Cameras, AI, and Public Values in Smart Cities
This project investigates comparative policies around the creation and use of video data in the public sector. As more cities deploy monitoring and sensing technologies, cameras are in the front lines of data-gathering in traffic, policing, and health and safety. However, there are no commonly accepted standards for using the… read more
Austin AI Housing Analysis – Open Data Repository-Interactive Website
We have created a website for Austin AI Housing Analysis. All the maps are interactive on this website. Team Members: Junfeng Jiao (Principal Investigator, Architecture), Weijia Xu (Texas Advanced Computing Center), Michelle Addington (Architecture), Ming Zhang (Architecture), Jake Wegmann (Architecture), Katie Pierce Meyer (University of Texas Libraries), Hao Zhu (Electrical… read more
Household Online Shopping Demand in the U.S.: A Machine Learning Approach and Comparative Investigation between 2009 and 2017
We leverage unique features from the two latest releases of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data and a machine learning approach to predict household-level online shopping purchases in the US. The modeling and investigation are performed at the national level and for three of the largest cities (New York,… read more