UrbanTrace: LLM-Assisted Discovery and Semantics-Aware Integration of Spatial Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2026), 2026 To appear
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Papers of the OSCUR project, newest first. Journal papers are listed in the year of their issue. Filter them by topic, or find the software behind each paper on the Software page.
2026
ArtScape: Detecting, Characterizing, and Interactively Exploring Urban Art at Scale Using Vision Language Models
Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2026 To appear
LandmarkLens: Predicting and Presenting Effective Landmarks for Mixed-Reality Urban Exploration
Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2026 To appear
Expanding Access to Urban Art at Scale: A Demo of ArtScape
Proceedings of the 28th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2026 To appear
Autark in Action: Building Serverless Prototypes of Urban Visual Analytics Systems
39th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI 2026), Tutorials, 2026
Semantic Data Systems: From Data Management to Data Understanding
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2026
MosaicJoin: Compact Semantic Sketches for Value-Level Join Discovery
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2026
Occlusion-Free Conformal Lensing for Spatiotemporal Visualization in 3D Urban Analytics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VR 2026), 2026
BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
AutoDDG: Automated Dataset Description Generation using Large Language Models
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2026), 2026
A Neural Field-Based Approach for View Computation & Data Exploration in 3D Urban Environments
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026
Urbanite: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Human-AI Interactive Alignment in Urban Visual Analytics
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025), 2026
VA-Blueprint: Uncovering Building Blocks for Visual Analytics System Design
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025), 2026
StreetWeave: A Declarative Grammar for Street-Overlaid Visualization of Multivariate Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025), 2026
TiVy: Time Series Visual Summary for Scalable Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025), 2026
Autark: A Serverless Toolkit for Prototyping Urban Visual Analytics Systems
arXiv preprint, 2026
UrbanClipAtlas: A Visual Analytics Framework for Event and Scene Retrieval in Urban Videos
arXiv preprint, 2026
2025
StreetTransformer: A Large Scale Multimodal Benchmark for Change Detection in Urban Streets
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on UrbanAI: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities, 2025
Street View for Whom? An Initial Examination of Google Street View’s Urban Coverage and Socioeconomic Indicators in the US
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Big Data and AI for Industrial Applications, 2025
StreetTransformer: Precedent Retrieval and Multimodal Fusion with Vision Language Models
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Urban Mobility Foundation Models, 2025
“Where Can I Park?” Understanding Human Perspectives and Scalably Detecting Disability Parking from Aerial Imagery
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2025
RampNet: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Bootstrapping Curb Ramp Detection in Streetscape Images from Open Government Metadata
2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2025
“Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?” Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2025
Hierarchical Table Semantics for Exploratory Table Discovery
Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics, 2025
NightLight: Passively Mapping Nighttime Sidewalk Light Data for Improved Pedestrian Routing
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025
Large Language Models for Data Discovery and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2025
Visual Analysis of Multimodal Sensor Data
Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 2025