News & Updates
- Our work featured on UIC TodayThe past decade has seen a flood of data about cities, information with the potential to make communities cleaner, healthier and more livable. University of Illinois Chicago scientists will play a key role in realizing that potential through a new computing platform they are building for researchers and the public that can be used in… Read more: Our work featured on UIC Today
- OSCUR funded by the National Science Foundation!The Open-Source Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Computing Research (OSCUR) will create a cohesive ecosystem of tools and resources designed to transform city data into actionable knowledge. This multi-institutional collaboration is supported by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, with $1.75 million allocated to UIC. The project includes researchers from UIC’s College of Engineering… Read more: OSCUR funded by the National Science Foundation!
- “Assessing the Landscape of Toolkits, Frameworks, and Authoring Tools for Urban Visual Analytics Systems” accepted to Computers & Graphics!In this paper, we have reviewed 135 works to assess the extent to which current open-source toolkits, frameworks, and authoring tools can effectively support the development of components tailored to urban visual analytics, identifying strengths and limitations in addressing the unique challenges posed by urban data. The paper can be found here.
- Curio accepted at IEEE VIS 2024!The “Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics” paper was accepted to IEEE VIS 2024. Curio is a framework for collaborative urban visual analytics that uses a dataflow model with multiple abstraction levels (code, grammar, GUI elements) to facilitate collaboration across the design and implementation of visual analytics components. Curio allows users to… Read more: Curio accepted at IEEE VIS 2024!
- “The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data” accepted at EuroVis 2024!Urbanization has amplified the importance of three-dimensional structures in urban environments for a wide range of phenomena that are of significant interest to diverse stakeholders. With the growing availability of 3D urban data, numerous studies have focused on developing visual analysis techniques tailored to the unique characteristics of urban environments. However, incorporating the third dimension… Read more: “The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data” accepted at EuroVis 2024!
- UTK accepted to IEEE VIS 2023!UTK is a flexible and extensible visualization framework that enables the easy authoring of web-based visualizations through a new high-level grammar specifically built with common urban use cases in mind. More information, including paper, source code, and examples, can be found here.
UTK
UTK is a flexible and extensible visualization framework that enables the easy authoring of web-based visualizations through a new high-level grammar specifically built with common urban use cases in mind.
Curio: Collaborative Urban Insight Observatory
Curio is a framework for collaborative urban visual analytics that uses a dataflow model with multiple abstraction levels (code, grammar, GUI elements) to facilitate collaboration across the design and implementation of visual analytics components. The framework allows experts to intertwine preprocessing, managing, and visualization stages while tracking provenance of code and visualizations.
Other projects
- CitySurfaces: City-scale semantic segmentation of sidewalk surfaces
- tile2net: Automated mapping of pedestrian networks from aerial imagery tiles
- Deep Umbra: Generative approach for sunlight access computation
- The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data