Papers

Papers of the Urban Toolkit projects, newest first. For a complete list, see Google Scholar.

2026

Occlusion-Free Conformal Lensing for Spatiotemporal Visualization in 3D Urban Analytics

Roberta Mota, Julio D. Silva, Fabio Miranda, Usman Alim, Ehud Sharlin, Nivan Ferreira

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VR 2026), 2026

PaperarXiv

A Neural Field-Based Approach for View Computation & Data Exploration in 3D Urban Environments

Stefan Cobeli, Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Rodrigo Valença, Nivan Ferreira, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2026

Project pagePaperarXivCodeneural-3d

Urbanite: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Human-AI Interactive Alignment in Urban Visual Analytics

Gustavo Moreira, Leonardo Ferreira, Carolina Veiga, Maryam Hosseini, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025), 2026

Project pagePaperarXivCodeUrbanite

VA-Blueprint: Uncovering Building Blocks for Visual Analytics System Design

Leonardo Ferreira, Gustavo Moreira, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025), 2026

Project pagePaperarXivCodeVA-Blueprint

StreetWeave: A Declarative Grammar for Street-Overlaid Visualization of Multivariate Data

Sanjana Srabanti, G. Elisabeta Marai, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2025), 2026

Project pagePaperarXivCodeStreetWeave

Autark: A Serverless Toolkit for Prototyping Urban Visual Analytics Systems

Lucas Alexandre, João Rulff, Talisson Souza, Gustavo Moreira, Daniel de Oliveira, Claudio Silva, Fabio Miranda, Marcos Lage

arXiv preprint, 2026

Project pagearXivCodeAutark

2025

Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics

Gustavo Moreira, Maryam Hosseini, Carolina Veiga, Lucas Alexandre, Nicola Colaninno, Daniel de Oliveira, Nivan Ferreira, Marcos Lage, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2024), 2025

Project pagePaperarXivCodeCurio

Deep Umbra: A Generative Approach for Sunlight Access Computation in Urban Spaces

Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Gustavo Moreira, Daniel Hodczak, Maryam Hosseini, Nicola Colaninno, Marcos Lage, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2025

Project pagePaperarXivCodeDeep Umbra

2024

Assessing the landscape of toolkits, frameworks, and authoring tools for urban visual analytics systems

Leonardo Ferreira, Gustavo Moreira, Maryam Hosseini, Marcos Lage, Nivan Ferreira, Fabio Miranda

Computers & Graphics, 2024

Paper

The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data

Fabio Miranda, Thomas Ortner, Gustavo Moreira, Maryam Hosseini, Milena Vuckovic, Filip Biljecki, Claudio T. Silva, Marcos Lage, Nivan Ferreira

Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis 2024), 2024

Project pagePaperarXivSurvey 3D

PROWIS: A Visual Approach for Building, Managing, and Analyzing Weather Simulation Ensembles at Runtime

Carolina Veiga Ferreira de Souza, Suzanna Maria Bonnet, Daniel de Oliveira, Marcio Cataldi, Fabio Miranda, Marcos Lage

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2023), 2024

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The Urban Toolkit: A Grammar-Based Framework for Urban Visual Analytics

Gustavo Moreira, Maryam Hosseini, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu, Marcos Lage, Nivan Ferreira, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2023), 2024

Project pagePaperarXivCodeUTK

2023

Mapping the walk: A scalable computer vision approach for generating sidewalk network datasets from aerial imagery

Maryam Hosseini, Andres Sevtsuk, Fabio Miranda, Roberto M. Cesar, Claudio T. Silva

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2023

Project pagePaperCodetile2net

A Comparison of Spatiotemporal Visualizations for 3D Urban Analytics

Roberta Mota, Nivan Ferreira, Julio Daniel Silva, Marius Horga, Marcos Lage, Luis Ceferino, Usman Alim, Ehud Sharlin, Fabio Miranda

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS 2022), 2023

PaperarXiv

2022

CitySurfaces: City-scale semantic segmentation of sidewalk materials

Maryam Hosseini, Fabio Miranda, Jianzhe Lin, Claudio T. Silva

Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022

Project pagePaperarXivCodeCitySurfaces