Using artificial intelligence to implement the UN sustainable development goals at higher education institutions

W Leal Filho, PCC Ribeiro, J Mazutti… - … Development & World …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Artificial intelligence (AI) can significantly contribute to the implementation of the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by offering innovative solutions and …

Estimating building energy efficiency from street view imagery, aerial imagery, and land surface temperature data

K Mayer, L Haas, T Huang, J Bernabé-Moreno… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Current methods to determine the energy efficiency of buildings generally require on-site
visits of certified energy auditors which makes the process slow, costly, and geographically …

Bridging the digital divide: Performance variation across socio-economic factors in vision-language models

J Nwatu, O Ignat, R Mihalcea - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.05746, 2023 - arxiv.org
Despite the impressive performance of current AI models reported across various tasks,
performance reports often do not include evaluations of how these models perform on the …

An examination of the spatial coverage and temporal variability of Google Street View (GSV) images in small-and medium-sized cities: A people-based approach

J Kim, KM Jang - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
We conduct a methodological investigation of the spatial coverage and temporal variability
of Google Street View (GSV) images adopting a people-based approach. Specifically, we …

Mitigation strategies to improve reproducibility of poverty estimations from remote sensing images using deep learning

J Machicao, A Ben Abbes, L Meneguzzi… - Earth and Space …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The challenges of Reproducibility and Replicability (R & R) in computer science
experiments have become a focus of attention in the last decade, as efforts to adhere to …

[HTML][HTML] DeepWealth: A generalizable open-source deep learning framework using satellite images for well-being estimation

AB Abbes, J Machicao, PLP Corrêa, A Specht… - SoftwareX, 2024 - Elsevier
Measuring socioeconomic indices at the scale of regions or countries is required in various
contexts, in particular to inform public policies. The use of Deep Learning (DL) and Earth …

Assessing the Feasibility and Ethics of Economic Status Prediction using Deep Learning on Household Images

AN Dar, N Sengupta, C Arora - ACM Journal on Computing and …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Precise and comprehensive measurements of socioeconomic status are crucial for both
academic investigations and policy making. However, in developing countries, such …

Exploring Urban Street Green Perception from the Perspective of Combining GVI and NDVI: A Case Study of Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province

L Su, W Chen, Y Zhou, L Fan, J Li - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Urban street greening has a positive impact on the health of citizens and the urban
environment. This study takes the representative streets in the main urban area of …

[PDF][PDF] Predicting Socio-economic Indicator Variations with Satellite Image Time Series and Transformer

UA IRD, UR UG - 2024 - lirmm.fr
Monitoring local socio-economic variations is essential for tracking progress toward
sustainable development goals. However, measuring these variations can be challenging …

The detection of socio-economic impacts of protected area creation

A Specht, MJM Justo, P Corrêa, R Devillers… - Authorea …, 2023 - authorea.com
This paper discusses a project aimed at detecting whether protected areas (PAs) influence
the socioeconomic well-being of adjacent communities. The Belmont Forum funded …