This master thesis focuses on practical application of Convolutional Neural Network models on the task of road labeling with bike attractivity score. We start with an abstraction of real world locations into nodes and scored edges in partially annotated dataset. We enhance information available about each edge with pho…
Generative adversarial networks transform streetscape images to improve health and wellbeing.
problem Improving health and wellbeing outcomes through better streetscape design.
method Generative adversarial networks were used to translate Google Street View images, preserving structure while changing the style from bad health to good health areas.
result Translated images show that good health areas have more green space and compact urban design, while good social capital areas have more footpaths and less fencing.
New dataset for automated pavement distress classification and density estimation.
problem Challenges in automated pavement distress detection using road images.
method Pavement Image Dataset (PID) method, combining wide-view and top-down view images.
result Accuracy scores of 0.84 for YOLOv2 and 0.65 for Faster R-CNN, suitable for practical applications.
Urban2Vec combines street view imagery and POIs for better urban neighborhood embeddings.
problem Lack of comprehensive representation of urban neighborhoods using heterogeneous data.
method Unsupervised multi-modal framework using CNN for visual features and bag-of-words for POI data.
result Urban2Vec achieves better performance than baseline models and comparable to fully-supervised methods.
Gursky-Streets introduced a formal Riemannian metric on the space of conformal metrics in a fixed conformal class of a compact Riemannian four-manifold in the context of the σ2-Yamabe problem. The geodesic equation of Gursky-Streets' metric is a fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equation and Gursky-Streets have pr…
End-to-end method learns geometry and appearance for multi-view object detection.
problem Challenges in multi-view object detection, including viewpoint, lighting, and scale variability.
method Jointly learns multi-view geometry and warping for robust cross-view object detection.
result Superior performance compared to baselines on a new street-level panorama data set.
We study a multiclass multiple instance learning (MIL) problem where the labels only suggest whether any instance of a class exists or does not exist in a training sample or example. No further information, e.g., the number of instances of each class, relative locations or orders of all instances in a training sample, …
The paper proposes a model to learn street network representations directly from graphs.
problem Loss of detailed topological data in raster representations of street networks.
method Variational autoencoder with graph convolutional layers and a probabilistic fully-connected graph decoder.
result The model infers good representations directly from street networks, capturing both local structure and spatial distribution.
AI helps Vancouver identify where off-street parking saves time and space.
problem On-street parking inefficiencies and associated costs in Vancouver.
method Developed AI models for on-street and off-street parking, comparing time costs.
result Many areas off-street parking saves time and space, aligning with city goals.
Study develops a new tool for assessing asphalt pavement conditions using deep learning.
problem Challenges in automated pavement distress detection via road images.
method Developed a hybrid model using YOLO for classification and U-net for segmentation, creating a comprehensive pavement condition tool.
result Created a new asphalt pavement condition index using deep learning.
VAE models generate urban street networks from data.
problem Quantitative description of urban patterns.
method Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for urban street network data.
result VAEs can capture urban network metrics and generate new urban forms.
Satellite images predict U.S. county mortality rates.
problem Predicting mortality rates in U.S. counties using satellite imagery.
method Convolutional neural network trained on crude mortality rates, learned features interpreted using Shapley Additive Feature Explanations.
result Predicted mortality from satellite images correlated strongly with true mortality rates (Pearson r=0.72).
Research confirms Streets-Tian conjecture for 2-step solvmanifolds.
problem Streets-Tian conjecture for compact complex manifolds.
method Used special non-unitary frames to reveal hidden symmetries.
result Confirms conjecture for all 2-step solvmanifolds.
Solves Gursky-Streets equations for σk Yamabe problem in dimensions n≥2k.
problem Solving the σk Yamabe problem in dimensions n≥2k. method Introduced and solved the Gursky-Streets equations with uniform C1,1 estimates using concavity of the operator and Garding's theory of hyperbolic polynomials. result Established the uniqueness of the solution to the degenerate equations for the first time.
Bitcoin's attention is linked to Google Trends data, not general uncertainty.
problem Bitcoin's correlation with Google Trends data was previously misunderstood.
method Analyzed bidirectional relationships between Bitcoin returns and Google Trends attention over six days.
result Information flows from Bitcoin volatility to Google Trends attention, not the other way.
More than half of the world's roads lack adequate street addressing systems. Lack of addresses is even more visible in daily lives of people in developing countries. We would like to object to the assumption that having an address is a luxury, by proposing a generative address design that maps the world in accordance w…
Google Trends data improves economic forecasts of private consumption.
problem Improving economic forecasts of private consumption.
method Machine learning techniques applied to categorized Google search data.
result Google data can identify patterns to generate a leading indicator in real time.
Semantic image segmentation is one the most demanding task, especially for analysis of traffic conditions for self-driving cars. Here the results of application of several deep learning architectures (PSPNet and ICNet) for semantic image segmentation of traffic stereo-pair images are presented. The images from Cityscap…
Google Trends can lead to misleading forecasts if not used carefully.
problem Misleading forecasts due to the variability of Google Trends data.
method Analyzing the variability of Google Trends data and proposing solutions.
result Google Trends can be a problem if not used with caution.
We continue studying a parabolic flow of almost Kähler structures introduced by Streets and Tian which naturally extends Kähler-Ricci flow onto symplectic manifolds. In the system of primarily the symplectic form, almost complex structure, Chern torsion and Chern connection, we establish new formulas for the evolutions…
Taxi demand prediction is an important building block to enabling intelligent transportation systems in a smart city. An accurate prediction model can help the city pre-allocate resources to meet travel demand and to reduce empty taxis on streets which waste energy and worsen the traffic congestion. With the increasing…
In recent years, Streets and Tian introduced a series of curvature flows to study non-Kähler geometry. In this paper, we study how to construct second order curvature flows in a uniform way, under some natural assumptions which holds in Streets and Tian's works. As a result, by classifying the lower order tensors, we c…
Accurate real-time tracking of influenza outbreaks helps public health officials make timely and meaningful decisions that could save lives. We propose an influenza tracking model, ARGO (AutoRegression with GOogle search data), that uses publicly available online search data. In addition to having a rigorous statistica…
In a densely populated city like Dhaka (Bangladesh), a growing number of high-rise buildings is an inevitable reality. However, they pose mental health risks for citizens in terms of detachment from natural light, sky view, greenery, and environmental landscapes. The housing economy and rent structure in different area…
The Streets-Tian conjecture is confirmed for specific types of Hermitian manifolds.
problem The Streets-Tian conjecture on compact Hermitian manifolds.
method Elementary approach, explicit descriptions, and pathways of deformation.
result The conjecture is confirmed for special types of compact Hermitian manifolds.
Study links public concern in Italy to financial markets worldwide.
problem Understanding public concern's impact on financial markets during pandemics.
method Used Google Trends data from YouTube, News, and Search to measure public concern and correlate it with stock index returns.
result Public concern in Italy drives concerns in other countries and explains stock index returns of multiple nations.
Method estimates travel times on urban roads using Uber data.
problem Estimating travel times on urban roads where data is scarce.
method Graph representation, trip sampling, least-squares optimization.
result Estimates travel times on arterial roads using aggregated Uber data.
Empirical law predicts accuracy of Google Translate's translation chains.
problem Predicting accuracy in machine translation with multiple hops.
method Empirical testing of Google Translate's sequential translation.
result Accuracy decreases with the number of translating hops, following a power law.
Method generates uncertainty measures for street scene segmentation.
problem Reliability and uncertainty measures in semantic segmentation of street scenes.
method Nested crops, neural network segmentation, post-processing, uncertainty heat maps.
result Significant improvements in classification and regression performance.
Study uses Viber and street polls to estimate Belarus election ratings and turnout.
problem Obtaining accurate ratings of candidates in Belarus's banned polls.
method Bayesian multilevel regression with poststratification.
result Estimated ratings and turnout contradict official election results.
Open-source Vizier optimizes complex systems for Google and beyond.
problem Optimizing large-scale systems with multiple objectives and constraints.
method Distributed, fault-tolerant, flexible API for blackbox optimization.
result OSS Vizier supports a wide range of optimization problems and is available as open-source.
MAVENs combine GAN and VAE for better image generation and classification.
problem Improve image generation and classification using unsupervised learning.
method Introduce MAVENs, an ensemble of discriminators in a VAE-GAN network.
result Demonstrated competitive performance in image generation and classification tasks.
This essay suggests that a proper assessment of the presently unfolding financial crisis, and its cure, requires going back at least to the late 1990s, accounting for the cumulative effect of the ITC, real-estate and financial derivative bubbles. We focus on the deep loss of trust, not only in Wall Street, but more imp…
The Streets-Tian conjecture is confirmed for Lie algebras with specific abelian ideals.
problem The Streets-Tian conjecture on compact complex manifolds admitting Hermitian-symplectic metrics.
method Detailed case analysis of Lie algebras with abelian ideals of codimension 2, explicit construction of Hermitian-symplectic metrics and pathways to Kähler metrics.
result The Streets-Tian conjecture is confirmed for Lie algebras containing abelian ideals of codimension 2.
Analyzes global economic sectors' interdependence using Google matrix analysis.
problem Understanding interdependencies and interactions among world economies and sectors.
method Reduced Google matrix algorithm applied to OECD-WTO network data.
result Shows sensitivity of sectors to petroleum activity and interdependencies among countries.
Modern vision-based reinforcement learning techniques often use convolutional neural networks (CNN) as universal function approximators to choose which action to take for a given visual input. Until recently, CNNs have been treated like black-box functions, but this mindset is especially dangerous when used for control…
We introduce Parseval networks, a form of deep neural networks in which the Lipschitz constant of linear, convolutional and aggregation layers is constrained to be smaller than 1. Parseval networks are empirically and theoretically motivated by an analysis of the robustness of the predictions made by deep neural networ…
VCAE uses vine copulas to improve AE generative models for high-dimensional data.
problem Creating flexible generative models for high-dimensional data.
method Three-step procedure: autoencoder compression, vine copula estimation, and generative model combination.
result VCAEs achieve competitive results compared to standard baselines.
Using non-linear machine learning methods and a proper backtest procedure, we critically examine the claim that Google Trends can predict future price returns. We first review the many potential biases that may influence backtests with this kind of data positively, the choice of keywords being by far the greatest culpr…
Recently, J. Streets and G. Tian introduced a natural way to evolve an almost-Kähler manifold called the symplectic curvature flow, in which the metric, the symplectic structure and the almost-complex structure are all evolving. We study in this paper different aspects of the flow on locally homogeneous manifolds, incl…
This reports on the fundamental objects revealed by Ross Street, which he called `orientals'. Street's work was in part inspired by Robert's attempts to use N-category ideas to construct nets of C*-algebras in Minkowski space for applications to relativistic quantum field theory: Roberts' additional challenge was that …
Study evaluates clustering methods for Google Trends data.
problem Clustering high-dimensional, noisy time series data.
method Symbolic Aggregate Approximation (SAX), Enhanced SAX (eSAX), and Topological Data Analysis (TDA).
result TDA provides more balanced and meaningful groupings than SAX and eSAX.
Automates loss function selection for faster, more robust model training.
problem Manual selection of loss functions is inefficient and model-specific.
method Meta-learning to learn parametric loss functions that generalize across tasks.
result Meta-trained loss functions improve model performance in supervised and reinforcement learning.
Automated tool reduces FPGA inference latency to 5 μs for deep neural networks.
problem Deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks on FPGAs.
method Extending hls4ml library, using model compression techniques like pruning and quantization-aware training.
result Achieved inference latency of 5 μs with 97% resource reduction.
Prove long-time existence of pluriclosed flow on certain fibrations
problem Long-time existence of pluriclosed flow on fibrations
method General theorem on holomorphic submersions
result Long-time existence of pluriclosed flow on nilmanifolds, almost-abelian solvmanifolds, and certain complex surfaces
The paper uses data science to predict stock trends of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
problem Short-term market movement prediction for major tech stocks.
method Combination of technical analysis and machine/deep learning for trend classification.
result Generated labels for data set: +1 (buy), 0 (hold), -1 (sell).
Ethereum trends analyzed through blockchain transactions and Google searches.
problem Identifying market manipulation in crypto prices.
method Big data analysis of Ethereum transactions, smart contracts, and search volumes.
result Big players manipulate crypto markets after price drops.
LSTM outperforms traditional models in forecasting international migration.
problem Precise forecasting of international migration for policymaking.
method Replaced a gravity linear model with an LSTM approach using Google Trends data.
result LSTM approach combined with Google Trends data outperforms existing models.