ACM SIGSPATIAL 2026 - Accepted Applications Papers
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Adapting Bioacoustic Classification Models to Local Soundscapes via Spatiotemporal Routing
Rhett Olson (National University of Singapore), Jinyu Cai (National University of Singapore) and See Kiong Ng (National University of Singapore) -
GeoTALOS: A Geoscience Platform for Automated Landscape Observation and Spatial Analysis [Applications]
Suraj Prasai (Wake Forest University), Kangning Cui (City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan)), Temidayo Damoye (Wake Forest University), Rongkun Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Zixiao Luo (Wake Forest University), David Lutz (Colby‑Sawyer College), Evan Dethier (Colby College), David Segurado (Wake Forest University), Ying Zhang (Wake Forest University), Miles Silman (Wake Forest University), Victor P. Pauca (Wake Forest University) and Fan Yang (Wake Forest University) -
Building Instance Usage Mapping in Cross-Cultural Urban Scenes from Street View Images using Multimodal Self-Supervised Deep Learning [Applications]
Shailesh Kachhi (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal), Vaibhav Kumar (IISER Bhopal, India) and Deeksha Arya (The University of Tokyo) -
Oncology-informed Super-colocation Detection for Hypothesis Generation in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy [Applications]
Shuai An (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Caitlin Ward (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Mingzhou Yang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Chen Wang (Mayo Clinic), Svetomir Markovic (Mayo Clinic) and Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) -
Translating Diffusion-Based Image Editing to LiDAR Point Clouds for Critical Edge Case Generation in Autonomous Driving Systems [Applications]
Suchetan Uppur (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal), Hemant and Vaibhav Kumar (IISER Bhopal, India) -
Simulating Mega-Event Spatial Demand: A Case Study of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan [Applications]
Xiaojie Yang (The University of Tokyo), Lifeng Lin (The University of Tokyo), Masahiro Sano (Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition), Takeaki Ohdake (Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition), Kazuma Hatano (The University of Tokyo), Noboru Koshizuka (The University of Tokyo) and Hangli Ge (The University of Tokyo) -
From Site Suitability to Site Evidence: A Non-Ranking Geospatial Evidence Framework for Environmental Review of U.S. Critical Mineral Project
Rohit Venkat Gandhi Mendadhala (Idaho National Laboratory), Andreas S Berres (National Laboratory of the Rockies), Christopher J. Forsgren (Idaho National Laboratory), Sarah Inkseep (National Laboratory of the Rockies), Anastasia Bernet (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Cleve Davis (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Alison Peoples (Argonne National Laboratory) and Ruby Nguyen (Idaho National Laboratory) -
Inferring Locations and Correcting Bias in Infectious Disease Data Using Human Mobility [Applications]
Owen Tucker (Emory University), Lily Wang (Emory University), Ruochen Kong (Emory University), Haley Stone (The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)), Matthew Scotch (Arizona State University), Jing Du (The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)), Flora Salim (University of New South Wales), Taylor Anderson (George Mason University), Chandini Raina MacIntyre (University of New South Wales) and Andreas Züfle (Emory University) -
CoastCast: An AI Surrogate for Coastal Storm Surge and Water Level Prediction [Applications]
Saiful Islam (Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida), Zelin Xu (Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida), Maitane Olabarrieta (Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida) and Zhe Jiang (Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida) -
Geospatial Counterfactual Simulation of Intercity Patient Mobility: Medical Resource Interventions and Transport Accessibility Improvements [Applications]
Guohui Ding (Shenyang Aerospace University), Boyu Li (Shenyang Aerospace University), Chao Yang (Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, Peking University First Hospital) and Junbo Sun (Shenyang Aerospace University) -
CARE-EMS: Towards Reliable Emergency Response Planning through Context-Aware Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for EMS Demand Forecasting [Applications]
Md Ali Akber (Oakland University), Samik Bhattarai (Oakland University), Quinn Krommenhoek (California State University Monterey Bay), Dongji Feng (California State University Monterey Bay), Chen Jiang (Auburn University) and Sai Deepthi Yeddula (Oakland University) -
PreSCAN: Fast NeRF Architecture Selection for Satellite Scene Reconstruction
Devjyoti Chakraborty (University of Georgia), Zaki Sukma (University of Georgia), Rakandhiya Rachmanto (University of Georgia), Kriti Ghosh (University of Georgia), In Kee Kim (University of Georgia), Suchendra Bhandarkar (University of Georgia), Lakshmish Ramaswamy (University of Georgia), Nancy O'Hare (University of Georgia) and Deepak Mishra (University of Georgia) -
RAPID: A Reproducible Multi-Agent Pipeline for Interpretable Disaster Damage Assessment from Satellite and Street-View Imagery
Yifan Yang (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University), Wenjing Gong (Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA), Kaili Zhang (Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA), Lei Zou (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University), Zhengzhong Tu (Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University), Hao Li (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore), Zongrong Li (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University) and Xinyue Ye (University of Alabama) -
PARA-FLOW: An Event-Based Framework for Modeling Accessible Multi-Modal Urban Mobility
Fernanda Ventorim (Dept. of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine), Andrew Chio (Dept. of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine), Ruben Vescovo (International Research Inst. of Disaster Science - Tohoku University), Erick Mas (International Research Inst. of Disaster Science - Tohoku University), Shunichi Koshimura (International Research Inst. of Disaster Science - Tohoku University) and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (Dept. of Computer Science - University of California, Irvine) -
Multi-Type Food Flow Prediction and Scenario Analysis between U.S. Counties using Graph Neural Networks [Applications]
Qianheng Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Amit Vyas (The Ohio State University), Carlos Guzman (The Ohio State University), Michelle Miller (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Alfonso Morales (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Yiqun Xie (University of Maryland College Park) and Song Gao (University of Wisconsin-Madison) -
Quantifying the Impact of Traffic Condition Change using Proxy Label-based Graph Neural Networks
Keiichi Ochiai (Yokohama City University) and Hiroyuki Toda (Yokohama City University) -
MyCityMobility: A Scenario-Based Public Transport Evaluation Platform with GTFS and Synthetic People Flow [Application]
Jue Ma (The University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science), Yanbo Pang (University College London), Hiroshi Omata (The University of Tokyo) and Yoshihide Sekimoto (The University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science) -
TopoCell: Topology-Constrained Cellular Subsequence Alignment for Highway Entry and Exit Recognition[Applications]
Jiaqi Sun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jialin Dai (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Haiyong Luo (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jiayi Gong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Xi Yan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yiyang Lin (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Changhai Lin (Yibin Meijie Communication Technology Co., Ltd.) -
EGCZ: Deriving Contextual Zones for Flood Susceptibility Mapping with a Multimodal Foundation Model [Applications]
Aswathi Mundayatt (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore), Hitanshu Seth (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore), Siddharth Anil (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore) and Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore) -
TRASA: Topology-Preserving Road Network Extraction from Historical Topographic Maps
Sofia Kirsanova (University of Minnesota), Zekun Li (University of Minnesota), Stefan Leyk (University of Colorado), Craig A. Knoblock (USC Information Sciences Institute) and Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota) -
A-UTE: Advection Informed, Uncertainty Aware Temperature Emulator
Hira Saleem (UNSW), Cormac Purcell (UNSW), Steven Sherwood (UNSW) and Flora Salim (University of New South Wales) -
Closing the First Mile: Evaluating Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicle Fleets for Sustainable Transit Access [Applications]
Md Masum Mushfiq (Monash University), Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Monash University), Mohammed Eunus Ali (Monash University, Melbourne), Teresa Wang (Monash University) and Egemen Tanin (The University of Melbourne) -
[Applications] DELUGE: Towards Continental-Scale Daily Pluvial Flood Damage Prediction via Interpretable Conditioning on Foundation Model Embeddings
Yuya Kawakami (University of California, Davis), Daniel Cayan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego), Dongyu Liu (University of California, Davis), Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis) and Tom Corringham (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego) -
CarbonTrust: Spatiotemporal Carbon Permanence Assessment via Physics-Aware Neural Networks with Monotonic Constraints [Applications]
Antonio Elia Pascarella (Latitudo 40), Diletta Chiaro (Latitudo 40), Angelo Furno (Univ. Gustave Eiffel, ENTPE), Paolo De Piano (Latitudo 40) and Giovanni Giacco (Latitudo 40) -
[Applications] Deploying and Evaluating a Smart-Agriculture Agentic Engine for Full-Season Soybean Farm Operations
Ao Qu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Panagiotis Michelakis (National Technical University of Athens), Linyuan Han (Harbin Institute of Technology), Yiannis Hadjiyianni (National Technical University of Athens), Kun Ouyang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Konstantinos Siskos (National Technical University of Athens), Feng Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), Ran Meng (Harbin Institute of Technology), Jingchi Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Dimitrios Stamoulis (Harbin Institute of Technology) and Jie Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology) -
Double-Diffusion: Balancing Speed, Accuracy, and Uncertainty in Probabilistic Forecasting for Urban Sensor Networks [Applications]
Hanlin Dong (University of New South Wales), Arian Prabowo (University of New South Wales), Hao Xue (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)), Shuang Ao (Zhejiang University of Technology), Tianyi Zhou (University of Maryland), Yuxuan Liang (University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) and Flora Salim (University of New South Wales) -
Reconstructing GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage with Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks: An Application to South America [Applications]
Lukas Arzoumanidis (HafenCity University Hamburg), Lara Johannsen (HafenCity University, Geodesy and Adjustment Theory), Annette Eicker (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Global Geomonitoring and Gravity Field), Youness Dehbi (HafenCity University Hamburg) and Klara Middendorf (HafenCity University, Geodesy and Adjustment Theory) -
From Footprints to Futures: Evaluating VLMs for Physical, Functional, and Temporal Urban Change Detection [Applications]
Tasmiah Tamzid Anannya (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), Tanzima Hashem (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) and Mohammed Eunus Ali (Monash University, Melbourne) -
Twilight: External Twin-assisted Data Imputation for Multivariate Polar Science Time Series
Yuchuan Huang (University of Minnesota), Ziqi Yin (University of Colorado), Jiaying Zhou (University of Minnesota), Aneesh Subramanian (University of Colorado) and Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota) -
Genesis: A Generative Engine for Hierarchical Satellite Image Synthesis [Applications]
Subash Khanal (Washington University in St. Louis), Yangzhi Cui (Washington University in St. Louis), Daniel Cher (Washington University in St. Louis), Eric Xing (Washington University in St. Louis), Brian Wei (Washington University in St. Louis), Srikumar Sastry (Washington University in St. Louis) and Nathan Jacobs (Washington University in St. Louis) -
pykci: A Compact Urban Knowledge Graph for Semantic and Spatial Queries using LLMs [Applications]
Huynh Duc An Son Nguyen (HafenCity University Hamburg), Lukas Arzoumanidis (HafenCity University Hamburg) and Youness Dehbi (HafenCity University Hamburg) -
Lexicographic Multi-Preference Routing for Priority-Aware Urban Navigation [Applications]
Abdallah Abdelwahab (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA), Ahmed Alsharif (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA) and Mahmoud Mahmoud (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA) -
Applying foundation model embeddings towards urban livability evaluation
Ayush Khot (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Wen Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Shaowen Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) -
Zero-Shot and Semi-Supervised Learning with Noisy Labels for Scalable Urban Tree Mapping Using High-Resolution Aerial Imagery
Mohanad Diab (University of Florida), Chang Zhao (University of Florida), Angelina Wu (University of Florida), Luca Pishos (University of Florida), Ziwen Zhu (University of Florida), Alina Zare (University of Florida) and Joel B. Harley (University of Florida) -
Rapid Quantification of Outdoor Object Visibility in Urban Setting Using Connected-Vehicle Fields of View
Artur Grigorev (University of Technology Sydney) and Adriana-Simona Mihaita (University of Technology Sydney)
Shortened Papers
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A Novel Convolutional Tsetlin Architecture for Classification of Satellite Images Under Limited Supervision
Priya Thangaraj (Indian Institute Of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kurnool), Shounak Chakraborty (Indian Institute Of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kurnool) and Indrajit Kalita (Boston University, 665 Comm Ave., Boston MA 02215) -
KumaWatch: A Multi-Method Wildlife Encounter Alert System toward Operational Municipal Deployment in Northern Japan [Applications]
Hiroshi Jogasaki (Professional University of Electric Mobility Systems) -
An Ensemble Approach to Text-Based Georeferencing of Historical Maps
Zekun Li (University of Minnesota), Fandel Lin (USC Information Sciences Institute), Yijun Lin (University of Minnesota), Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota) and Craig A. Knoblock (USC Information Sciences Institute) -
Synthetic Wastewater Epidemiology Data Generation using Patterns-of-Life Simulation [Applications]
Hossein Amiri (Emory University), Mohammad Hashemi (Emory University), Akshay Deverakonda (Emory University), Joon-Seok Kim (Emory University), Yuke Wang (Emory University) and Andreas Züfle (Emory University) -
Hydrogen Bond Prediction With Spatio-Temporal Evolution Awareness [Applications]
Md Hasan Anowar (Iowa State University), Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University), Sohail Murad (Illinois Institute of Technology), Cynthia Jameson (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Ashfaq Khokhar (Iowa State University) -
Uncovering the Spatial Trilemma of Cost, Equity, and Resilience in Community Worker Allocation [Application]
Mengying Zhou (School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), Jingying Cui (School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) and Lin Gu (Shanghai Volunteer Guidance Center for Longevity) -
Estimating Pedestrian Volumes from GIS-Derived Built-Environment Features: A Machine Learning Framework [Applications]
Bahareh Golchin (Department of Computer Science, Portland State University), Banafsheh Rekabdar (Department of Computer Science, Portland State University), Sirisha Kothuri (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University) and Joseph Broach (Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), Portland State University) -
MambaPop: From Pixels to Sequences for Census-Tract Population Estimation [Applications]
Jackson Ye (Rutgers University) and Alexandre Morozov (Rutgers University) -
Global Surface Coal Mine Segmentation with Multi-Spectral Sentinel-2 Imagery: Overcoming Spectral Dilution using Geospatial Foundation Models [Applications]
Piyush Yadav (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Chengxing Zhai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Hui Su (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) -
[Applications] Dual Spatial Priors for Fully Unseen-Node Traffic Kriging at Virtual Road-Network Locations
Linhui Liu (The University of New South Wales), Du Yin (University of New South Wales), Arian Prabowo (University of New South Wales), Matthew Low (University of New South Wales) and Flora Salim (University of New South Wales) -
FALCON: An Efficient Transportation Mode Detection System Using Limited Cellular Signals [Applications]
Mostafa Atlam (The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt), Hamada Rizk (Osaka University), Khaled Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, Doha, Qatar) and Moustafa Youssef (American University in Cairo) -
Learning Locality Representations from Sparse Georeferenced Online Text for Urban Analytics [Applications]
Jina Kim (University of Minnesota) and Yao-Yi Chiang (University of Minnesota) -
Hierarchical Two-Stage Framework for Environment-Aware Long-Horizon Vessel Trajectory Prediction [Application]
Ganeshaaraj Gnanavel (SAIVT Research Group, Queensland University of Technology), Sridha Sridharan (SAIVT Research Group, Queensland University of Technology), Clinton Fookes (SAIVT Research Group, Queensland University of Technology) and Tharindu Fernando (SAIVT Research Group, Queensland University of Technology) -
VegSim: A Geospatial World Model for Scenario-Conditioned Vegetation Simulation [Applications]
Irene Iele (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma), Elena Mulero Ayllón (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma), Paolo Soda (Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Radiation Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Umeå University, Sweden) and Matteo Tortora (University of Genoa) -
Congestion Forecasting (Actionably) Revisited: Limitations of Deep Learning and Potential of LLM-as-Data-Scientist
Dizhi Huang (The University of Tokyo), Lifeng Lin (The University of Tokyo), Kazuma Hatano (The University of Tokyo), Noboru Koshizuka (The University of Tokyo) and Hangli Ge (The University of Tokyo) -
ICL-Traffic Forecasting: Lightweight In-Context Learning for Pretrained Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models : [Applications]
Parth Ripal Parikh (North Carolina State University), Mrudani Vishal Hada (North Carolina State University), Xuesi Zhou (North Carolina State University) and Ranga Raju Vatsavai (North Carolina State University) -
Seasonal GVI Estimation Without Seasonal Imagery: A Zero-Shot MLLM Framework for Urban Greenery Assessment [Applications]
Seungjoo Ha (Ewha womans university) and Youngok Kang (Ewha Womans University) -
CDGL-H3: H3-Grid Reported Case Intensity Forecasting for U.S. Avian Influenza Surveillance
Yang Lin (The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)), Jing Du (The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)), Haley Stone (The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)), Hao Xue (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) and Flora Salim (University of New South Wales) -
aviary: A Modular Framework for ML Inference on Geospatial Data [Applications]
Marius Maryniak (Westphalian University of Applied Sciences), Alexander Roß (Westphalian University of Applied Sciences), Tim Barz-Cech (Westphalian University of Applied Sciences) and Christian Kuhlmann (Westphalian University of Applied Sciences) -
GovEyes: A Spatial Analytics Workflow for Government Decision Support [Applications]
Muhammad Insan Al-Amin (Monash University), Jinchun Du (Monash University), Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Monash University) and Mario A. Nascimento (University of Alberta) -
Spatially-Counseled Graph Neural Networks for DayCent Surrogate Model
Shengya Zhang (University of Minnesota), Leikun Yin (University of Minnesota), Daksh Kanoria (University of Minnesota), Mingzhou Yang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), David Mulla (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Yao Zhang (Colorado State University) and Shashi Shekhar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) -
What Makes a City Noisy? A Multi-Source Feature Fusion for Urban Noise Prediction [Applications]
Xiaoshu Yang (Rice University), Junbo Wang (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Haofeng Tan (University of South Carolina), Xiaoyu Li (The University of Texas at Austin), Bing Zhou (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Lu Liang (University of California, Berkeley) and Yuhao Kang (The University of Texas at Austin) -
Calibrated District-Level Prediction Intervals for 2025 Paddy Yield Departure in Nepal's Madhesh Province [Applications]
Santosh Pant (Knox College) -
Motorcycle Taxis versus Public Buses: Counterfactual Evidence from Rwanda [Applications]
Agnes Nakalembe (Carnegie Mellon University) and João Barros (Carnegie Mellon University) -
Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Urban Environmental Feature Extraction Using Human-Annotated Semantic Segmentation [Applications]
Hossein Naderi (Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi), Amit Kumar (Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi), Ziba Abbasian (IT GIS Department, City of Corpus Christi) and Yuxia Huang (College of Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
