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Join us at the UGOD Summer AI Symposium on July 9, 2025, at HKUST (Guangzhou). With the theme “Intersecting Futures: Human - Centered AI for Smart Cities,” professors from UGOD and other thrusts will give presentations on topics including Urban Computing and Cognition, Urban Mapping, Modeling and Visualization, Urban Design and Planning, and AI in Urban Systems.More details

We have recently initiated a special issue on “Semantic Understanding of Multi-modal Remote Sensing Data” in The Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS) on an invitation basis. We cordially invite esteemed researchers and scholars to submit high-quality manuscripts.

It was a privilege to have Prof. Dr. Alfred Stein from Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, visit our campus and AI4DCity Lab!

We’re organizing an session titled “Scan-to-BIM/CIM: Digital Innovations and Applications” for the ISDE-The 2nd Youth Innovation Forum on Digital Earth from December 4-7, 2024, in Hong Kong, China. We hope to see you there! For details and registration, visit the official website link.

Pleased to have hosted Prof. Filip Biljecki and his PhD student Xiucheng Liang from NUS at HKUST Guangzhou for enlightening exchanges!

We’re organizing an session titled “Scan-to-BIM/CIM: Digital Innovations and Applications” for the ISDE-The 2nd Youth Innovation Forum on Digital Earth from December 4-7, 2024, in Hong Kong, China. We hope to see you there! For details and registration, visit the official website link.

Glad to announce the Series Webinar on AI for Remote Sensing and Sustainable Cities. From May 8th to June 6th, our lab will have the honor of hosting 10 distinguished young scholars from leading European institutions to share their insights. Stay tuned!

Dr. Wufan Zhao has been shortlisted in the Top 30 reviewers of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for 2023.