Publications

For a complete and up-to-date list of GeoAIR Lab publications, please check our GeoAIR Lab Google Scholar page.

Selected publications (Journal articles)

(* indicates the corresponding author. underscored refers to advisees.)

• • Yang, L.*, Driscol, J., Sarigai, S., Wu, Q,, Chen, H.,  &  Lippitt, C. D. (2022). Google Earth Engine and Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Comprehensive Review. Remote Sensing, 29(10), 1737-1756.  (Invited feature paper with publication fee fully waived)  [Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) indexed]
    • Top 1 most viewed article among all papers published in the journal in the past 6 months (within 3 months being  published)
    • Top 3 most viewed article among all papers published in the journal in the past 6 months (within 50 days being  published)
    • Top 5 (within half-month being published)
    • Top 7 within 1 week, and Top 10 within 2 days it gets published.
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  • Yang, L.*, Driscol, J., Sarigai, S., Wu, Q, Lippitt, C. D., & Morgan, M. (2022). Towards Synoptic Water Monitoring Systems: A Review of AI Methods for Automating Water Body Detection and Water Quality Monitoring Using Remote Sensing. Sensors, 22(6), 2416.  (Invited feature paper with publication fee fully waived) [Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) indexed] .
  • Yang, L.*, & Worboys, M. (2015). Generation of navigation graphs for indoor space. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29(10), 1737-1756.      (Cited by 78 as of October 29, 2020)     [Science Citation Index (SCI) indexed]
  • Yang, L.*, & Cervone, G. (2019). Analysis of remote sensing imagery for disaster assessment using deep learning: a case study of flooding event. Soft Computing, 23(24), 13393-13408.      (Cited by 11 as of October 29, 2020)     [Science Citation Index (SCI) indexed]
  • Yang, L.*, MacEachren, A. M., Mitra, P., & Onorati, T. (2018). Visually-enabled active deep learning for (geo) text and image classification: a review. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(2), 65.     (Cited by 22 as of October 29, 2020)    [Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) indexed]
  • Pan, Y., Zhang, X.*, Cervone, G., & Yang, L. (2018). Detection of asphalt pavement potholes and cracks based on the unmanned aerial vehicle multispectral imagery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 11(10), 3701-3712.      (Cited by 26 as of October 29, 2020) [Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) indexed]
  • Yang, N.*, MacEachren, A. M., & Yang, L. (2019). TIN-based tag map layout. The Cartographic Journal, 56(2), 101-116.      ( Cited by 1 as of October 29, 2020) [Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) indexed]

Selected publications (Conference papers)

(* indicates the corresponding author.)

• • Yang, L.*, Oyen, D., & Wohlberg, B. (2019). A novel algorithm for skeleton extraction from images using topological graph analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops.  (Cited by 6  as of October 29, 2020)
  • Yang, L.*, Oyen, D., & Wohlberg, B. (2019). Image classification using topological features automatically extracted from graph representation of images. In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG). (Cited by 3 as of October 29, 2020)
  • Yang, L.*, MacEachren, A. M., & Mitra, P. (2020). Geographical feature classification from text using (active) convolutional neural networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA).
  • Yang, L.*, Gong, M., & Asari, V. K. (2020). Diagram Image Retrieval and Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. ( Cited by 1 as of October 29, 2020)
  • Yang, L.*, & Worboys, M. (2011). A navigation ontology for outdoor-indoor space. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL international workshop on indoor spatial awareness. (Cited by 69 as of October 29, 2020)
  • Potts, C., Yang, L.*, Oyen, D., & Wohlberg, B. (2019). A Topological Graph-Based Representation for Denoising Low Quality Binary Images. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops. (Cited by 1  as of October 29, 2020)
  • Gong, M., Yang, L.*, Potts, C., Asari, V. K., Oyen, D., & Wohlberg, B. (2020). TGGLines: A Robust Topological Graph Guided Line Segment Detector for Low Quality Binary Images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12428. (Cited by 1 as of October 29, 2020)
  • Bhattarai, M.*, Oyen, D., Castorena, J., Yang, L., & Wohlberg, B. (2020). Diagram Image Retrieval using Sketch-Based Deep Learning and Transfer Learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops.