publications

2025

1. STOTEN

   Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa

   A. Barbara Metzler, Ricky Nathvani, Viktoriia Sharmanska, and 10 more authors

   Science of The Total Environment, 2025

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   @article{metzler2025clustering,
     title = {Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa},
     author = {Metzler, A. Barbara and Nathvani, Ricky and Sharmanska, Viktoriia and Bai, Wenjia and Moulds, Simon and Owoo, Nkechi Srodah and Fynn, Iris Ekua Mensimah and Muller, Emily and Dufitimana, Esaie and Akara, Ghafi Kondi and Owusu, George and Agyei-Mensah, Samuel and Ezzati, Majid},
     journal = {Science of The Total Environment},
     volume = {988},
     pages = {179739},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
     doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179739},
   }

2. ISPRS

   Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics

   Ricky Nathvani, Alicia Cavanaugh, Esra Suel, and 14 more authors

   ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2025

   Bib

   @article{nathvani2025vitality,
     title = {Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics},
     author = {Nathvani, Ricky and Cavanaugh, Alicia and Suel, Esra and Bixby, Honor and Clark, Sierra N. and Metzler, A. Barbara and Nimo, James and Moses, Josephine Bedford and Baah, Solomon and Arku, Raphael E. and Robinson, Brian E. and Baumgartner, Jill and Bennett, James E. and Arif, Abeer M. and Long, Ying and Agyei-Mensah, Samuel and Ezzati, Majid},
     journal = {ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing},
     volume = {221},
     pages = {251--264},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Elsevier}
   }

3. EPB

   AI in land use

   Daniel Arribas-Bel, Barbara Metzler, and Stuart Lynn

   Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2025

2023

1. STOTEN

   Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning

   A. Barbara Metzler, Ricky Nathvani, Viktoriia Sharmanska, and 4 more authors

   Science of The Total Environment, 2023

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   @article{metzler2023phenotyping,
     title = {Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning},
     author = {Metzler, A. Barbara and Nathvani, Ricky and Sharmanska, Viktoriia and Bai, Wenjia and Muller, Emily and Moulds, Simon and others},
     journal = {Science of The Total Environment},
     volume = {893},
     pages = {164794},
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
     doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164794},
   }

2. STOTEN

   Beyond here and now: Evaluating pollution estimation across space and time from street view images with deep learning

   Ricky Nathvani, D. Vishwanath, Sierra N. Clark, and 17 more authors

   Science of the Total Environment, 2023

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   @article{nathvani2023pollution,
     title = {Beyond here and now: Evaluating pollution estimation across space and time from street view images with deep learning},
     author = {Nathvani, Ricky and Vishwanath, D. and Clark, Sierra N. and Alli, Abosede S. and Muller, Emily and Coste, Henri and Bennett, James E. and Nimo, James and Moses, Josephine Bedford and Baah, Solomon and Hughes, Allison and Suel, Esra and Metzler, A. Barbara and Rashid, Theo and Brauer, Michael and Baumgartner, Jill and Owusu, George and Agyei-Mensah, Samuel and Arku, Raphael E. and Ezzati, Majid},
     journal = {Science of the Total Environment},
     volume = {903},
     pages = {166168},
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
     doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166168},
   }

3. Sustain.

   Using deep learning and Google Street View imagery to assess and improve cyclist safety in London

   Luis Rita, Ricky Nathvani, Miguel Peliteiro, and 6 more authors

   Sustainability, 2023

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   @article{rita2023cyclist,
     title = {Using deep learning and Google Street View imagery to assess and improve cyclist safety in London},
     author = {Rita, Luis and Nathvani, Ricky and Peliteiro, Miguel and Bostan, Tudor-Codrin and Muller, Emily and Suel, Esra and Metzler, A. Barbara and Tamagusko, Tiago and Ferreira, Adelino},
     journal = {Sustainability},
     volume = {15},
     number = {13},
     pages = {10270},
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {MDPI},
     doi = {10.3390/su151310270},
   }

2022

1. Sci. Rep.

   Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra

   Ricky Nathvani, Sierra N. Clark, Emily Muller, and 7 more authors

   Scientific Reports, 2022

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   @article{nathvani2022accra,
     title = {Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra},
     author = {Nathvani, Ricky and Clark, Sierra N. and Muller, Emily and Alli, Abosede S. and Bennett, James E. and Nimo, James and Moses, Josephine Bedford and Baah, Solomon and Metzler, A. Barbara and others},
     journal = {Scientific Reports},
     volume = {12},
     number = {1},
     pages = {20470},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
     doi = {10.1038/s41598-022-24474-1},
   }

2. arXiv

   Mapping city-wide perceptions of neighbourhood quality using street view images

   Emily Muller, Emily Gemmell, Indrajit Choudhury, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.12139, 2022

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @article{muller2022perceptions,
     title = {Mapping city-wide perceptions of neighbourhood quality using street view images},
     author = {Muller, Emily and Gemmell, Emily and Choudhury, Indrajit and Nathvani, Ricky and Metzler, A. Barbara and others},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.12139},
     year = {2022},
   }

3. ISEE

   Characterization of urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning

   A. Barbara Metzler, Ricky Nathvani, Viktoriia Sharmanska, and 1 more author

   In ISEE Conference Abstracts, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, 2022

2021

1. ISEE

   Spatiotemporal characterization of urban activity and environment with imagery and deep learning

   Ricky Nathvani, Sierra N. Clark, Emily Muller, and 7 more authors

   In ISEE Conference Abstracts, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, 2021

2018

1. IPIN

   Geometric Constraint Model and Mobility Graphs for Building Utilization Intelligence

   Thomas Burgess, Barbara Metzler, Andreas Ettlinger, and 1 more author

   In International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), 2018