@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},}
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
@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}}
EPB
AI in land use
Daniel Arribas-Bel, Barbara Metzler, and Stuart Lynn
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2025
2023
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
@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},}
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
@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},}
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
@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
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
@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},}
arXiv
Mapping city-wide perceptions of neighbourhood quality using street view images
Emily Muller, Emily Gemmell, Indrajit Choudhury, and 3 more authors
@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},}
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
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
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