Publications

C. Li, R.Y. Pang, D. Labbé, Y. Eisenberg, M. Hosseini, J.E. Froehlich. "Accessibility for Whom? Perceptions of Mobility Barriers Across Disability Groups and Implications for Designing Personalized Maps." ACM CHI (2025).

J. Hwang, C. Li, H. Kang, M. Hosseini, J.E. Froehlich. ""Where Can I Park?" Understanding Human Perspectives and Scalably Detecting Disability Parking from Aerial Imagery." ACM SIGACCESS (2025).

G. Moreira, L. Ferreira, C. Veiga, M. Hosseini, F. Miranda. "Urbanite: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Human-AI Interactive Alignment in Urban Visual Analytics." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2025).

N. Colaninno, R. Basu, M. Hosseini, A. Alhassan, L. Liu, A. Sevtsuk. "A Sidewalk-Level Urban Heat Risk Assessment Framework Using Pedestrian Mobility and Urban Microclimate Modeling." Environment and Planning B (2025).

J. Atkins, J. Rulff, C. Silva, M. Hosseini. "StreetTransformer: Precedent Retrieval and Multimodal Fusion with Vision Language Models." ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Urban Computing (2025).

F. Miranda, T. Ortner, G. Moreira, M. Hosseini, M. Vuckovic, F. Biljecki, et al.. "The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data." Computer Graphics Forum (2024).

L. Ferreira, G. Moreira, M. Hosseini, M. Lage, N. Ferreira, F. Miranda. "Assessing the Landscape of Toolkits, Frameworks, and Authoring Tools for Urban Visual Analytics Systems." Computers & Graphics (2024).

K.S. Omar, G. Moreira, D. Hodczak, M. Hosseini, N. Colaninno, M. Lage, et al.. "Deep Umbra: A Generative Approach for Sunlight Access Computation in Urban Spaces." IEEE Transactions on Big Data (2024).

G. Moreira, M. Hosseini, C. Veiga, L. Alexandre, N. Colaninno, D. De Oliveira, et al.. "Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2024).

X. Liu, K. Wu, M. Kulkarni, M. Saugstad, P.A. Rapo, J. Freiburger, M. Hosseini, et al.. "Towards Fine-Grained Sidewalk Accessibility Assessment with Deep Learning: Initial Benchmarks and an Open Dataset." Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2024).

J.E. Froehlich, C. Li, M. Hosseini, F. Miranda, A. Sevtsuk, Y. Eisenberg. "The Future of Urban Accessibility: The Role of AI." Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2024).

R.J.P. Damaceno, L. Ferreira, F. Miranda, M. Hosseini, R.M. Cesar Jr.. "SideSeeing: A Multimodal Dataset and Collection of Tools for Sidewalk Assessment." arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06464 (2024).

J. Rulff, G. Pereira, M. Hosseini, M. Lage, C. Silva. "Towards Data-Informed Interventions: Opportunities and Challenges of Street-Level Multimodal Sensing." arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22092 (2024).

M. Hosseini, M. Cipriano, S. Eslami, D. Hodczak, L. Liu, A. Sevtsuk, et al.. "ELSA: Evaluating Localization of Social Activities in Urban Streets using Open-Vocabulary Detection." arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01551 (2024).

M. Hosseini, A. Sevtsuk, F. Miranda, R.M. Cesar Jr., C.T. Silva. "Mapping the Walk: A Scalable Computer Vision Approach for Generating Sidewalk Network Datasets from Aerial Imagery." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2023).

Y. Piadyk, J. Rulff, E. Brewer, M. Hosseini, K. Ozbay, M. Sankaradas, et al.. "StreetAware: A High-Resolution Synchronized Multimodal Urban Scene Dataset." Sensors (2023).

G. Moreira, M. Hosseini, M.N.A. Nipu, M. Lage, N. Ferreira, F. Miranda. "The Urban Toolkit: A Grammar-Based Framework for Urban Visual Analytics." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS) (2023).

L. Melgar-García, M. Hosseini, A. Troncoso. "Identification of Anomalies in Urban Sound Data with Autoencoders." International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (2023).

C. Santos, M. Hosseini, J. Rulff, F. Miranda, L. Wilson, C. Silva, N. Ferreira, et al.. "Visual Analytics for Profiling Land Use Changes." 2023 36th SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI) (2023).

C.T. Silva, K. Ozbay, J. Rulff de Costa, J. Lin, M. Hosseini, E. Tokuda. "Exploring AI-Based Video Segmentation and Saliency Computation to Optimize Imagery Acquisition from Moving Vehicles." Connected Cities for Smart Mobility toward Accessible and Resilient Transportation (2023).

M. Hosseini. "Joining the Party in Downtown Brooklyn." Routledge Handbook of Urban Public Space (2023).

M. Hosseini, F. Miranda, B. Lin, C.T. Silva. "CitySurfaces: City-Scale Semantic Segmentation of Sidewalk Materials." Sustainable Cities and Society (2022).

M. Hosseini, M. Saugstad, F. Miranda, A. Sevtsuk, C.T. Silva, J.E. Froehlich. "Towards Global-Scale Crowd+AI Techniques to Map and Assess Sidewalks for People with Disabilities." arXiv preprint (2022).

J.E. Froehlich, Y. Eisenberg, M. Hosseini, F. Miranda, M. Adams, A. Caspi, et al.. "The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytics, Policy, and Tools." Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2022).

M. Duan, S. Kiami, L. Milandin, J. Kuang, M. Saugstad, M. Hosseini, et al.. "Scaling Crowd+AI Sidewalk Accessibility Assessments: Initial Experiments Examining Label Quality and Cross-City Training on Performance." Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (2022).

J. Rulff, F. Miranda, M. Hosseini, M. Lage, M. Cartwright, G. Dove, J. Bello, et al.. "Urban Rhapsody: Large-Scale Exploration of Urban Soundscapes." Computer Graphics Forum (2022).

K.S. Omar, G. Moreira, D. Hodczak, M. Hosseini, F. Miranda. "Crowdsourcing and Sidewalk Data: A Preliminary Study on the Trustworthiness of OpenStreetMap Data in the US." arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.02350 (2022).

M. Hosseini, I.B. Araujo, H. Yazdanpanah, E.K. Tokuda, F. Miranda, C.T. Silva, et al.. "Sidewalk Measurements from Satellite Images: Preliminary Findings." arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.06120 (2021).

F. Miranda, M. Hosseini, M. Lage, H. Doraiswamy, G. Dove, C.T. Silva. "Urban Mosaic: Visual Exploration of Streetscapes Using Large-Scale Image Data." ACM CHI (2020).

C.T. Silva, J. Freire, F. Miranda, M. Lage, H. Doraiswamy, M. Hosseini, et al.. "Integrated Analytics and Visualization for Multi-Modality Transportation Data." Connected Cities for Smart Mobility toward Accessible and Resilient Transportation (2019).

H.E. Masoumi, M. Hosseini, A.A. Gouda. "Drivers of Urban Sprawl in Two Large Middle-Eastern Countries." Human Geographies (2018).

A.A. Gouda, M. Hosseini, H.E. Masoumi. "The Status of Urban and Suburban Sprawl in Egypt and Iran." GeoScape (2016).

M. Hosseini, A. Gouda, H.E. Masoumi. "Urbanization Trends and Urban Planning Strategies in Three Major Middle Eastern Countries: Iran, Egypt, and Turkey." Revue Roumaine de Géographie (2016).