Spatial Data Science Symposium: Thematic Session

Multimodal Social Sensing: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Geospatial and Social Processes

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Bernd Resch, IT:U; Dr. Shaily Gandhi, IT:U

Description

Social sensing as an established field of research has traditionally focused on analysing social media posts, mobile phone records, or other types of user-generated data. Most research efforts have performed unimodal analysis, i.e., deriving patterns from a single type of data characteristic. This session explores new ways of analysing multiple modalities of different data sources in joint, machine learning approaches, focusing on spatially explicit ML, in order to generate deeper insights into geospatial and social processes.

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