20 / 10 / 2026
Tuesday
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Booth and Poster will be on for display for 3 days at the Foyer until 22 Oct at 5pm.
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21 / 10 / 2026
Wednesday
- Sr Paul TSUI, Vice President, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS)
- Prof. Paulina WONG, President, Hong Kong GIS Association (HKGISA)
- Prof. Fenzhen SU, Chair, GISc Commission, International Geographical Union (IGU)
- Prof. Anthony G.O. YEH, Past President, Asia GIS Association
- Sr Raymond CHOI, Head of Spatial Data Office,
Development Bureau, The Government of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s
Republic of China
(Title: GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Development of Hong Kong)
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22 / 10 / 2026
Thursday
Chair: Prof Weifeng Li (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
PR01 Development of a Building Use Estimation Method Based on Open Data and AI Applicable to Developing Countries
Presenter: Mr. Takahito Shimizu (Tokyo City University, Japan)
Co-author: Yuki Akiyama
PR14 Micro-Scale Residential Satisfaction Mapping Using Building-Level Urban Attributes and Machine Learning
Presenter: Mr. Taiga Matsubara (Tokyo City University, Japan)
Co-author: Takahito Shimizu, Kotaro Mizutani, Yuki Akiyama)
PR44 Semantic Representation of Urban Space and Demographics in Latent Space: Alignment, Bias and Silence
Presenter: Ms. Xuan Li (Hanyang University, Korea)
Co-author: Sugie Lee
PR18 Transferable Building-Level Population Estimation Using Open Geospatial Data in Data-Scarce Regions
Presenter: Mr. Itsuki Yamamoto (Tokyo City University, Japan)
Co-author: Takahito Shimizu, Yuki Akiyama
PR10 Deep Analysis of Machine Learning Models in Intelligent Dasymetric Mapping for High-resolution Population Data in Viet Nam
Presenter: Dr. Quang Hung Bui (Vietnam National University, Vietnam)
Co-author: Le Viet Bach, Nguyen Thanh Thuy
Chair: Prof. Yan Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
PR40 D2T-Opt: Knowledge-Constrained LLMs for Demand-to-Task Spatial Optimization in Watershed Management
Presenter: Mr. Xingchen Fan (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research CAS, China)
Co-author: Chengzhi Qin, Liangjun Zhu
PR38 A GIS-Based Assessment of Biometeorological Conditions in Russia
Presenter: Mr. Timur Miriazov (Laboratory of Digital Demography FCTAS RAS, Russia)
PR39 Terrain and Land-Surface Structure as Controls on Snow Grain Size and Snow Pollution Patterns in the Chinese Altay Mountains
Presenter: Dr. Kelvin Keru Lu (Zhejiang University of Technology, China)
PR51 Identification of surface mining and assessment of ecological restoration effects using GEE and Sentinel-2 image data - A case study on Yangtze River watershed, China
Presenter: Ms. Zoey Zang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
PR20 Coastal Risk in Hong Kong: Distinguishing Exposure from Social Vulnerability
Presenter: Prof. Yan Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Zhen Wu
Chair: Dr. Junwei Jacob Zhang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR)
PR07 More movement, better wellbeing, or both? Examining age-specific pathways in digital self-management of chronic lower back pain
Presenter: Prof. Pui Yun Paulina Wong (Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Junwei Jacob Zhang, Chi Wai Cheung, Hung Chak Derrick Ho, Po Alex Leung, Shifeng Wu
PR46 Embedding Geographic Knowledge in Transformers Improves Cross-City Transfer of Station Ridership Models
Presenter: Dr. Shun Nakayama (Senshu University, Japan)
PR48 Natural Language Processing for Urban Transport Planning in a Rapidly Evolving AI Era
Presenter: Dr. Shuli Luo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Co-author: Xinlu Wu, Xiao Fu, Terry Yepeng Yao
PR55 Landscape Dynamics Around National Key Protected Cultural Relic Units of Ancient Architecture in China: Transitions and Heritage Designation Effects
Presenter: Mr. Shuaichen Yan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Jinfeng Xie, Fan Xue, Anthony Gar-On Yeh
PR08 Mapping the Economic Burden and Street-Level Drivers of Road Traffic Accidents in Hong Kong
Presenter: Dr. Junwei Jacob Zhang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Ka Hei Anson Yip, Pui Yun Paulina Wong
Chair: Dr. Wanglin Yan (Keio University, Japan)
PR09 Smart Earth Framework for Sustainable Development
Presenter: Prof. Chih-Hong Sun (National Taiwan University, Taipei)
PR12 Multimodal Large Language Models for Mobility-Based Demographic Reasoning
Presenter: Mr. Dejing Zhang (Tokyo City University, Japan)
Co-author: Zekun Cai, Yuki Akiyama, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Yingzhen Luo
PR36 From Model Knowledge to Modeling Transferability: A Domain-Aware Case–Model Network for Green and Low-Carbon Geospatial Modeling
Presenter: Mr. Tianyu Sheng (Nanjing Normal University, China)
Co-author: Min Chen
PR23 Building Shared Spatial Intelligence with an AI Facilitator Agent in Community Planning Workshops
Presenter: Dr. Wanglin Yan (Keio University, Japan)
Co-author: Akihiro Ob, Takahiro Kanamori, Shun Nakayama
Chair: Prof. Tsz Nam Chan (Shenzhen University, China)
PR33 Unravelling intra-urban spatiotemporal disparities in housing price dynamics: An infrastructural approach using interpretable machine-learning methods in Shenzhen, China
Presenter: Dr. Lirong Hu (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Shiliang Su, Shenjing He
PR42 Beyond Energy Consumption: Spatially Differentiating Energy Efficiency and Building Use Intensity for Urban Carbon Neutrality
Presenter: Mr. Jiwoong Jeong (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Co-author: Jeongseob Kim, Junhyeok Song, Hyunji Park
PR43 Mapping the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Commercial Building Transactions in Shrinking Cities
Presenter: Mr. Sanguk Han (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea)
Co-author: Jeongseob Kim
PR28 A probability-based framework for measuring sensitivity to the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP)
Presenter: Dr. Xiang Ye (Nanjing Normal University, China)
Co-author: Jiayi Chan
PR35 Large-scale Geospatial Analytics: Fast Method and Software Development
Presenter: Prof. Tsz Nam Chan (Shenzhen University, China)
Co-author: Dingming Wu
Chair: Prof. Fan Xue (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
PR11 Semantic Gating for Robust UAV Localization on LoD 2/3 City Models
Presenter: Mr. Xicheng Yang (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
Co-author: Zhanghao Chen, Fangli Guan
PR22 Knowledge-Enhanced Intelligent Detection of Levee Seepage Using UAV Visible-Infrared Imagery and a Large Vision-Language Model
Presenter: Ms. Wanxiu Zhang (Nanjing Normal University, China)
Co-author: Bin Hu, Jiarong Wu, Zhanbo Chen
PR58 AI Semantic and Instance Segmentation of Building Point Clouds for CIM-Ready As-Built Modeling
Presenter: Mr. Sou-Han Chan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Fan Xue, Longyong Wu, Anthony G.O. Yeh
PR26 Public Event-Induced Urban Mobility Restructuring for Origin-Destination Flow Inference Using Knowledge Graphs
Presenter: Ms. Keyu Lu (Sun Yat-sen University)
Co-author: Keyu Lu, Qiuping Li, Qiumeng Li, Suhong Zhou
PR52 Mapping the Barriers Network to Indoor Drone-based Building Inspections in Hong Kong: An Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and MICMAC Approach
Presenter: Prof. Fan Xue (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Chun Hei Chan
Chair: Prof. Ying Sylvia He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
PR04 Customized decision-making support per location's characteristics of spatial accessibility: A case study of emergency healthcare in New York City
Presenter: Dr. Jinwoo Park (Kyung Hee University, South Korea)
Co-author: Fangzheng Lyu, Alexander Michels, Ian Zhang, Shaowen Wang
PR05 Multimodal Mobility Reshapes Age Inequalities in Urban Green-Space Access
Presenter: Ms. Mingjie Duan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Xiaoyue Tan, Xiaolin Zhu, Jiacheng Guo, Chongyang Wang
PR32 Understanding the spatio-temporal variation in travel distance by mode, seasonality, age and gender: a comparison of two major Australian metropolitan areas
Presenter: Dr. Yibo Wang (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Co-author: Jonathan Olsen, Jonathan Corcoran, Lynette Cheah
PR41 Do Telehealth Platforms Reduce Spatial Inequality in Healthcare Access?
Presenter: Mr. Dakyum Lee (Hanyang University, South Korea)
Co-author: Junhyeon Kweon, Sugie Lee
PR31 Big geospatial data for urban mobility and travel behaviour research in smart cities
Presenter: Prof. Ying Sylvia He (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Sui Tao, Zhenzhen Wang, Shuli Luo
Chair: Prof. Xintao Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR)
PR15 The New Hong Kong Geocode and its Potential Applications in HK
Presenter: Ms. Olivia Kwok (Survey and Mapping Office, Lands Department, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Ho Chiu Elton Chan
PR34 Walkin'HK: Explore Your Nearby Walkable Zone
Presenter: Sr. Oengus Chun-To Lam, Sr. Tony Hoi-wai Wong (Survey and Mapping Office, Lands Department, HKSAR)
PR17 From Data to Intelligence: Unlocking Spatial Intelligence with Common Spatial Data Infrastructure
Presenter: Ms. Tammy Ho (Spatial Data Office, Development Bureau, HKSAR Government, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Vicky Chan, Janet Chiu
PR56 The Science of Urban Informatics
Presenter: Prof. Wenzhong Shi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Fan Shi, Anshu Zhang
PR59 Smart Cities and Common Spatial Infrastructure in HK
Presenter: Prof. Xintao Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR)
Chair: Prof. Hung Chak Ho (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
PR13 Too Hot to Walk? Evaluating Aging Equity Under Extreme Thermal Stress in Hilly and Complex Urban Environments
Presenter: Dr. Man Hei Jeffrey Chang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Hiu Wang Lau, Jean Woo, Eric Tsz-Chun Lai, Hung Chak Ho
PR30 Joint Impacts of Incense Burning on Thermal Comfort and Air Quality in Hong Kong's Dense Urban Environment
Presenter: Ms. Wenhui Cai (Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Paulina Pui Yun Wong, Qian Chayn Sun, Siqin Wang, Sissi Chen
PR45 Time-varying importance of urban form for the canopy-layer urban heat island: Evidence from hourly IoT sensor data and feature importance analysis in Seoul, South Korea
Presenter: Dr. Na Li (Hanyang University, South Korea)
Co-author: Sugie Lee
PR60 Digital Demographic Observatory: Mapping Demographic Heterogeneity through Web GIS and Big Data
Presenter: Dr. Vadim Bezverbny (Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
PR19 PM2.5 exposure among taxi drivers in a Chinese city: A rapid assessment with satellite-derived information and urban mobility data
Presenter: Prof. Hung Chak Ho (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Pengxiang Zhao
Chair: Dr. Yan Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
PR29 Building Facade Material Mapping Across Cities from Street-View Imagery via Training-Free Recognition and Cross-View Matching
Presenter: Mr. Jinhua Yu (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Co-author: Guangzhao Chen, Xiaoping Liu, Wenzhuo Luo
PR53 Urban Landscape Character Mapping Based on Semi-Supervised Graph Networks and Street View Images
Presenter: Mr. Jinfeng Xie (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Anthony G.O. Yeh
PR54 Accurate assessment of human-perceived window view openness using city information models and visual AI
Presenter: Ms. Siyuan Meng (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Fan Xue, Anthony G.O. Yeh
PR25 Constructing a Resource Network for Data–Model Associative Retrieval and Recommendation in Geographic Modeling
Presenter: Mr. Xinyong Li (Nanjing Normal University, China)
Co-author: Yuanqing He, Zizhuo Zhang, Zhiyi Zhu, Songshan Yue, Yongning Wen, Min Chen
PR27 Geospatial Foundation Model for Multi-Frequency and Cross-City Urban Noise Mapping
Presenter: Dr. Yan Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Co-author: Mei-Po Kwan
Panelists:
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- Prof. Michael GOODCHILD, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Prof. Deren LI, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Prof. John SHI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
- Prof. Wanglin YAN, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
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