Topics of interest

Suggested topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Spatial AI

Generative AI for spatial reasoning and simulation
Spatial foundation models
Causal reasoning in space and time
Spatial machine learning and explainability
Privacy and ethics
Spatial reasoning in robotics

Big spatial data

Spatial and spatio-temporal analysis
Query processing and optimization
Spatial data mining, pattern analysis and knowledge discovery
Spatio-temporal data management
Spatial decision support
Spatial data quality and uncertainty
Geo-entity linkage, geo-enrichment
Distributed and parallel algorithms
Geospatial architectures and middleware
GPU and novel hardware solutions

Pervasive computing and internet of spatial things

Localization and tracking indoors/outdoors
Contact tracing
Location-based services
Spatio-temporal sensor networks
Traffic telematics
Mobile systems and vehicular ad hoc networks

Spatial data acquisition, integration, processing

Standardization and interoperability
Earth observation and satellite data processing
Computational geometry and computer graphics
Image and video understanding
Spatial, geo-social and trajectory Simulation
Spatio-temporal stream processing

Spatial search

Geographic information retrieval
Human computer interaction and visualization
Similarity searching
Spatial data structures and algorithms
Spatial modeling and reasoning
Spatio-textual searching

Spatial intelligence at work

Intelligent transportation and sustainable mobility
Autonomous vehicles
Spatial knowledge graphs
Epidemiology and health
Cyber and physical security
Smart cities and spaces
Geospatial computer vision applications
Location business intelligence
Personalized geospatial recommendation systems