2024 ACM Sigspatial GeoAI Workshop Program

Time	Title	Speaker/Author
8:30-8:40 AM	Opening Remarks
8:45-9:00 AM	Cross-Lingual Clustering Using Large Language Models	Nicole Schneider, Avik Das, Kent O’Sullivan and Hanan Samet
9:00 – 9:15 AM	Evaluation of Code LLMs on Geospatial Code Generation	Piotr Gramacki, Bruno Martins and Piotr Szymański
9:15 – 9:30 AM	Text2Seg: Zero-shot Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation via Text-Guided Visual Foundation Models	Jielu Zhang, Zhongliang Zhou, Gengchen Mai, Mengxuan Hu, Zihan Guan, Sheng Li and Lan Mu
9:30 AM-9:45 AM	Leveraging Large Language Models for Generating Labeled Mineral Site Record Linkage Data	Jiyoon Pyo and Yao-Yi Chiang
9:45 AM-10:00 AM	Task Explicity Matters in Prompting Large Multimodal Models for Spatial Planning Tasks	Ivan Majic, Zhangyu Wang, Krzysztof Janowicz and Mina Karimi
10:00-10:30 AM	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 AM	Keynote: Advancing GeoAI: Harnessing Google Gemini for Geospatial Data Exploration and SAM2 for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation	Dr Qiusheng Wu, Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM	Self-supervised Pretraining with Edge Guidance for Building Damage Assessment	Songxi Yang, Bo Peng, Tang Sui and Qunying Huang
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	Leveraging Large Multimodal Models to Augment Image-Based Building Damage Assessment	Sravan Jayati, Eric Choi, Shawn Newsam and Henry Burton
12:00-1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 – 1:45 PM	Multivariate Testing of Sampling Techniques to Address Class Imbalance in Building Use Type Classification	Daniel Adams, Taylor Hauser, Lexie Yang and Peter Li
1:45 – 2:00 PM	Demo2Vec: Learning Region Embedding with Demographic Information	Ya Wen and Yulun Zhou
2:00 – 2:15 PM	Enhancing GeoAI and location encoding with spatial point pattern statistics	Sizhe Wang and Wenwen Li
2:15 – 2:30 PM	MiTREE: Multi-input Transformer Ecoregion Encoder for Species Distribution Modelling	Theresa Chen and Yao-Yi Chiang
2:30 -3:00PM	Coffee break
3:00-3:15 PM	Edge Activating Module: Learning edge-to-edge features for mobility flow generation	Sheng Wang and Di Zhu
3:15 – 3:30 PM	Encoding Agent Trajectories as Representations with Sequence Transformers	Athanasios Tsiligkaridis, Nicholas Kalinowski, Zhongheng Li and Elizabeth Hou
3:30 – 3:45 PM	Road Networks Matching Supercharged With Embeddings	Hari Krishna Gadi, Lu Liu and Liqiu Meng
3:45 – 4:00 PM	Geometric Feature Enhanced Knowledge Graph Embedding and Spatial Reasoning	Lei Hu, Wenwen Li and Yunqiang Zhu
4:00 – 4:15 PM	Neural process for uncertainty-aware geospatial modeling	Guiye Li and Guofeng Cao
4:15 – 4:30 PM	Closing Remarks	Workshop organizers