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Daniel G. Aliaga is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, focusing primarily on Environmental Science, Computer Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these areas, Aliaga has contributed extensively across multiple subfields, including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

Aliaga's published work covers a range of topics, reflecting interdisciplinary applications of computer science and environmental studies. The main themes in their research include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Automated Road and Building Extraction
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods

The scientist has authored numerous papers that contribute to understanding urban and environmental systems by leveraging computational models and data-driven approaches. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Modeling Large-Scale Heatwave by Incorporating Enhanced Urban Representation," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Deep learning-based urban morphology for city-scale environmental modeling," 2023, PNAS Nexus
  • "GLObal Building heights for Urban Studies (UT-GLOBUS) for city- and street- scale urban simulations: Development and first applications," 2024, Scientific Data
  • "Impact of green roofs on heavy rainfall in tropical, coastal urban area," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Generative Building Feature Estimation From Satellite Images," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Many of Aliaga's collaborations have resulted in repeated partnerships, indicating ongoing research relationships with other experts. Frequent co-authors include Dev Niyogi, Pratiman Patel, He Liu, Sajad Jamshidi, and Raghu Nadimpalli.

The venues in which Aliaga publishes reflect a broad interdisciplinary engagement, including prominent outlets such as arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Visual Computer, Computer Graphics Forum, and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Best Publications

  • A Survey of Urban Reconstruction

    P. Musialski;P. Musialski;P. Wonka;P. Wonka;D. G. Aliaga;M. Wimmer

  • MMR: an interactive massive model rendering system using geometric and image-based acceleration

    Daniel Aliaga;Jon Cohen;Andrew Wilson;Eric Baker

  • Modelling the appearance and behaviour of urban spaces

    Carlos A. Vanegas;Daniel G. Aliaga;Peter Wonka;Pascal Müller

  • Urban sensing: Using smartphones for transportation mode classification

    Dongyoun Shin;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bige Tunçer;Stefan Müller Arisona

  • Building reconstruction using manhattan-world grammars

    Carlos A. Vanegas;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes

  • Interactive sketching of urban procedural models

    Gen Nishida;Ignacio Garcia-Dorado;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes

  • Inverse design of urban procedural models

    Carlos A. Vanegas;Ignacio Garcia-Dorado;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes

  • Style Grammars for Interactive Visualization of Architecture

    D.G. Aliaga;P.A. Rosen;D.R. Bekins

  • Plenoptic stitching: a scalable method for reconstructing 3D interactive walk throughs

    Daniel G. Aliaga;Ingrid Carlbom

  • Inverse Procedural Modeling by Automatic Generation of L‐systems

    O. Št'ava;B. Beneš;R. Měch;D. G. Aliaga

  • Interactive example-based urban layout synthesis

    Daniel G. Aliaga;Carlos A. Vanegas;Bedrich Benes

  • An object-oriented framework for the integration of interactive animation techniques

    Robert C. Zeleznik;D. Brookshire Conner;Matthias M. Wloka;Daniel G. Aliaga

  • Interactive design of urban spaces using geometrical and behavioral modeling

    Carlos A. Vanegas;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes;Paul A. Waddell

  • Sea of images

    D.G. Aliaga;T. Funkhouser;D. Yanovsky;I. Carlbom

  • Hybrid simplification: combining multi-resolution polygon and point rendering

    Jonathan D. Cohen;Daniel G. Aliaga;Weiqiang Zhang

  • Automatic image placement to provide a guaranteed frame rate

    Daniel G. Aliaga;Anselmo Lastra

  • Accurate catadioptric calibration for real-time pose estimation in room-size environments

    D.G. Aliaga

  • Architectural walkthroughs using portal textures

    Daniel G. Aliaga;Anselmo A. Lastra

  • Procedural Generation of Parcels in Urban Modeling

    Carlos A. Vanegas;Tom Kelly;Basil Weber;Jan Halatsch

  • Visualization of complex models using dynamic texture-based simplification

    Daniel G. Aliaga

Frequent Co-Authors

Bedrich Benes
Bedrich Benes Purdue University West Lafayette
Manuel M. Oliveira
Manuel M. Oliveira Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Funkhouser
Thomas Funkhouser Google (United States)
Peter Wonka
Peter Wonka King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Paul Waddell
Paul Waddell University of California, Berkeley
Luc Van Gool
Luc Van Gool Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT)
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Rao S. Govindaraju
Rao S. Govindaraju Purdue University West Lafayette
Indrajeet Chaubey
Indrajeet Chaubey University of Connecticut

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