Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Tang, Xiaoya, Yue, Xiaohe, Mane, Heran, Li, Dapeng, Nguyen, Quynh, Tasdizen, Tolga
Formato: Preprint
Publicado: 2026
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06443
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
_version_ 1866911366065946624
author Tang, Xiaoya
Yue, Xiaohe
Mane, Heran
Li, Dapeng
Nguyen, Quynh
Tasdizen, Tolga
author_facet Tang, Xiaoya
Yue, Xiaohe
Mane, Heran
Li, Dapeng
Nguyen, Quynh
Tasdizen, Tolga
contents A substantial body of health research demonstrates a strong link between neighborhood environments and health outcomes. Recently, there has been increasing interest in leveraging advances in computer vision to enable large-scale, systematic characterization of neighborhood built environments. However, the generalizability of vision models across fundamentally different domains remains uncertain, for example, transferring knowledge from ImageNet to the distinct visual characteristics of Google Street View (GSV) imagery. In applied fields such as social health research, several critical questions arise: which models are most appropriate, whether to adopt unsupervised training strategies, what training scale is feasible under computational constraints, and how much such strategies benefit downstream performance. These decisions are often costly and require specialized expertise. In this paper, we answer these questions through empirical analysis and provide practical insights into how to select and adapt foundation models for datasets with limited size and labels, while leveraging larger, unlabeled datasets through unsupervised training. Our study includes comprehensive quantitative and visual analyses comparing model performance before and after unsupervised adaptation.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2601_06443
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle How to Build Robust, Scalable Models for GSV-Based Indicators in Neighborhood Research
Tang, Xiaoya
Yue, Xiaohe
Mane, Heran
Li, Dapeng
Nguyen, Quynh
Tasdizen, Tolga
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
A substantial body of health research demonstrates a strong link between neighborhood environments and health outcomes. Recently, there has been increasing interest in leveraging advances in computer vision to enable large-scale, systematic characterization of neighborhood built environments. However, the generalizability of vision models across fundamentally different domains remains uncertain, for example, transferring knowledge from ImageNet to the distinct visual characteristics of Google Street View (GSV) imagery. In applied fields such as social health research, several critical questions arise: which models are most appropriate, whether to adopt unsupervised training strategies, what training scale is feasible under computational constraints, and how much such strategies benefit downstream performance. These decisions are often costly and require specialized expertise. In this paper, we answer these questions through empirical analysis and provide practical insights into how to select and adapt foundation models for datasets with limited size and labels, while leveraging larger, unlabeled datasets through unsupervised training. Our study includes comprehensive quantitative and visual analyses comparing model performance before and after unsupervised adaptation.
title How to Build Robust, Scalable Models for GSV-Based Indicators in Neighborhood Research
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06443