Connecting Senses

This work asks how smell and vision interact in everyday urban perception. It builds from earlier smellscape work based on geosocial media, but shifts the evidence toward street view imagery and survey-based smell expectations.

Using Mapillary imagery from New York City, we extract visual cues from street scenes and examine how these cues relate to perceived smell categories such as nature, food, and transportation-related smells. The project is part of a broader effort to make urban sensory experiences more visible and measurable, especially in contexts where conventional urban analytics still privileges what can be seen over what can be felt, smelled, or remembered.

Links: Project page · Publication page · https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.70046