1. DURAARK Ujwal Kumar Gadiraju

2. Camillo Sitte  Main works are “an aesthetic criticism” of 19th century urbanism. “City Planning according to artistic principles.”

3. Space Syntax Built Environment Form follows function VS Ornamentalism

4. What do people think about buildings? (On the way)/(at) home, work, play. Buildings invoke feelings. Research has established that buildings shape the built environment. Built environment influences various aspects within a community.

5. Survey: Pursuit of Ground Truth via Crowdsourcing Building Types - Skyscrapers - Bridges - Churches - Halls - Airports Emerging factors : - Historic importance - Affect on/of the surroundings/built environment - Materials used - Size of the building/structure - Personal experiences - Level of Details Emerging factors : For example : - Ease of access to airport - Efficiency of movement/ processing inside airport - General design & Appearance

6. Crowdsourcing with Caution  Gold Standard to detect malicious workers or bots.  Images presented with same resolution and dimensions [Chu et al.].  Avoid bias by using images from Wikimedia Commons. Chu, Wei-Ta, Yu-Kuang Chen, and Kuan-Ta Chen. "Size does matter: how image size affects aesthetic perception?." Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia. ACM, 2013.

7. Emerging Influential Factors

8. Processing pipeline for automated ranking of buildings

9. Example Dataset Characteristics

10. Patterns for well-perceived architectural structures

11. Some results... Performance Comparison of different Ranking Models for Halls

12. Some results... Performance Comparison of different Ranking Models for Halls

13. Most well-received architectural styles  Gothic Revival  Romanesque  Gothic

14. Visualization-Interactive Map

15. Resulting Knowledge Base (exposed as public Linked Data) Example: (The Grandmaster's Palace, Malta)