Inference of Urban Function Zone Based on Deep Neural Network

Abstract

With the rapid development of urbanization, more and more attention has been paid to the structure of urban function zone. Thus, it is of great significance to investigate urban function zone. In this paper, we introduced the deep neural network (DNN) to infer the urban function zone with a supervised classification approach, taking the Shenzhen city in China as a case. First of all, the urban road networks of Shenzhen city were gathered and selected appropriately. Then, the fifth level road networks were utilized to segment the study region. Second, the communication data of different times and points of interest (POI) were collected. Then, the fifteen factors influencing urban function zone were derived. In addition, the urban function zone was divided into five types and the labeled examples with fifteen influencing factors were chosen. Third, the labeled examples were employed to train the DNN with different hidden layers compared with random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM). The models were trained with the approach of five-fold cross validation, and the average training accuracy with five times is taken as the accuracy of models. Finally, this paper compared the accuracy. It's been shown in the results that DNN was the optimum model and achieved the highest accuracy. Therefore, our proposed method is an efficient approach to infer the urban function zone.