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Crowd navigation has received increasing attention from researchers over the last few decades, resulting in the emergence of numerous approaches aimed at addressing this problem to date. Our proposed approach couples agent motion prediction…

Video-based high-density crowd analysis and prediction has been a long-standing topic in computer vision. It is notoriously difficult due to, but not limited to, the lack of high-quality data and complex crowd dynamics. Consequently, it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Feixiang He , Jiangbei Yue , Jialin Zhu , Armin Seyfried , Dan Casas , Julien Pettré , He Wang

This paper studies a stochastic model that describes the evolution of vehicle densities in a road network. It is consistent with the class of (deterministic) kinematic wave models, which describe traffic flows on the basis of conservation…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Michel Mandjes , Jaap Storm

The well-known Cucker-Smale model is a macroscopic system reflecting flocking, i.e. the alignment of velocities in a group of autonomous agents having mutual interactions. In the present paper, we consider the mean-field limit of that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi , Emmanuel Trélat

Mathematical models of motility are often based on random-walk descriptions of discrete individuals that can move according to certain rules. It is usually the case that large masses concentrated in small regions of space have a great…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-23 Carles Falcó

In the spirit of the macroscopic crowd motion models with hard congestion (i.e. a strong density constraint $\rho\leq 1$) introduced by Maury {\it et al.} some years ago, we analyze a variant of the same models where diffusion of the agents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-03 Alpár Richárd Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio

Crowd analysis and management is a challenging problem to ensure public safety and security. For this purpose, many techniques have been proposed to cope with various problems. However, the generalization capabilities of these techniques is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tauseef Ali , Ahmed B. Altamimi

In this paper a new multiscale modeling technique is proposed. It relies on a recently introduced measure-theoretic approach, which allows to manage the microscopic and the macroscopic scale under a unique framework. In the resulting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

Congestion games model a wide variety of real-world resource congestion problems, such as selfish network routing, traffic route guidance in congested areas, taxi fleet optimization and crowd movement in busy areas. However, existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Asrar Ahmed , Pradeep Varakantham , Shih-Fen Cheng

These notes are devoted to a summary on the mean-field limit of large ensembles of interacting particles with applications in swarming models. We first make a summary of the kinetic models derived as continuum versions of second order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 J. A. Carrillo , Y. -P. Choi , M. Hauray

This article is on collective phenomena in pedestrian dynamics during the assembling and dispersal phases of gatherings. To date pedestrian dynamics have been primarily studied in the natural and engineering sciences. Pedestrians are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-05 Anna Sieben , Jette Schumann , Armin Seyfried

Over the past few years, researchers have presented many different applications for convolutional neural networks, including those for the detection and recognition of objects from images. The desire to understand our own nature has always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Gergely Csönde , Yoshihide Sekimoto , Takehiro Kashiyama

We consider the problem of using location queries to monitor the congestion potential among a collection of entities moving, with bounded speed but otherwise unpredictably, in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Uncertainty in entity locations…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-05-09 William Evans , David Kirkpatrick

Sets of moving entities can form groups which travel together for significant amounts of time. Tracking such groups is an important analysis task in a variety of areas, such as wildlife ecology, urban transport, or sports analysis.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Max van Mulken , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

We are interested in developing an automated system for detection of organized movements in human crowds. Computer vision algorithms can extract information from videos of crowded scenes and automatically detect and track groups of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Alexandre Matov

In this paper we deal with the study of travel flows and patterns of people in large populated areas. Information about the movements of people is extracted from coarse-grained aggregated cellular network data without tracking mobile…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-20 Caterina Balzotti , Andrea Bragagnini , Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

Simulation models for pedestrian crowds are a ubiquitous tool in research and industry. It is crucial that the parameters of these models are calibrated carefully and ultimately it will be of interest to compare competing models to decide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Nikolai Bode

This paper deals with the early results of a new model of pedestrian flow, conceived within a measure-theoretical framework. The modeling approach consists in a discrete-time Eulerian macroscopic representation of the system via a family of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

We propose an entropic geometrical model of psycho-physical crowd dynamics (with dissipative crowd kinematics), using Feynman action-amplitude formalism that operates on three synergetic levels: macro, meso and micro. The intent is to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-11-27 Vladimir G. Ivancevic , Darryn J. Reid

This article develops mathematical formalisms and provides numerical methods for studying the evolution of measures in nonsmooth dynamical systems using the continuity equation. The nonsmooth dynamical system is described by an evolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Saroj Prasad Chhatoi , Aneel Tanwani , Didier Henrion