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Accurate traffic participant prediction is the prerequisite for collision avoidance of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we predict pedestrians by emulating their own motion planning. From online observations, we infer a mixture density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Eike Rehder , Florian Wirth , Martin Lauer , Christoph Stiller

In this work, we present a transformer-based framework for predicting future pedestrian states based on clustered historical trajectory data. In previous studies, researchers propose enhancing pedestrian trajectory predictions by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Kleio Fragkedaki , Frank J. Jiang , Karl H. Johansson , Jonas Mårtensson

Identifying and quantifying factors influencing human decision making remains an outstanding challenge, impacting the performance and predictability of social and technological systems. In many cases, system failures are traced to human…

Since the past few decades, human trajectory forecasting has been a field of active research owing to its numerous real-world applications: evacuation situation analysis, deployment of intelligent transport systems, traffic operations, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Parth Kothari , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Predicting the behavior of road users, particularly pedestrians, is vital for safe motion planning in the context of autonomous driving systems. Traditionally, pedestrian behavior prediction has been realized in terms of forecasting future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Amir Rasouli , Tiffany Yau , Peter Lakner , Saber Malekmohammadi , Mohsen Rohani , Jun Luo

There is quickly growing literature on machine-learned models that predict human driving trajectories in road traffic. These models focus their learning on low-dimensional error metrics, for example average distance between model-generated…

Random walks and related spatial stochastic models have been used in a range of application areas including animal and plant ecology, infectious disease epidemiology, developmental biology, wound healing, and oncology. Classical random walk…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Michael J. Plank , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

This paper presents a new approach to crowd behaviour anomaly detection that uses a set of efficiently computed, easily interpretable, scene-level holistic features. This low-dimensional descriptor combines two features from the literature:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-17 M. Marsden , K. McGuinness , S. Little , N. E. O'Connor

Motion planning in uncertain environments like complex urban areas is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The aim of our research is to investigate how AVs can navigate crowded, unpredictable scenarios with multiple pedestrians…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Korbinian Moller , Truls Nyberg , Jana Tumova , Johannes Betz

We use ideas from distributed computing to study dynamic environments in which computational nodes, or decision makers, follow adaptive heuristics (Hart 2005), i.e., simple and unsophisticated rules of behavior, e.g., repeatedly "best…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-10-13 Aaron D. Jaggard , Michael Schapira , Rebecca N. Wright

Pedestrian groups are commonly found in crowds but research on their social aspects is comparatively lacking. To fill that void in literature, we study the dynamics of collision avoidance between pedestrian groups (in particular dyads) and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-31 Adrien Gregorj , Zeynep Yücel , Francesco Zanlungo , Claudio Feliciani , Takayuki Kanda

In an emergency situation, imitation of strategies of neighbours can lead to an order-disorder phase transition, where spatial clusters of pedestrians adopt the same strategy. We assume that there are two strategies, cooperating and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-03-12 P. Gawronski , K. Malarz , M. J. Krawczyk , J. Malinowski , A. Kupczak , W. Sikora , K. Kulakowski , J. Was , J. Kantelhardt

In this work a physical modelling framework is presented, describing the intelligent, non-local, and anisotropic behaviour of pedestrians. Its phenomenological basics and constitutive elements are detailed, and a qualitative analysis is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Luca Bruno , Andrea Tosin , Paolo Tricerri , Fiammetta Venuti

In this paper, we investigate disparities in pedestrian crossing behaviors within static and dynamic crowds through experimental analysis. First, qualitative trajectory observations revealed significant behavioral differences in static and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-19 Jinghui Wang , Yajuan Jiang , Xiaoying Zhang , Fangwei Deng , Wei Lv

Predicting the future trajectories of pedestrians is a challenging problem that has a range of application, from crowd surveillance to autonomous driving. In literature, methods to approach pedestrian trajectory prediction have evolved,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Simone Zamboni , Zekarias Tilahun Kefato , Sarunas Girdzijauskas , Noren Christoffer , Laura Dal Col

Navigating through dense human crowds remains a significant challenge for mobile robots. A key issue is the freezing robot problem, where the robot struggles to find safe motions and becomes stuck within the crowd. To address this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yufei Zhu , Shih-Min Yang , Martin Magnusson , Allan Wang

Understanding how pedestrians adjust their movement when interacting with autonomous vehicles (AVs) is essential for improving safety in mixed traffic. This study examines micro-level pedestrian behaviour during midblock encounters in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Rulla Al-Haideri , Bilal Farooq

Extensive research in pedestrian dynamics has primarily focused on crowded conditions and associated phenomena, such as lane formation, evacuation, etc. Several force-based models have been developed to predict the behavior in these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Kanika Jain , Shankar Prawesh , Indranil Saha Dalal , Anurag Tripathi

The influence of cohesion among members of dyads is investigated in scenarios characterized by uni-directional flow by means of a discrete model: a corridor and the egress from a room with a bottleneck of varying width are simulated. The…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Luca Crociani , Yiping Zeng , Andrea Gorrini , Giuseppe Vizzari , Weiguo Song

Human populations exhibit complex behaviors---characterized by long-range correlations and surges in activity---across a range of social, political, and technological contexts. Yet it remains unclear where these collective behaviors come…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-07 Christopher W. Lynn , Lia Papadopoulos , Daniel D. Lee , Danielle S. Bassett