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A series of accidents caused by crowd within the last decades evoked a lot of scientific interest in modeling the movement of pedestrian crowds. Based on discrete element method, a granular dynamic model, in which human body is simplified…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-19 Peng Lin , Jian Ma , Siuming Lo

Crowd behavior understanding is crucial yet challenging across a wide range of applications, since crowd behavior is inherently determined by a sequential decision-making process based on various factors, such as the pedestrians' own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Haosheng Zou , Hang Su , Shihong Song , Jun Zhu

Robots that navigate through human crowds need to be able to plan safe, efficient, and human predictable trajectories. This is a particularly challenging problem as it requires the robot to predict future human trajectories within a crowd…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Anirudh Vemula , Katharina Muelling , Jean Oh

This article introduces a simulation platform to study complex crowd behavior in social context. The agent-based model is extended based on the social force model, and it mainly describes how agents interact with each other, and also with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-17 Peng Wang , Xiaoda Wang , Peter Luh , Neal Olderman , Christian Wilkie , Timo Korhonen

Simulating crowds requires controlling a very large number of trajectories and is usually performed using crowd motion algorithms for which appropriate parameter values need to be found. The study of the relation between parametric values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Beatriz Cabrero Daniel , Ricardo Marques , Ludovic Hoyet , Julien Pettré , Josep Blat

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

Detecting and recognizing human action in videos with crowded scenes is a challenging problem due to the complex environment and diversity events. Prior works always fail to deal with this problem in two aspects: (1) lacking utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Li Yuan , Yichen Zhou , Shuning Chang , Ziyuan Huang , Yunpeng Chen , Xuecheng Nie , Tao Wang , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

We conducted a simple experiment in which one pedestrian passed through a crowded area and measured the body-rotational angular velocity with commercial tablets. Then, we developed a new method for predicting crowd density by applying the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-20 Koki Nagao , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

In this paper we are interested in analyzing behaviour in crowded public places at the level of holistic motion. Our aim is to learn, without user input, strong scene priors or labelled data, the scope of "normal behaviour" for a particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Ognjen Arandjelović

In this survey we consider mathematical models and methods recently developed to control crowd dynamics, with particular emphasis on egressing pedestrians. We focus on two control strategies: The first one consists in using special agents,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-25 Giacomo Albi , Emiliano Cristiani , Lorenzo Pareschi , Daniele Peri

We focus on robot navigation in crowded environments. To navigate safely and efficiently within crowds, robots need models for crowd motion prediction. Building such models is hard due to the high dimensionality of multiagent domains and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sriyash Poddar , Christoforos Mavrogiannis , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

Recent advances in modeling and control of crowds of pedestrians are briefly surveyed in this paper. Possibilities of applying fractional calculus in the modeling of crowd of pedestrians have been shortly reviewed and discussed from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Ke-cai Cao , YangQuan Chen , Dan Stuart , Dong Yue

Simulation is a powerful tool to easily generate annotated data, and a highly desirable feature, especially in those domains where learning models need large training datasets. Machine learning and deep learning solutions, have proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Niccolò Bisagno , Nicola Garau , Antonio Luigi Stefani , Nicola Conci

Crowd movement simulation is crucial for pedestrian safety management and facility design. Data-driven models offer the potential to improve realism and predictive accuracy, but most are developed for a single scenario, limiting their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xuanwen Liang , Jiayu Chen , Eric Wai Ming Lee , Wei Xie

For robots to be a part of our daily life, they need to be able to navigate among crowds not only safely but also in a socially compliant fashion. This is a challenging problem because humans tend to navigate by implicitly cooperating with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Anirudh Vemula , Katharina Muelling , Jean Oh

In this article, we propose the detection of crowd anomalies through the extraction of information in the form of time series from video format using a multimodal approach. Through pattern recognition algorithms and segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Alejandro Dionis-Ros , Joan Vila-Francés , Rafael Magdalena-Benedicto , Fernando Mateo , Antonio J. Serrano-López

The escalating process of urbanization has raised concerns about incidents arising from overcrowding, necessitating a deep understanding of large human crowd behavior and the development of effective crowd management strategies. This study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Samson Worku , Pratik Mullick

To observe how individual behavior shapes a larger community's actions, agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) has been widely adopted by researchers in social sciences, economics, and epidemiology. While simulations can be run on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ann Nedime Nese Rende , Tolga Yilmaz , Özgür Ulusoy

Modeling realistic pedestrian trajectories requires accounting for both social interactions and environmental context, yet most existing approaches largely emphasize social dynamics. We propose \textbf{EnvSocial-Diff}: a diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bingxue Zhao , Qi Zhang , Hui Huang

Smart video sensors for applications related to surveillance and security are IOT-based as they use Internet for various purposes. Such applications include crowd behaviour monitoring and advanced decision support systems operating and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Antoine Rimboux , Rob Dupre , Thomas Lagkas , Panagiotis Sarigiannidis , Paolo Remagnino , Vasileios Argyriou