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Trajectory modelling had been the principal research area for understanding and anticipating human behaviour. Predicting the dynamic path by observing the agent and its surrounding environment are essential for applications such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Tin Lai , Weiming Zhi , Fabio Ramos

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

Human mobility is a key component of large-scale spatial-transmission models of infectious diseases. Correctly modeling and quantifying human mobility is critical for improving epidemic control policies, but may be hindered by incomplete…

Human motion prediction is key to understand social environments, with direct applications in robotics, surveillance, etc. We present a simple yet effective pedestrian trajectory prediction model aimed at pedestrians positions prediction in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Aleksey Postnikov , Aleksander Gamayunov , Gonzalo Ferrer

The precise prediction of human mobility has produced significant socioeconomic impacts, such as location recommendations and evacuation suggestions. However, existing methods suffer from limited generalization capability: unimodal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Junshu Dai , Yu Wang , Tongya Zheng , Wei Ji , Qinghong Guo , Ji Cao , Jie Song , Canghong Jin , Mingli Song

The ability to predict the future movements of other vehicles is a subconscious and effortless skill for humans and key to safe autonomous driving. Therefore, trajectory prediction for autonomous cars has gained a lot of attention in recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Benedikt Mersch , Thomas Höllen , Kun Zhao , Cyrill Stachniss , Ribana Roscher

Next location prediction is a key task in human mobility analysis, crucial for applications like smart city resource allocation and personalized navigation services. However, existing methods face two significant challenges: first, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuqian Wu , Yuhong Peng , Jiapeng Yu , Xiangyu Liu , Zeting Yan , Kang Lin , Weifeng Su , Bingqing Qu , Raymond Lee , Dingqi Yang

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of recent advancements in leveraging machine learning techniques, particularly Transformer models, for predicting human mobility patterns during epidemics. Understanding how people move during…

In the era of mobile computing, understanding human mobility patterns is crucial in order to better design protocols and applications. Many studies focus on different aspects of human mobility such as people's points of interests, routes,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Ivan Oliveira Nunes , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

Nowadays mobile communication is growing fast in the 5G communication industry. With the increasing capacity requirements and requirements for quality of experience, mobility prediction has been widely applied to mobile communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Donglin Wang , Qiuheng Zhou , Sanket Partani , Anjie Qiu , Hans D. Schotten

A widely accepted explanation for robots planning overcautious or overaggressive trajectories alongside human is that the crowd density exceeds a threshold such that all feasible trajectories are considered unsafe -- the freezing robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Muchen Sun , Peter Trautman , Todd Murphey

Motion prediction in unstructured environments is a difficult problem and is essential for safe and efficient human-robot space sharing and collaboration. In this work, we focus on manipulation movements in environments such as homes,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Philipp Kratzer , Niteesh Balachandra Midlagajni , Marc Toussaint , Jim Mainprice

Location and mobility patterns of individuals are important to environmental planning, societal resilience, public health, and a host of commercial applications. Mining telecommunication traffic and transactions data for such purposes is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Pedro Sanches , Eric-Oluf Svee , Markus Bylund , Benjamin Hirsch , Magnus Boman

Modeling human mobility has a wide range of applications from urban planning to simulations of disease spread. It is well known that humans spend 80% of their time indoors but modeling indoor human mobility is challenging due to three main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Amee Trivedi , Kate Silverstein , Emma Strubell , Mohit Iyyer , Prashant Shenoy

To tackle ever-increasing city traffic congestion problems, researchers have proposed deep learning models to aid decision-makers in the traffic control domain. Although the proposed models have been remarkably improved in recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hyunwook Lee , Cheonbok Park , Seungmin Jin , Hyeshin Chu , Jaegul Choo , Sungahn Ko

Understanding human mobility behavior is crucial for numerous applications, including crowd management, location-based recommendations, and the estimation of pandemic spread. Machine learning models can predict the Points of Interest (POIs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziyao Li , Shang-Ling Hsu , Cyrus Shahabi

Getting insights on human mobility patterns and being able to reproduce them accurately is of the utmost importance in a wide range of applications from public health, to transport and urban planning. Still the relationship between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-15 Maxime Lenormand , Juan Murillo Arias , Maxi San Miguel , José J. Ramasco

There is a contradiction at the heart of our current understanding of individual and collective mobility patterns. On one hand, a highly influential stream of literature on human mobility driven by analyses of massive empirical datasets…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-16 Laura Alessandretti , Ulf Aslak , Sune Lehmann

High capacity end-to-end approaches for human motion (behavior) prediction have the ability to represent subtle nuances in human behavior, but struggle with robustness to out of distribution inputs and tail events. Planning-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Liting Sun , Xiaogang Jia , Anca D. Dragan

Robots need models of human behavior for both inferring human goals and preferences, and predicting what people will do. A common model is the Boltzmann noisily-rational decision model, which assumes people approximately optimize a reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Andreea Bobu , Dexter R. R. Scobee , Jaime F. Fisac , S. Shankar Sastry , Anca D. Dragan