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Although cooperation is central to the organisation of many social systems, relatively little is known about cooperation in situations of collective emergency. When groups of people flee from a danger such as a burning building or a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-20 Mehdi Moussaid , Mareike Trauernicht

The availability of new data sources on human mobility is opening new avenues for investigating the interplay of social networks, human mobility and dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading. Here we analyze data on the time-resolved…

Several simulation environments exist for the simulation of large-scale evacuations of buildings, ships, or other enclosed spaces. These offer sophisticated tools for the study of human behaviour, the recreation of environmental factors…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2008-05-06 Peter J. Harding , Martyn Amos , Steve Gwynne

We present in this paper the behavior of an artificial agent who is a member of a crowd. The behavior is based on the social comparison theory, as well as the trajectory mapping towards an agent's goal considering the agent's field of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Francisco Enrique Vicente G. Castro , Jaderick P. Pabico

Pedestrians are often encountered walking in the company of some social relations, rather than alone. The social groups thus formed, in variable proportions depending on the context, are not randomly organised but exhibit distinct features,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-29 Alexandre Nicolas , Fadratul Hafinaz

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

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

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 work, using the theory of first-order macroscopic crowd models, we introduce a compartmental advection-diffusion model, describing the spatio-temporal dynamics of a population in different human behaviors (alert, panic and control)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-12 K. Khalil , V. Lanza , D. Manceau , M. A. Aziz-Alaoui , D. Provitolo

Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works address the problem by predicting individual trajectories and considering surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya , Paul Henderson , Marwa Mahmoud

We present a novel procedural framework to generate an arbitrary number of labeled crowd videos (LCrowdV). The resulting crowd video datasets are used to design accurate algorithms or training models for crowded scene understanding. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ernest Cheung , Tsan Kwong Wong , Aniket Bera , Xiaogang Wang , Dinesh Manocha

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…

Transport in crowded, complex environments occurs across many spatial scales. Geometric restrictions can hinder the motion of individuals and, combined with crowding between individuals, can have drastic effects on global transport…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniel B. Wilson , Francis G. Woodhouse , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

Identifying factors that affect human decision making and quantifying their influence remain essential and challenging tasks for the design and implementation of social and technological communication systems. We report results of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-02 Chantal Nguyen , Fangqiu Han , Kimberly J. Schlesinger , Izzeddin Gür , Jean M. Carlson

Crowd simulation is a central topic in several fields including graphics. To achieve high-fidelity simulations, data has been increasingly relied upon for analysis and simulation guidance. However, the information in real-world data is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feixiang He , Yuanhang Xiang , Xi Zhao , He Wang

Human crowds exhibit a wide range of interesting patterns, and measuring them is of great interest in areas ranging from psychology and social science to civil engineering. While \textit{in situ} measurements of human crowd patterns require…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-29 Zexu Li , Lei Fang

Ultra-dense crowds, in which physical contact between people cannot be avoided, pose major safety concerns. Nevertheless, the underlying dynamics driving their collective behaviours remain poorly understood. Existing dense crowd models,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-12 Thomas Chatagnon , Mohcine Chraibi , Julien Pettré , Armin Seyfried , Antoine Tordeux

In recent years, crowd analysis is important for applications such as smart cities, intelligent transportation system, customer behavior prediction, and visual surveillance. Understanding the characteristics of the individual motion in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wenxi Liu , Yuanlong Yu , Chun-Yang Zhang , Genggeng Liu , Naixue Xiong

Pushes, falls, stampedes, and crushes are safety hazards that emerge from the collective motion of crowds, but might be avoided by better design and guidance. While pedestrian dynamics are now getting better understood on the whole, complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-18 Chuan-Zhi Thomas Xie , Tie-Qiao Tang , Alexandre Nicolas

Understanding and modeling the dynamics of pedestrian crowds can help with designing and increasing the safety of civil facilities. A key feature of crowds is its intrinsic stochasticity, appearing even under very diluted conditions, due to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-22 Alessandro Corbetta , Chung-min Lee , Roberto Benzi , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi