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Networking research, especially focusing on human mobility, has evolved significantly in the last two decades and now relies on collection and analyzing larger datasets. The increasing sizes of datasets are enabled by larger automated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Leonardo Tonetto , Pauline Kister , Nitinder Mohan , Jörg Ott

Large-scale human mobility datasets play increasingly critical roles in many algorithmic systems, business processes and policy decisions. Unfortunately there has been little focus on understanding bias and other fundamental shortcomings of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Katinka den Nijs , Elisa Omodei , Vedran Sekara

With people constantly migrating to different urban areas, our mobility needs for work, services and leisure are transforming rapidly. The changing urban demographics pose several challenges for the efficient management of transit services.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-08 Trivik Verma , Mikhail Sirenko , Itto Kornecki , Scott Cunningham , Nuno AM Araújo

Urban anomalies may result in loss of life or property if not handled properly. Automatically alerting anomalies in their early stage or even predicting anomalies before happening are of great value for populations. Recently, data-driven…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Mingyang Zhang , Tong Li , Yue Yu , Yong Li , Pan Hui , Yu Zheng

Urban spatial-temporal flows prediction is of great importance to traffic management, land use, public safety, etc. Urban flows are affected by several complex and dynamic factors, such as patterns of human activities, weather, events and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Peng Xie , Tianrui Li , Jia Liu , Shengdong Du , Xin Yang , Junbo Zhang

The importance of human mobility analyses is growing in both research and practice, especially as applications for urban planning and mobility rely on them. Aggregate statistics and visualizations play an essential role as building blocks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Alexandra Kapp , Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Helena Mihaljević , Florian Tschorsch

Recent mobility scaling research, using new data sources, often relies on aggregated data alone. Hence, these studies face difficulties characterizing the influence of factors such as transportation mode on mobility patterns. This paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-07 Galen Wilkerson , Ramin Khalili , Stefan Schmid

Smartness in smart cities is achieved by sensing phenomena of interest and using them to make smart decisions. Since the decision makers may not own all the necessary sensing infrastructures, crowdsourced sensing, can help collect important…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Raj Gaire , Ratan K. Ghosh , Jongkil Kim , Alexander Krumpholz , Rajiv Ranjan , R. K. Shyamasundar , Surya Nepal

Pedestrian GPS data are key to a better understanding of micro-mobility and micro-behaviour within a neighbourhood. These data can bring new insights into walkability and livability in the context of urban sustainability. However,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-14 Ferran Larroya , Roger Paez , Manuela Valtchanova , Josep Perelló

Multiple people tracking is a key problem for many applications such as surveillance, animation or car navigation, and a key input for tasks such as activity recognition. In crowded environments occlusions and false detections are common,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Laura Leal-Taixé

Understanding the complex behavior of pedestrians walking in crowds is a challenge for both science and technology. In particular, obtaining reliable models for crowd dynamics, capable of exhibiting qualitatively and quantitatively the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-12 Alessandro Corbetta , Luca Bruno , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi

The increasing application of social and human-enabled systems in people's daily life from one side and from the other side the fast growth of mobile and smart phones technologies have resulted in generating tremendous amount of data, also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Mohammad Allahbakhsh , Saeed Arbabi , Hamid-Reza Motahari-Nezhad , Boualem Benatallah

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 regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinyu Chen , Qi Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Nina Cao , HanQin Cai , Jinhua Zhao

Individual-level human mobility prediction has emerged as a significant topic of research with applications in infectious disease monitoring, child, and elderly care. Existing studies predominantly focus on the microscopic aspects of human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yueyang Liu , Lance Kennedy , Ruochen Kong , Joon-Seok Kim , Andreas Züfle

Human mobility prediction is vital for urban planning, transportation optimization, and personalized services. However, the inherent randomness, non-uniform time intervals, and complex patterns of human mobility, compounded by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chonghua Han , Yuan Yuan , Yukun Liu , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Yong Li

Whether in search of better trade opportunities or escaping wars, humans have always been on the move. For almost a century, mathematical models of human mobility have been instrumental in the quantification of commuting patterns and…

In recent years, with the continuous advancement of deep learning and the emergence of large-scale human motion datasets, human motion prediction technology has gradually gained prominence in various fields such as human-computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tenghao Deng , Yan Sun

Researchers face the trade-off between publishing mobility data along with their papers while simultaneously protecting the privacy of the individuals. In addition to the fundamental anonymization process, other techniques, such as spatial…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Gergő Pintér

The increasing urbanization process we have been witnessing in the last decades is accompanied by a significant increase in traffic congestion in cities around the world. The effect of the congestion is represented in the enormous time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-01 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal