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Characterizing human mobility patterns is essential for understanding human behaviors and the interactions with socioeconomic and natural environment. With the continuing advancement of location and Web 2.0 technologies, location-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Feixiong Luo , Guofeng Cao , Kevin Mulligan , Xiang Li

Profiting from the emergence of web-scale social data sets, numerous recent studies have systematically explored human mobility patterns over large populations and large time scales. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to…

The statistical properties of human mobility have been studied in the framework of complex systems physics. Taking advantage from the new datasets made available by the information and communication technologies, the distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Chiara Mizzi , Alessandro Fabbri , Giulio Colombini , Flavio Bertini , Armando Bazzani

Fine population distribution both in space and in time is crucial for epidemic management, disaster prevention,urban planning and more. Human mobility data have a great potential for mapping population distribution at a high level of…

Applications · Statistics 2020-06-25 Xiang Liu , Philo Pöllmann

We revisit the longstanding question of how physical structures in urban landscapes influence crime. Leveraging machine learning-based matching techniques to control for demographic composition, we estimate the effects of several types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ziyao Cui , Erick Jiang , Nicholas Sortisio , Haiyan Wang , Eric Chen , Cynthia Rudin

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

Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobility patterns is essential for a variety of applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Abdallah Lakhdari , Amani Abusafia , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

This paper utilizes statistical data from various open datasets in Calgary to to uncover patterns and insights for community crimes, disorders, and traffic incidents. Community attributes like demographics, housing, and pet registration…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Zack Dewis , Apratim Sen , Jeffrey Wong , Yujia Zhang

This chapter examines the possibility to analyze and compare human activities in an urban environment based on the detection of mobile phone usage patterns. Thanks to an unprecedented collection of counter data recording the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-18 S. Grauwin , S. Sobolevsky , S. Moritz , I. Gódor , C. Ratti

Crime hotspot prediction is critical for ensuring urban safety and effective law enforcement, it remains challenging due to complex spatial dependencies that are inherent in criminal activities. The traditional approaches use classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tehreem Zubair , Syeda Kisaa Fatima , Noman Ahmed , Asifullah Khan

Recently humanity has just crossed an important landmark in its history with the majority of people now living in large cities. This population concentration is capable of boosting the growth of positive indicators such as innovation, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-19 Carlos Caminha

Thanks to the diffusion of the Internet of Things, nowadays it is possible to sense human mobility almost in real time using unconventional methods (e.g., number of bikes in a bike station). Due to the diffusion of such technologies, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Marco Cardia , Massimiliano Luca , Luca Pappalardo

Crowd navigation has received increasing attention from researchers over the last few decades, resulting in the emergence of numerous approaches aimed at addressing this problem to date. Our proposed approach couples agent motion prediction…

User profiling and region analysis are two tasks of significant commercial value. However, in practical applications, modeling different features typically involves four main steps: data preparation, data processing, model establishment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ruixing Zhang , Liangzhe Han , Leilei Sun , Yunqi Liu , Jibin Wang , Weifeng Lv

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is essential for various applications in active traffic management, urban planning, traffic control, crowd management, and autonomous driving, aiming to enhance traffic safety and efficiency. Accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Rei Tamaru , Pei Li , Bin Ran

The pervasive use of new mobile devices has allowed a better characterization in space and time of human concentrations and mobility in general. Besides its theoretical interest, describing mobility is of great importance for a number of…

Nowadays as the world population has become more interconnected and is relying on faster transportation methods, simplified connections and shorter commuting times, we witness a rapid increase in human mobility. In this situation unveiling…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Karim Keramat Jahromi

Predicting pedestrian movement is critical for human behavior analysis and also for safe and efficient human-agent interactions. However, despite significant advancements, it is still challenging for existing approaches to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Pei Xu , Jean-Bernard Hayet , Ioannis Karamouzas

Understanding human mobility from a microscopic point of view may represent a fundamental breakthrough for the development of a statistical physics for cognitive systems and it can shed light on the applicability of macroscopic statistical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-12 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Mirko Degli Esposti , Sandro Rambaldi

Crowd monitoring and analysis in mass events are highly important technologies to support the security of attending persons. Proposed methods based on terrestrial or airborne image/video data often fail in achieving sufficiently accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Roland Perko , Thomas Schnabel , Gerald Fritz , Alexander Almer , Lucas Paletta