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Crowd density estimation is a well-known computer vision task aimed at estimating the density distribution of people in an image. The main challenge in this domain is the reliance on fine-grained location-level annotations, (i.e. points…

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Accurately measuring street dimensions is essential to evaluating how their design influences both travel behavior and safety. However, gathering street-level information at city scale with precision is difficult given the quantity and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-28 Marcel Moran , Arunav Gupta , Jiali Qian , Debra Laefer

Computer vision, particularly vehicle and pedestrian identification is critical to the evolution of autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, and video surveillance. Current traffic monitoring systems confront major difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Md Nahid Sadik , Tahmim Hossain , Faisal Sayeed

We present a pedestrian tracking algorithm, DensePeds, that tracks individuals in highly dense crowds (greater than 2 pedestrians per square meter). Our approach is designed for videos captured from front-facing or elevated cameras. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Rohan Chandra , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

Recently, pedestrian behavior research has shifted towards machine learning based methods and converged on the topic of modeling pedestrian interactions. For this, a large-scale dataset that contains rich information is needed. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Allan Wang , Abhijat Biswas , Henny Admoni , Aaron Steinfeld

This work aims to evaluate people's perception regarding geometric features, personalities and emotions characteristics in virtual humans. For this, we use as a basis, a dataset containing the tracking files of pedestrians captured from…

Vision-based automatic counting of people has widespread applications in intelligent transportation systems, security, and logistics. However, there is currently no large-scale public dataset for benchmarking approaches on this problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 ShiJie Sun , Naveed Akhtar , HuanSheng Song , ChaoYang Zhang , JianXin Li , Ajmal Mian

Understanding how people move in the urban area is important for solving urbanization issues, such as traffic management, urban planning, epidemic control, and communication network improvement. Leveraging recent availability of large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Chau Yuen , Bige Tunçer , Erik Wilhelm

Identifying human behaviors is a challenging research problem due to the complexity and variation of appearances and postures, the variation of camera settings, and view angles. In this paper, we try to address the problem of human behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Eissa Jaber Alreshidi , Mohammad Bilal

Physical activities and social interactions are essential activities that ensure a healthy lifestyle. Public open spaces (POS), such as parks, plazas and greenways, are key environments that encourage those activities. To evaluate a POS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Peng Sun , Rui Hou , Jerome Lynch

Nowadays, massive urban human mobility data are being generated from mobile phones, car navigation systems, and traffic sensors. Predicting the density and flow of the crowd or traffic at a citywide level becomes possible by using the big…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Renhe Jiang , Zekun Cai , Zhaonan Wang , Chuang Yang , Zipei Fan , Xuan Song , Kota Tsubouchi , Ryosuke Shibasaki

Mobility On Demand (MOD) systems are revolutionizing transportation in urban settings by improving vehicle utilization and reducing parking congestion. A key factor in the success of an MOD system is the ability to measure and respond to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Justin Miller , Andres Hasfura , Shih-Yuan Liu , Jonathan P. How

Sets of moving entities can form groups which travel together for significant amounts of time. Tracking such groups is an important analysis task in a variety of areas, such as wildlife ecology, urban transport, or sports analysis.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Max van Mulken , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

Person re-identification has become a very popular research topic in the computer vision community owing to its numerous applications and growing importance in visual surveillance. Person re-identification remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zongjing Cao , Hyo Jong Lee

Past research on pedestrian trajectory forecasting mainly focused on deterministic predictions which provide only point estimates of future states. These future estimates can help an autonomous vehicle plan its trajectory and avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Anshul Nayak , Azim Eskandarian , Zachary Doerzaph

Staircases play an essential role in crowd dynamics, allowing pedestrians to flow across large multi-level public facilities such as transportation hubs, and office buildings. Achieving a robust understanding of pedestrian behavior in these…

Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of people within a city is crucial to many planning applications. Obtaining data to create required knowledge, currently involves costly survey methods. At the same time ubiquitous mobile…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-06 Jameson L. Toole , Michael Ulm , Dietmar Bauer , Marta C. Gonzalez

Pedestrian detection is a critical task in autonomous driving, aimed at enhancing safety and reducing risks on the road. Over recent years, significant advancements have been made in improving detection performance. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Melo Castillo Angie Nataly , Martin Serrano Sergio , Salinas Carlota , Sotelo Miguel Angel

Dense pedestrian crowds may pose significant safety risks, yet their underlying dynamics remain insufficiently understood to reliably prevent accidents. In these environments, physical interactions and contact forces fundamentally shape the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-12 Thomas Chatagnon , Antoine Tordeux , Mohcine Chraibi