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Spatiotemporal crowd flow prediction is one of the key technologies in smart cities. Currently, there are two major pain points that plague related research and practitioners. Firstly, crowd flow is related to multiple domain knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jiangyi Fang , Liyue Chen , Di Chai , Yayao Hong , Xiuhuai Xie , Longbiao Chen , Leye Wang

To realize efficient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) prediction of two-phase flow, a multi-scale framework was proposed in this paper by applying a physics-guided data-driven approach. Instrumental to this framework, Feature Similarity…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Han Bao , Jinyong Feng , Nam Dinh , Hongbin Zhang

Accurate population flow prediction is essential for urban planning, transportation management, and public health. Yet existing methods face key limitations: traditional models rely on static spatial assumptions, deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Hongrong Yang , Markus Schlaepfer

Deep within the networks of distributed systems, one often finds anomalies that affect their efficiency and performance. These anomalies are difficult to detect because the distributed systems may not have sufficient sensors to monitor the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Freddy Chong Tat Chua , Ee-Peng Lim , Bernardo A. Huberman

Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free method for learning a continuous and invertible flow to interpolate between two distributions, and in particular to generate data from noise. Inspired by the variational nature of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

In this paper, we aim to monitor the flow of people in large public infrastructures. We propose an unsupervised methodology to cluster people flow patterns into the most typical and meaningful configurations. By processing 3D images from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 João Carvalho , Manuel Marques , João P. Costeira

Two fundamental problems in unsupervised learning are efficient inference for latent-variable models and robust density estimation based on large amounts of unlabeled data. Algorithms for the two tasks, such as normalizing flows and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Changyou Chen , Chunyuan Li , Liqun Chen , Wenlin Wang , Yunchen Pu , Lawrence Carin

Forecasting the flow of crowds is of great importance to traffic management and public safety, and very challenging as it is affected by many complex factors, including spatial dependencies (nearby and distant), temporal dependencies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Junbo Zhang , Yu Zheng , Dekang Qi , Ruiyuan Li , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

Urban spatio-temporal flow prediction, encompassing traffic flows and crowd flows, is crucial for optimizing city infrastructure and managing traffic and emergency responses. Traditional approaches have relied on separate models tailored to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuan Yuan , Jingtao Ding , Chonghua Han , Zhi Sheng , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Monitoring the behavior of automated real-time stream processing systems has become one of the most relevant problems in real world applications. Such systems have grown in complexity relying heavily on high dimensional input data, and data…

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

One main challenge for the design of networks is that traffic load is not generally known in advance. This makes it hard to adequately devote resources such as to best prevent or mitigate bottlenecks. While several authors have shown how to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Patrick Jahnke , Emmanuel Stapf , Jonas Mieseler , Gerhard Neumann , Patrick Eugster

Increasing evidence suggests that cities are complex systems, with structural and dynamical features responsible for a broad spectrum of emerging phenomena. Here we use a unique data set of human flows and couple it with information on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-22 Riccardo Gallotti , Giulia Bertagnolli , Manlio De Domenico

Generating realistic human flows across regions is essential for our understanding of urban structures and population activity patterns, enabling important applications in the fields of urban planning and management. However, a notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhewei Liu , Lipai Huang , Chao Fan , Ali Mostafavi

We propose a physics-informed machine-learned framework for sensor-based flow estimation for drone trajectories in complex urban terrain. The input is a rich set of flow simulations at many wind conditions. The outputs are velocity and…

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

This study enhances a crowd density estimation algorithm originally designed for image-based analysis by adapting it for video-based scenarios. The proposed method integrates a denoising probabilistic model that utilizes diffusion processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Balachandra Devarangadi Sunil , Rakshith Venkatesh , Shantanu Todmal

Nowadays, many cities are equipped with surveillance systems and traffic control centers to monitor vehicular traffic for road safety and efficiency. The monitoring process is mostly done manually which is inefficient and expensive. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Sepehr Sabour , Sanjeev Rao , Majid Ghaderi

The growth of the number of people in the monitoring scene may increase the probability of security threat, which makes crowd counting more and more important. Most of the existing approaches estimate the number of pedestrians within one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Liqing Gao , Yanzhang Wang , Xin Ye , Jian Wang

Autonomous driving systems require robust lane perception capabilities, yet existing vision-based detection methods suffer significant performance degradation when visual sensors provide insufficient cues, such as in occluded or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yihan Xie , Han Xia , Zhen Yang