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Crowd sensing is a new paradigm which leverages the pervasive smartphones to efficiently collect and upload sensing data, enabling numerous novel applications. To achieve good service quality for a crowd sensing application, incentive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Jiajun Sun

Safe and efficient crowd navigation for mobile robot is a crucial yet challenging task. Previous work has shown the power of deep reinforcement learning frameworks to train efficient policies. However, their performance deteriorates when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Yuying Chen , Congcong Liu , Ming Liu , Bertram E. Shi

We present a prototype system that can be used to capture longitudinal socialising processes by recording people's encounters in space. We argue that such a system can usefully be deployed in prisons and other detention facilities in order…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Vassilis Kostakos , Panos A. Kostakos

Crowd counting, i.e., estimation number of the pedestrian in crowd images, is emerging as an important research problem with the public security applications. A key component for the crowd counting systems is the construction of counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Xingjiao Wu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Wenxin Hu , Jing Yang , Liang He

Crowd counting is gaining societal relevance, particularly in domains of Urban Planning, Crowd Management, and Public Safety. This paper introduces Fourier-guided attention (FGA), a novel attention mechanism for crowd count estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yashwardhan Chaudhuri , Ankit Kumar , Arun Balaji Buduru , Adel Alshamrani

Operational urban transport models require to gather heterogeneous sets of data and often integrate different sub-models. Their systematic validation and reproducible application therefore remains problematic. We propose in this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-30 Juste Raimbault , Michael Batty

Smartphones and other mobile devices are today pervasive across the globe. As an interesting side effect of the surge in mobile communications, mobile network operators can now easily collect a wealth of high-resolution data on the habits…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Ghazaleh Khodabandelou , Vincent Gauthier , Mounim A. El-Yacoubi , Marco Fiore

The two main data categories of vehicular traffic flow, stationary detector data and floating-car data, are also available for many Marathons and other mass-sports events: Loop detectors and other stationary data sources find their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-12 Martin Treiber

We conducted a simple experiment in which one pedestrian passed through a crowded area and measured the body-rotational angular velocity with commercial tablets. Then, we developed a new method for predicting crowd density by applying the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-20 Koki Nagao , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

We propose an attention-injective deformable convolutional network called ADCrowdNet for crowd understanding that can address the accuracy degradation problem of highly congested noisy scenes. ADCrowdNet contains two concatenated networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Ning Liu , Yongchao Long , Changqing Zou , Qun Niu , Li Pan , Hefeng Wu

Smart and decentralized control systems have recently been proposed to handle the growing traffic congestion in urban cities. Proposed smart traffic light solutions based on Wireless Sensor Network and Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork are either…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Willy Carlos Tchuitcheu , Christophe Bobda , Md Jubaer Hossain Pantho

Crowd counting is a task of estimating the number of the crowd through images, which is extremely valuable in the fields of intelligent security, urban planning, public safety management, and so on. However, the existing counting methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yubin Wen , Siyu Yang , Lichen Ning , Yuandong Liu , Junyu Gao

Crowd movement simulation is crucial for pedestrian safety management and facility design. Data-driven models offer the potential to improve realism and predictive accuracy, but most are developed for a single scenario, limiting their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xuanwen Liang , Jiayu Chen , Eric Wai Ming Lee , Wei Xie

Modern methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate people densities in individual images. As such, only very few take advantage of temporal consistency in video sequences, and those that do only impose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Occlusions, complex backgrounds, scale variations and non-uniform distributions present great challenges for crowd counting in practical applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method using an attention model to exploit head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Youmei Zhang , Chunluan Zhou , Faliang Chang , Alex C. Kot

While human and group analysis have become an important area in last decades, some current and relevant applications involve to estimate future motion of pedestrians in real video sequences. This paper presents a method to provide motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Cliceres dal Bianco , Soraia Raupp Musse

We present an algorithm for realtime anomaly detection in low to medium density crowd videos using trajectory-level behavior learning. Our formulation combines online tracking algorithms from computer vision, non-linear pedestrian motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

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

The emergence of Internet of Things technology and recent advancement in sensor networks enabled transportation systems to a new dimension called Intelligent Transportation System. Due to increased usage of vehicles and communication among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Swarnamugi. M , Chinnaiyan. R

Monitoring urban structure and development requires high-quality data at high spatiotemporal resolution. While traditional censuses have provided foundational insights into demographic and socioeconomic aspects of urban life, their pace may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Gezhi Xiu , Jianying Wang , Thilo Gross , Mei-Po Kwan , Xia Peng , Yu Liu