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Despite the growing popularity of human mobility studies that collect GPS location data, the problem of determining the minimum required length of GPS monitoring has not been addressed in the current statistical literature. In this paper we…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2019-08-28 Zhihang Dong , Yen-Chi Chen , Adrian Dobra

As various mobile devices and location-based services are increasingly developed in different smart city scenarios and applications, many unexpected privacy leakages have arisen due to geolocated data collection and sharing. While these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yuting Zhan , Alex Kyllo , Afra Mashhadi , Hamed Haddadi

We present an unsupervised approach to analyze crowd at various levels of granularity $-$ individual, group and collective. We also propose a motion model to represent the collective motion of the crowd. The model captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Neha Bhargava , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Individual mobility prediction is an essential task for transportation demand management and traffic system operation. There exist a large body of works on modeling location sequence and predicting the next location of users; however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yuankai Wu , Zhanhong Cheng , Lijun Sun

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

Individual mobility is driven by demand for activities with diverse spatiotemporal patterns, but existing methods for mobility prediction often overlook the underlying activity patterns. To address this issue, this study develops an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Baichuan Mo , Zhan Zhao , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Jinhua Zhao

The accurate estimation of human activity in cities is one of the first steps towards understanding the structure of the urban environment. Human activities are highly granular and dynamic in spatial and temporal dimensions. Estimating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Roberto Murcio , Balamurugan Soundararaj

This study presents an initial framework for distinguishing group and single pedestrians based on real-world trajectory data, with the aim of analyzing their differences in space utilization and emergent behavioral patterns. By segmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Amartaivan Sanjjamts , Morita Hiroshi

Movement synchrony refers to the dynamic temporal connection between the motions of interacting people. The applications of movement synchrony are wide and broad. For example, as a measure of coordination between teammates, synchrony scores…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Jicheng Li , Anjana Bhat , Roghayeh Barmaki

Cellular phones are now offering an ubiquitous means for scientists to observe life: how people act, move and respond to external influences. They can be utilized as measurement devices of individual persons and for groups of people of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Shao-Meng Qin , Hannu Verkasalo , Mikael Mohtaschemi , Tuomo Hartonen , Mikko Alava

Current approaches for points-of-interest (POI) recommendation learn the preferences of a user via the standard spatial features such as the POI coordinates, the social network, etc. These models ignore a crucial aspect of spatial mobility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vinayak Gupta , Srikanta Bedathur

A long-standing goal in computer vision is to capture, model, and realistically synthesize human behavior. Specifically, by learning from data, our goal is to enable virtual humans to navigate within cluttered indoor scenes and naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Mohamed Hassan , Duygu Ceylan , Ruben Villegas , Jun Saito , Jimei Yang , Yi Zhou , Michael Black

With current technology, a number of entities have access to user mobility traces at different levels of spatio-temporal granularity. At the same time, users frequently reveal their location through different means, including geo-tagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Nicolas Kourtellis , Ilias Leontiadis , Joan Serrà , Claudio Soriente

Human gait has been shown to provide crucial motion cues for various applications. Recognizing patterns in human gait has been widely adopted in various application areas such as security, virtual reality gaming, medical rehabilitation, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Chinmay Prakash Swami

In recent years, a vast amount of research has been conducted on learning people's interests from their actions. Yet their collective actions also allow us to learn something about the world, in particular, infer attributes of places people…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Shuxin Nie , Abhimanyu Das , Evgeniy Gabrilovich , Wei-Lwun Lu , Boris Mazniker , Chris Schilling

Human mobility data is a crucial resource for urban mobility management, but it does not come without personal reference. The implementation of security measures such as anonymization is thus needed to protect individuals' privacy. Often, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Alexandra Kapp

Predicting both the time and the location of human movements is valuable but challenging for a variety of applications. To address this problem, we propose an approach considering both the periodicity and the sociality of human movements.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Ning Yang , Xiangnan Kong , Fengjiao Wang , Philip S. Yu

Movement synchrony reflects the coordination of body movements between interacting dyads. The estimation of movement synchrony has been automated by powerful deep learning models such as transformer networks. However, instead of designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Jicheng Li , Anjana Bhat , Roghayeh Barmaki

Human mobility traces, often recorded as sequences of check-ins, provide a unique window into both short-term visiting patterns and persistent lifestyle regularities. In this work we introduce GSTM-HMU, a generative spatio-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Wenying Luo , Zhiyuan Lin , Wenhao Xu , Minghao Liu , Zhi Li

User online behavior and interests will play a central role in future mobile networks. We introduce a systematic method for large-scale multi-dimensional analysis of online activity for thousands of mobile users across 79 buildings over a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-31 Saeed Moghaddam , Ahmed Helmy