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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed human life. To mitigate the pandemic's impacts, different regions implemented various policies to contain COVID-19 and residents showed diverse responses. These human responses in turn shaped the uneven…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-17 Binbin Lin , Lei Zou , Mingzheng Yang , Bing Zhou , Debayan Mandal , Joynal Abedin , Heng Cai , Ning Ning

Maps of dynamics are effective representations of motion patterns learned from prior observations, with recent research demonstrating their ability to enhance various downstream tasks such as human-aware robot navigation, long-term human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yufei Zhu , Andrey Rudenko , Luigi Palmieri , Lukas Heuer , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Accurate origin-destination (OD) passenger flow prediction is crucial for enhancing metro system efficiency, optimizing scheduling, and improving passenger experiences. However, current models often fail to effectively capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yichen Wang , Chengcheng Yu

In this paper, we introduce the OpenStreetMap Mobility Demand Generator (OMOD), a new open-source activity-based mobility demand generation tool. OMOD creates a population of agents and detailed daily activity schedules that state what…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Leo Strobel , Marco Pruckner

Sensemaking using automatically extracted information from text is a challenging problem. In this paper, we address a specific type of information extraction, namely extracting information related to descriptions of movement. Aggregating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Scott Pezanowski , Prasenjit Mitra , Alan M. MacEachren

We propose a real-time dynamic LiDAR odometry pipeline for mobile robots in Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) scenarios. Existing approaches to dynamic object detection often rely on pretrained learned networks or computationally expensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jonathan Lichtenfeld , Kevin Daun , Oskar von Stryk

Understanding and predicting pedestrian dynamics has become essential for shaping safer, more responsive, and human-centered urban environments. This study conducts a comprehensive scientometric analysis of research on data-driven…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Junhao Xu , Hui Zeng

Trip flow between areas is a fundamental metric for human mobility research. Given its identification with travel demand and its relevance for transportation and urban planning, many models have been developed for its estimation. These…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-06 Erjian Liu , Mattia Mazzoli , Xiao-Yong Yan , Jose J. Ramasco

From the perspective of human mobility, the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a natural experiment of enormous reach in space and time. Here, we analyse the inherent multiple scales of human mobility using Facebook Movement Maps collected…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-29 Juni Schindler , Jonathan Clarke , Mauricio Barahona

Gathering data and identifying events in various traffic situations remains an essential challenge for the systematic evaluation of a perception system's performance. Analyzing large-scale, typically unstructured, multi-modal, time series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tayssir Bouraffa , Elias Kjellberg Carlson , Erik Wessman , Ali Nouri , Pierre Lamart , Christian Berger

Recent availability of geo-localized data capturing individual human activity together with the statistical data on international migration opened up unprecedented opportunities for a study on global mobility. In this paper we consider it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Alexander Belyi , Iva Bojic , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Izabela Sitko , Bartosz Hawelka , Lada Rudikova , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

A comprehensive understanding of human mobility patterns in urban areas is essential for urban development and transportation planning. In this study, we create entropy-based measurements to capture the geographical distribution diversity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-18 Yuqin Jiang , Yihong Yuan , Su Yeon Han

The movements of individuals within and among cities influence critical aspects of our society, such as well-being, the spreading of epidemics, and the quality of the environment. When information about mobility flows is not available for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Filippo Simini , Gianni Barlacchi , Massimiliano Luca , Luca Pappalardo

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

Transportation companies and organizations routinely collect huge volumes of passenger transportation data. By aggregating these data (e.g., counting the number of passengers going from a place to another in every 30 minute interval), it…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Ben Kao

The increasing pervasiveness of object tracking technologies leads to huge volumes of spatiotemporal data collected in the form of trajectory streams. The discovery of useful group patterns from moving objects' movement behaviours in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Yanwei Yu , Ruoshan Lan , Lei Cao , Peng Song , Yingjie Wang

We propose Occupancy Flow Fields, a new representation for motion forecasting of multiple agents, an important task in autonomous driving. Our representation is a spatio-temporal grid with each grid cell containing both the probability of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Reza Mahjourian , Jinkyu Kim , Yuning Chai , Mingxing Tan , Ben Sapp , Dragomir Anguelov

Understanding urban human mobility patterns at various spatial levels is essential for social science. This study presents a machine learning framework to downscale origin-destination (OD) taxi trips flows in New York City from a larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yuqin Jiang , Andrey A. Popov , Tianle Duan , Qingchun Li

Modeling crowd behavior relies on accurate data of pedestrian movements at a high level of detail. Imaging sensors such as cameras provide a good basis for capturing such detailed pedestrian motion data. However, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Stefan Seer , Norbert Brändle , Carlo Ratti

Forecasting building energy usage is essential for promoting sustainability and reducing waste, as it enables building managers to optimize energy consumption and reduce costs. This importance is magnified during anomalous periods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Arian Prabowo , Kaixuan Chen , Hao Xue , Subbu Sethuvenkatraman , Flora D. Salim