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Pollution in urban centres is becoming a major societal problem. While pollution is a concern for all urban dwellers, cyclists are one of the most exposed groups due to their proximity to vehicle tailpipes. Consequently, new solutions are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Adam Herrmann , Mingming Liu , Robert Shorten

As a healthier and more sustainable way of mobility, cycling has been advocated by literature and policy. However, current trends in bicyclist crash fatalities suggest deficiencies in current roadway design in protecting these vulnerable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Xiang Guo , Arash Tavakoli , Erin Robartes , Austin Angulo , T. Donna Chen , Arsalan Heydarian

When humans navigate a crowed space such as a university campus or the sidewalks of a busy street, they follow common sense rules based on social etiquette. In this paper, we argue that in order to enable the design of new algorithms that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Alexandre Robicquet , Alexandre Alahi , Amir Sadeghian , Bryan Anenberg , John Doherty , Eli Wu , Silvio Savarese

Increased interaction between and among pedestrians and vehicles in the crowded urban environments of today gives rise to a negative side-effect: a growth in traffic accidents, with pedestrians being the most vulnerable elements. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Cristina Bustos , Daniel Rhoads , Agata Lapedriza , Javier Borge-Holthoefer , Albert Solé-Ribalta

Understanding how built environments shape human experience is central to designing sustainable cities. Cycling provides a critical case: it delivers health and environmental benefits, yet its uptake depends strongly on the experience of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haining Ding , Chenxi Wang , Michal Gath-Morad

Understanding the motivators and deterrents to cycling is essential for creating infrastructure that gets more people to adopt cycling as a mode of transport. This paper demonstrates a new approach to support the prioritization of cycling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-11 Hussein Mahfouz , Elsa Arcaute , Robin Lovelace

Egocentric vision aims to capture and analyse the world from the first-person perspective. We explore the possibilities for egocentric wearable devices to improve and enhance industrial use cases w.r.t. data collection, annotation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Vivek Chavan , Oliver Heimann , Jörg Krüger

The effect of transport-related pollution on human health is fast becoming recognised as a major issue in cities worldwide. Cyclists, in particular, face great risks, as they typically are most exposed to tail-pipe emissions. Three avenues…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Shaun Sweeney , Rodrigo Ordonez-Hurtado , Francesco Pilla , Giovanni Russo , David Timoney , Robert Shorten

Understanding road scenes for visual perception remains crucial for intelligent self-driving cars. In particular, it is desirable to detect unexpected small road hazards reliably in real-time, especially under varying adverse conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jongoh Jeong , Taek-Jin Song , Jong-Hwan Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Designing or learning an autonomous driving policy is undoubtedly a challenging task as the policy has to maintain its safety in all corner cases. In order to secure safety in autonomous driving, the ability to detect hazardous situations,…

Bicycle-sharing systems, which can provide shared bike usage services for the public, have been launched in many big cities. In bicycle-sharing systems, people can borrow and return bikes at any stations in the service region very…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Pan , Moyin Li , Philip S. Yu

Severe collisions can result from aggressive driving and poor road conditions, emphasizing the need for effective monitoring to ensure safety. Smartphones, with their array of built-in sensors, offer a practical and affordable solution for…

Novel forms of data analysis methods have emerged as a significant research direction in the transportation domain. These methods can potentially help to improve our understanding of the dynamic flows of vehicles, people, and goods.…

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Video surveillance always had a negative connotation, among others because of the loss of privacy and because it may not automatically increase public safety. If it was able to detect atypical (i.e. dangerous) situations in real time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Dominik Rueß , Konstantinos Amplianitis , Niklas Deckers , Michele Adduci , Kristian Manthey , Ralf Reulke

Clustering trajectory data attracted considerable attention in the last few years. Most of prior work assumed that moving objects can move freely in an euclidean space and did not consider the eventual presence of an underlying road network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Mohamed Khalil El Mahrsi , Fabrice Rossi

Cycling is a key ingredient for a sustainability shift of Denmark's transportation system. To increase cycling rates, a better nationwide network of bicycle infrastructure is required. Planning such a network requires high-quality…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ane Rahbek Vierø , Anastassia Vybornova , Michael Szell

Cyclists travelling in urban areas are particularly at risk of harm from particulate emissions due to their increased breathing rate and proximity to vehicles. In this paper we combine human respiratory models with models of particulate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-03 Abigail Langbridge , Pietro Ferraro , Robert Shorten

The popularity and proliferation of electric scooters (e-scooters) as a micromobility solution in our cities and urban communities has been rapidly rising. Rent-by-the-minute pricing and a healthy competition between micromobility service…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Anindya Maiti , Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth , Murtuza Jadliwala , Raveen Wijewickrama , Greg P. Griffin

Social navigation datasets are necessary to assess social navigation algorithms and train machine learning algorithms. Most of the currently available datasets target pedestrians' movements as a pattern to be replicated by robots. It can be…

Trajectory forecasting has become a popular deep learning task due to its relevance for scenario simulation for autonomous driving. Specifically, trajectory forecasting predicts the trajectory of a short-horizon future for specific human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Laura Zheng , Hamidreza Yaghoubi Araghi , Tony Wu , Sandeep Thalapanane , Tianyi Zhou , Ming C. Lin