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To navigate crowds without collisions, robots must interact with humans by forecasting their future motion and reacting accordingly. While learning-based prediction models have shown success in generating likely human trajectory…

Digital technology is fundamentally transforming human mobility. Route choices in particular are greatly affected by the availability of traffic data, increased connectivity of data sources and cheap access to computational resources.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-01 David-Maximilian Storch , Malte Schröder , Marc Timme

Crowd counting is a fundamental problem in crowd analysis which is typically accomplished by estimating a crowd density map and summing over the density values. However, this approach suffers from background noise accumulation and loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yasiru Ranasinghe , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd counting is a challenging yet critical task in computer vision with applications ranging from public safety to urban planning. Recent advances using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that estimate density maps have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Abhinav Sagar

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

Robotic navigation through crowds or herds requires the ability to both predict the future motion of nearby individuals and understand how these predictions might change in response to a robot's future action. State of the art trajectory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Stuart Eiffert , Salah Sukkarieh

Crowd counting is critical for numerous video surveillance scenarios. One of the main issues in this task is how to handle the dramatic scale variations of pedestrians caused by the perspective effect. To address this issue, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Zhaoyi Yan , Ruimao Zhang , Hongzhi Zhang , Qingfu Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Accurately forecasting traffic flows is critically important to many real applications including public safety and intelligent transportation systems. The challenges of this problem include both the dynamic mobility patterns of the people…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hao Miao , Senzhang Wang , Meiyue Zhang , Diansheng Guo , Funing Sun , Fan Yang

Understanding and predicting the intention of pedestrians is essential to enable autonomous vehicles and mobile robots to navigate crowds. This problem becomes increasingly complex when we consider the uncertainty and multimodality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Stuart Eiffert , Kunming Li , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall , Salah Sukkarieh , Eduardo Nebot

Autonomous vehicle navigation in shared pedestrian environments requires the ability to predict future crowd motion both accurately and with minimal delay. Understanding the uncertainty of the prediction is also crucial. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kunming Li , Stuart Eiffert , Mao Shan , Francisco Gomez-Donoso , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

The rapid development in visual crowd analysis shows a trend to count people by positioning or even detecting, rather than simply summing a density map. It also enlightens us back to the essence of the field, detection to count, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Qi wang , Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

Spatiotemporal forecasting has various applications in neuroscience, climate and transportation domain. Traffic forecasting is one canonical example of such learning task. The task is challenging due to (1) complex spatial dependency on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Yaguang Li , Rose Yu , Cyrus Shahabi , Yan Liu

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

Collectiveness motions of crowd systems have attracted a great deal of attentions in recently years. In this paper, we try to measure the collectiveness of a crowd system by the proposed node clique learning method. The proposed method is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Weiya Ren

Currently, the safety of people has become a very important problem in different places including subway station, universities, colleges, airport, shopping mall and square, city squares. Therefore, considering intelligence event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Constantinou Miti , Demetriou Zatte , Siraj Sajid Gondal

Traffic flow prediction is crucial for urban traffic management and public safety. Its key challenges lie in how to adaptively integrate the various factors that affect the flow changes. In this paper, we propose a unified neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Lingbo Liu , Ruimao Zhang , Jiefeng Peng , Guanbin Li , Bowen Du , Liang Lin

If a robot can predict crowds in parts of its environment that are inaccessible to its sensors, then it can plan to avoid them. This paper proposes a fast, online algorithm that learns average crowd densities in different areas. It also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Anoop Aroor , Susan L. Epstein

Crowd simulation is a central topic in several fields including graphics. To achieve high-fidelity simulations, data has been increasingly relied upon for analysis and simulation guidance. However, the information in real-world data is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feixiang He , Yuanhang Xiang , Xi Zhao , He Wang

Traffic flow forecasting is of great significance for improving the efficiency of transportation systems and preventing emergencies. Due to the highly non-linearity and intricate evolutionary patterns of short-term and long-term traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xu Chen , Yuanxing Zhang , Lun Du , Zheng Fang , Yi Ren , Kaigui Bian , Kunqing Xie

Accurately estimating urban rail platform occupancy can enhance transit agencies' ability to make informed operational decisions, thereby improving safety, operational efficiency, and customer experience, particularly in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Riccardo Fiorista , Awad Abdelhalim , Anson F. Stewart , Gabriel L. Pincus , Ian Thistle , Jinhua Zhao