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Mining the underlying patterns in gigantic and complex data is of great importance to data analysts. In this paper, we propose a motion pattern approach to mine frequent behaviors in trajectory data. Motion patterns, defined by a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Mahdi M. Kalayeh , Stephen Mussmann , Alla Petrakova , Niels da Vitoria Lobo , Mubarak Shah

Previous methods that predict system-wide travel time, predominantly grounded in graph neural networks, remain limited to typical and recurring demand patterns. While they successfully predict future congestion following daily commute, they…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Łukasz Gorczyca , Kacper Drozd , Michał Bujak , Rafał Kucharski

In this paper we deal with the study of travel flows and patterns of people in large populated areas. Information about the movements of people is extracted from coarse-grained aggregated cellular network data without tracking mobile…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-20 Caterina Balzotti , Andrea Bragagnini , Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

Predicting human displacements is crucial for addressing various societal challenges, including urban design, traffic congestion, epidemic management, and migration dynamics. While predictive models like deep learning and Markov models…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sebastiano Bontorin , Simone Centellegher , Riccardo Gallotti , Luca Pappalardo , Bruno Lepri , Massimiliano Luca

Accurate modeling of human mobility is critical for tackling urban planning and public health challenges. In undeveloped regions, the absence of comprehensive travel surveys necessitates reconstructing mobility networks from publicly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinming Yang , Shaoyu Huang , Zongyuan Huang , Yaohui Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Marta C. Gonzalez , Yanyan Xu

Experiments with pedestrians revealed that the geometry of the domain, as well as the incentive of pedestrians to reach a target as fast as possible have a strong influence on the overall dynamics. In this paper, we propose and validate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Michael Fischer , Gaspard Jankowiak , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Trajectory prediction plays a vital role in automotive radar systems, facilitating precise tracking and decision-making in autonomous driving. Generative adversarial networks with the ability to learn a distribution over future trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Peiyuan Zhu , Fengxia Han , Hao Deng

Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research, bridging computer science and urban studies, addresses the challenge of integrating these fields…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yan Luo , Zhuoyue Wan , Yuzhong Chen , Gengchen Mai , Fu-lai Chung , Kent Larson

This paper studies a stochastic model that describes the evolution of vehicle densities in a road network. It is consistent with the class of (deterministic) kinematic wave models, which describe traffic flows on the basis of conservation…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Michel Mandjes , Jaap Storm

Prediction of human motions is key for safe navigation of autonomous robots among humans. In cluttered environments, several motion hypotheses may exist for a pedestrian, due to its interactions with the environment and other pedestrians.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Bruno Brito , Hai Zhu , Wei Pan , Javier Alonso-Mora

A `trajectory' refers to a trace generated by a moving object in geographical spaces, usually represented by of a series of chronologically ordered points, where each point consists of a geo-spatial coordinate set and a timestamp. Rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Seongjin Choi

Getting insights on human mobility patterns and being able to reproduce them accurately is of the utmost importance in a wide range of applications from public health, to transport and urban planning. Still the relationship between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-15 Maxime Lenormand , Juan Murillo Arias , Maxi San Miguel , José J. Ramasco

We test a recently proposed model of commuting networks on 80 case studies from different regions of the world (Europe and United-States) and with geographic units of different sizes (municipality, county, region). The model takes as input…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Maxime Lenormand , Sylvie Huet , Floriana Gargiulo , Guillaume Deffuant

The recent availability of digital traces from Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has facilitated the study of both individual- and population-level movement with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution, enabling us to better…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-10 Surendra Hazarie , Hugo Barbosa , Adam Frank , Ronaldo Menezes , Gourab Ghoshal

In the era of mobile computing, understanding human mobility patterns is crucial in order to better design protocols and applications. Many studies focus on different aspects of human mobility such as people's points of interests, routes,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Ivan Oliveira Nunes , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

Predicting an agent's future trajectory is a challenging task given the complicated stimuli (environmental/inertial/social) of motion. Prior works learn individual stimulus from different modules and fuse the representations in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Shan Su , Cheng Peng , Jianbo Shi , Chiho Choi

Many dynamical systems can be described in terms of structured flows combining source/sink behavior, cyclic dynamics, and topology-constrained transport. These features arise across a wide range of domains, including physical, engineered,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego Casadei

The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The proliferation of digital mobility data, such as phone records, GPS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Massimiliano Luca , Gianni Barlacchi , Bruno Lepri , Luca Pappalardo

Understanding human mobility is of vital importance for urban planning, epidemiology, and many other fields that aim to draw policies from the activities of humans in space. Despite recent availability of large scale data sets related to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-18 Oleguer Sagarra , Michael Szell , Paolo Santi , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Carlo Ratti

Realistic modeling of vehicular mobility has been particularly challenging due to a lack of large libraries of measurements in the research community. In this paper we introduce a novel method for large-scale monitoring, analysis, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-26 Gautam S. Thakur , Pan Hui , Hamed Ketabdar , Ahmed Helmy