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Personal mobility data from mobile phones and other sensors are increasingly used to inform policymaking during pandemics, natural disasters, and other humanitarian crises. However, even aggregated mobility traces can reveal private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Nitin Kohli , Emily Aiken , Joshua Blumenstock

Synthetic contact networks are useful for modeling epidemic spread and social transmission, but data to infer realistic contact patterns that take account of assortative connections at the geographic and economic levels is limited. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Alexander Y. Tulchinsky , Fardad Haghpanah , Alisa Hamilton , Nodar Kipshidze , Eili Y. Klein

Commuting is a key mechanism that governs the dynamics of cities. Despite its importance, very little is known of the properties and mechanisms underlying this crucial urban process. Here, we capitalize on $\sim$ 50 million individuals'…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-28 Lei Dong , Paolo Santi , Yu Liu , Siqi Zheng , Carlo Ratti

Predicting human mobility flows at different spatial scales is challenged by the heterogeneity of individual trajectories and the multi-scale nature of transportation networks. As vast amounts of digital traces of human behaviour become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-08 M. G. Beiró , A. Panisson , M. Tizzoni , C. Cattuto

Smart cities rely on dynamic and real-time data to enable smart urban applications such as intelligent transport and epidemics detection. However, the streaming of big data from IoT devices, especially from mobile platforms like pedestrians…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Joshua Joy , Ciaran McGoldrick , Mario Gerla

Understanding human mobility is crucial for a broad range of applications from disease prediction to communication networks. Most efforts on studying human mobility have so far used private and low resolution data, such as call data…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-10 Raja Jurdak , Kun Zhao , Jiajun Liu , Maurice AbouJaoude , Mark Cameron , David Newth

Autonomous driving is a popular research area within the computer vision research community. Since autonomous vehicles are highly safety-critical, ensuring robustness is essential for real-world deployment. While several public multimodal…

Human motion generation has shown great advances thanks to the recent diffusion models trained on large-scale motion capture data. Most of existing works, however, currently target animation of isolated people in empty scenes. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yangsong Zhang , Abdul Ahad Butt , Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev

In many developing countries, half the population lives in rural locations, where access to essentials such as school materials, mosquito nets, and medical supplies is restricted. We propose an alternative method of distribution (to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 James McInerney , Alex Rogers , Nicholas R. Jennings

Smartphones and other mobile devices are today pervasive across the globe. As an interesting side effect of the surge in mobile communications, mobile network operators can now easily collect a wealth of high-resolution data on the habits…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Ghazaleh Khodabandelou , Vincent Gauthier , Mounim A. El-Yacoubi , Marco Fiore

Understanding urban mobility requires models that capture how people interact with and navigate the built environment. We present a scalable, generalizable agent-based framework in which daily schedules emerge from the interplay between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-30 Sandro M. Reia , Henrique F. de Arruda , Shiyang Ruan , Taylor Anderson , Hamdi Kavak , Dieter Pfoser

Cities play a pivotal role in human development and sustainability, yet studying them presents significant challenges due to the vast scale and complexity of spatial-temporal data. One such challenge is the need to uncover universal urban…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhenhui Li , Hongwei Zhang , Kan Wu

In the research of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic simulation is a key procedure for the evaluation of new methods and optimization of strategies. However, existing traffic simulation systems face two challenges. First,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jun Zhang , Wenxuan Ao , Junbo Yan , Can Rong , Depeng Jin , Wei Wu , Yong Li

We introduce SynPlay, a large-scale synthetic human dataset purpose-built for advancing multi-perspective human localization, with a predominant focus on aerial-view perception. SynPlay departs from traditional synthetic datasets by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jinsub Yim , Hyungtae Lee , Sungmin Eum , Yi-Ting Shen , Yan Zhang , Heesung Kwon , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Reliable traffic data are essential for understanding urban mobility and developing effective traffic management strategies. This study introduces the DRone-derived Intelligence For Traffic analysis (DRIFT) dataset, a large-scale urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hyejin Lee , Seokjun Hong , Jeonghoon Song , Haechan Cho , Zhixiong Jin , Byeonghun Kim , Joobin Jin , Jaegyun Im , Byeongjoon Noh , Hwasoo Yeo

We propose a methodology to assess transportation accessibility inequity in metropolitan areas. The methodology is based on the classic analysis tools of Lorenz curves and Gini indices, but the novelty resides in the fact that it can be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Amirhesam Badeanlou , Andrea Araldo , Marco Diana

Human mobility describes physical patterns of movement of people within a spatial system. Many of these patterns, including daily commuting, are cyclic and quantifiable. These patterns capture physical phenomena tied to processes studied in…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-10 Michael J. Kane , Owais Gilani , Simon Urbanek

Data on human spatial distribution and movement is essential for understanding and analyzing social systems. However existing sources for this data are lacking in various ways; difficult to access, biased, have poor geographical or temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Mark Dredze , Manuel García-Herranz , Alex Rutherford , Gideon Mann

Intelligent Transportation Systems increasingly depend on heterogeneous data from roadside cameras, UAV imagery, LiDAR, and in-vehicle sensors, yet the lack of unified data standards, model interfaces, and evaluation protocols across these…

Human trajectory data, which plays a crucial role in various applications such as crowd management and epidemic prevention, is challenging to obtain due to practical constraints and privacy concerns. In this context, synthetic human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Bangchao Deng , Xin Jing , Tianyue Yang , Bingqing Qu , Dingqi Yang , Philippe Cudre-Mauroux