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Gait, an unobtrusive biometric, is valued for its capability to identify individuals at a distance, across external outfits and environmental conditions. This study challenges the prevailing assumption that vision-based gait recognition, in…

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We propose a novel computational method to extract information about interactions among individuals with different behavioral states in a biological collective from ordinary video recordings. Assuming that individuals are acting as finite…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Hiroki Sayama , Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani , Ali Jazayeri , J. Scott Turner

When analyzing animal movement, it is important to account for interactions between individuals. However, statistical models for incorporating interaction behavior in movement models are limited. We propose an approach that models dependent…

Applications · Statistics 2015-08-04 James C. Russell , Ephraim M. Hanks , Murali Haran

Movement is a fundamental aspect of animal life and plays a crucial role in determining the structure of population dynamics, communities, ecosystems, and diversity. In recent years, the recording of animal movements via GPS collars, camera…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Brendan Hoover , Gil Bohrer , Jerod Merkle , Jennifer A. Miller

The study of self-propelled particles is a fast-growing research topic where biologically inspired movement is increasingly becoming of much interest. A relevant example is the collective motion of social insects, whose variety and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-26 Leticia R. Paiva , Sidiney G. Alves , Lucas Lacasa , Og DeSouza , Octavio Miramontes

Movement is a fundamental behaviour of organisms that brings about beneficial encounters with resources and mates, but at the same time exposes the organism to dangerous encounters with predators. The movement patterns adopted by organisms…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-26 Giuseppe Bianco , Patrizio Mariani , Andre W. Visser , Maria Grazia Mazzocchi , Simone Pigolotti

Understanding primate behavior is a mission-critical goal of both biology and biomedicine. Despite the importance of behavior, our ability to rigorously quantify it has heretofore been limited to low-information measures like preference,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-01 Benjamin Hayden , Hyun Soo Park , Jan Zimmermann

Recent advances in human mobility research have revealed consistent pairwise characteristics in movement behavior, yet existing mobility models often overlook the spatial and topological structure of mobility networks. By analyzing millions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Lu Zhong , Lei Dong , Qi Wang , Chaoming Song , Jianxi Gao

There exist two ways to obtain walk behavior: assuming a large number of technifermions in the fundamental representation of the technicolor (TC) gauge group, or a small number of technifermions, assuming that these fermions are in…

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The growing number of large databases of animal tracking provides an opportunity for analyses of movement patterns at the scales of populations and even species. We used analytical approaches, developed to cope with big data, that require…

Studies of transient dynamics captures the time history of any dramatic changes in the dynamics of a system. The transient dynamics is investigated here in a classic ecological model of a bistable tri-trophic food chain. All the species in…

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The coupling between evolutionary and ecological changes (eco-evolutionary dynamics) has been shown to be relevant among diverse species, and is also of interest outside of ecology, i.e. in cancer evolution. These dynamics play an important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Manh Hong Duong , Fabian Spill , Blaine van Rensburg

Recurrence plots and their associated quantifiers provide a robust framework for detecting and characterising complex patterns in non-linear time-series. In this paper, we employ recurrence quantification analysis to investigate the…

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We use a combination of analytic models and computer simulations to gain insight into the dynamics of evolution. Our results suggest that certain interesting phenomena should eventually emerge from the fossil record. For example, there…

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Joint forecasting of human trajectory and pose dynamics is a fundamental building block of various applications ranging from robotics and autonomous driving to surveillance systems. Predicting body dynamics requires capturing subtle…

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Pedestrian well-being is a critical yet rarely measured component of sustainable urban mobility and livable city design. Existing approaches to evaluating pedestrian environments often rely on static, infrastructure-based indices or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Yasaman Hakiminejad , Arash Tavakoli

The gait, as a kind of soft biometric characteristic, can reflect the distinct walking patterns of individuals at a distance, exhibiting a promising technique for unrestrained human identification. With largely excluding gait-unrelated cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dongyang Jin , Chao Fan , Weihua Chen , Shiqi Yu

A number of microorganisms leave persistent trails while moving along surfaces. For single-cell organisms, the trail-mediated self-interaction will influence its dynamics. It has been discussed recently [Kranz \textit{et al.} Phys. Rev.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 W. Till Kranz , Ramin Golestanian

A quantitative understanding of organism-level behavior requires predictive models that can capture the richness of behavioral phenotypes, yet are simple enough to connect with underlying mechanistic processes. Here we investigate the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-26 Stephen J. Helms , W. Mathijs Rozemuller , Antonio Carlos Costa , Leon Avery , Greg J. Stephens , Thomas S. Shimizu