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We develop predictive models of pedestrian dynamics by encoding the coupled nature of multi-pedestrian interaction using game theory, and deep learning-based visual analysis to estimate person-specific behavior parameters. Building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Wei-Chiu Ma , De-An Huang , Namhoon Lee , Kris M. Kitani

This article focuses on different aspects of pedestrian (crowd) modeling and simulation. The review includes: various modeling criteria, such as granularity, techniques, and factors involved in modeling pedestrian behavior, and different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Amir Rasouli

Understanding the complex behavior of pedestrians walking in crowds is a challenge for both science and technology. In particular, obtaining reliable models for crowd dynamics, capable of exhibiting qualitatively and quantitatively the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-12 Alessandro Corbetta , Luca Bruno , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi

In this survey we consider mathematical models and methods recently developed to control crowd dynamics, with particular emphasis on egressing pedestrians. We focus on two control strategies: The first one consists in using special agents,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-25 Giacomo Albi , Emiliano Cristiani , Lorenzo Pareschi , Daniele Peri

In human crowds as well as in many animal societies, local interactions among individuals often give rise to self-organized collective organizations that offer functional benefits to the group. For instance, flows of pedestrians moving in…

The simulation of the dynamical behavior of pedestrians and crowds in spatial structures is a consolidated research and application context that still presents challenges for researchers in different fields and disciplines. Despite…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Giuseppe Vizzari , Stefania Bandini

Human crowds often bear a striking resemblance to interacting particle systems, and this has prompted many researchers to describe pedestrian dynamics in terms of interaction forces and potential energies. The correct quantitative form of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-04 Ioannis Karamouzas , Brian Skinner , Stephen J. Guy

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is a challenging task because of the complexity of real-world human social behaviors and uncertainty of the future motion. For the first issue, existing methods adopt fully connected topology for modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Lidan Zhang , Qi She , Ping Guo

The simulation of vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian dynamics meanwhile both have a decades long history. The success of this conference series, PED and others show that the interest in these topics is still strongly increasing. This…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-11-17 Cornelia Boenisch , Tobias Kretz

An extended social force model with a dynamic navigation field is proposed to study bidirectional pedestrian movement. The dynamic navigation field is introduced to describe the desired direction of pedestrian motion resulting from the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Yan-Qun Jiang , Bo-Kui Chen , Bing-Hong Wang , Weng-Fai Wong , Bing-Yang Cao

Pedestrian routing choices play a crucial role in shaping collective crowd dynamics, yet the influence of interactions among unfamiliar individuals remains poorly understood. In this study, we analyze real-world pedestrian behavior at a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-25 Ziqi Wang , Alessandro Gabbana , Federico Toschi

In this paper we propose a classification of crowd models in built environments based on the assumed pedestrian ability to foresee the movements of other walkers. At the same time, we introduce a new family of macroscopic models, which make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Emiliano Cristiani , Fabio S. Priuli , Andrea Tosin

Usually, routing models in pedestrian dynamics assume that agents have fulfilled and global knowledge about the building's structure. However, they neglect the fact that pedestrians possess no or only parts of information about their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Erik Andresen , David Haensel , Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried

Dense pedestrian crowds may pose significant safety risks, yet their underlying dynamics remain insufficiently understood to reliably prevent accidents. In these environments, physical interactions and contact forces fundamentally shape the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-12 Thomas Chatagnon , Antoine Tordeux , Mohcine Chraibi

Modeling the dynamics of people walking is a problem of long-standing interest in computer vision. Many previous works involving pedestrian trajectory prediction define a particular set of individual actions to implicitly model group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Inhwan Bae , Jin-Hwi Park , Hae-Gon Jeon

Trail interactions occur when past particle trajectories bias future motion, rendering the system out of thermodynamic equilibrium. While such systems are abundant in nature, their understanding is limited to the single-particle level or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-04 Paul Pineau , Samuel Bell , Raphaël Voituriez , Ram M. Adar

In a recent series of papers, we proposed a mathematical model for the dynamics of a group of interacting pedestrians. The model is based on a non-Newtonian potential, that accounts for the need of pedestrians to keep both their interacting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-13 Francesco Zanlungo , Zeynep Yucel , Takayuki Kanda

Social scientists have criticised computer models of pedestrian streams for their treatment of psychological crowds as mere aggregations of individuals. Indeed most models for evacuation dynamics use analogies from physics where pedestrians…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-13 I. von Sivers , A. Templeton , F. Künzner , G. Köster , J. Drury , A. Philippides , T. Neckel , H. -J. Bungartz

Understanding the dynamics of pedestrian crowds is an outstanding challenge crucial for designing efficient urban infrastructure and ensuring safe crowd management. To this end, both small-scale laboratory and large-scale real-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Koen Minartz , Fleur Hendriks , Simon Martinus Koop , Alessandro Corbetta , Vlado Menkovski

The aim our work is to create virtual humans as intelligent entities, which includes approximate the maximum as possible the virtual agent animation to the natural human behavior. In order to accomplish this task, our agent must be capable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-27 F. Cherif , R. Chighoub