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Pedestrians in crowds frequently move as part of small groups, constituting up to 70% of individuals. Dyads (groups of two) are the most frequent. Understanding quantitatively the dynamics of dyads walking in crowds is therefore an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Chiel van der Laan , Alessandro Corbetta

This paper introduces an improved social force model for companion group that incorporates relative weight attraction. Based on the traditional social force model, the interaction forces among individuals within leader-follower groups are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-22 Lihui Dong , Yingshuang He , Yunfeng Deng , Qiuyu Zheng , Tianming Wang

This paper introduces a crowd modeling and motion control approach that employs diffusion adaptation within an adaptive network. In the network, nodes collaboratively address specific estimation problems while simultaneously moving as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Zirui Wan , Saeid Sanei

Various methods to automate traffic data collection have recently been developed by many researchers. A macroscopic data collection through image processing has been proposed. For microscopic traffic flow data, such as individual speed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Kardi Teknomo , Yasushi Takeyama , Hajime Inamura

Assessing mobility in a thorough fashion is a crucial step toward more efficient mobile network design. Recent research on mobility has focused on two main points: analyzing models and studying their impact on data transport. These works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vincent Borrel , Franck Legendre , Marcelo Dias de Amorim , Serge Fdida

There are different physics-based approaches for analysing pedestrian movement. Physics-based methods like statistical mechanics-based models apply the laws of physics to drive equations for analysing crowd behaviour. This paper will…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-15 Amir Ghorbani

The Social Force Model (SFM) is a suitable model for describing crowd behaviors under emotional stress. This research analyzes the role of the body force in the original SFM. We focused on the parameter associated with the body stiffness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-09 Ignacio Sticco , Guillermo Frank , Claudio Dorso

In this paper, we present a novel method to recognize the types of crowd movement from crowd trajectories using agent-based motion models (AMMs). Our idea is to apply a number of AMMs, referred to as exemplar-AMMs, to describe the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Wenxi Liu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Xiaogang Wang , Dinesh Manocha

This paper provides a new perspective to understand existing controversy on the social force model. These issues include that the social force disobeys Newton 3rd Law, oscillation phenomenon when one agent is approaching another as well as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-09 Peng Wang , Xiaoda Wang

Transport in crowded, complex environments occurs across many spatial scales. Geometric restrictions can hinder the motion of individuals and, combined with crowding between individuals, can have drastic effects on global transport…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniel B. Wilson , Francis G. Woodhouse , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

Security is an important topic in our contemporary world, and the ability to automate the detection of any events of interest that can take place in a crowd is of great interest to a population. We hypothesize that the detection of events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Matheus Schreiner Homrich da Silva , Paulo Brossard de Souza Pinto Neto , Rodolfo Migon Favaretto , Soraia Raupp Musse

How to reproduce realistic motion in simulations has always been a fundamental problem for pedestrian dynamics, and a critical challenge for current studies is the natural correlation of the movement choices and the human behaviours. To…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-27 Yao Xiao

Focusing on a specific crowd dynamics situation, including real life experiments and measurements, our paper targets a twofold aim: (1) we present a Bayesian probabilistic method to estimate the value and the uncertainty (in the form of a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-04-12 Alessandro Corbetta , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi , Kiamars Vafayi

We apply a physical based model to describe the clothes fashion market. Every time a new outlet appears on the market, it can invade the market under certain specific conditions. Hence, the "old'' outlet can be completely dominated and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Serge Galam , Annick Vignes

This paper introduces a space-continuous force-based model for simulating pedestrian dynamics. The main interest of this work is the quantitative description of pedestrian movement through a bottleneck. Measurements of flow and density will…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-15 Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider , Wolfgang Mackens

We introduce an on-ground Pedestrian World Model, a computational model that can predict how pedestrians move around an observer in the crowd on the ground plane, but from just the egocentric-views of the observer. Our model, InCrowdFormer,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mai Nishimura , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

In this paper, we begin by reviewing a certain number of mathematical challenges posed by the modelling of collective dynamics and self-organization. Then, we focus on two specific problems, first, the derivation of fluid equations from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Pierre Degond

We review the observations and the basic laws describing the essential aspects of collective motion -- being one of the most common and spectacular manifestation of coordinated behavior. Our aim is to provide a balanced discussion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-16 Tamás Vicsek , Anna Zafeiris

Understanding pedestrian dynamics and the interaction of pedestrians with their environment is crucial to the safe and comfortable design of pedestrian facilities. Experiments offer the opportunity to explore the influence of individual…

A self-organized model with social percolation process is proposed to describe the propagations of information for different trading ways across a social system and the automatic formation of various groups within market traders. Based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhi-Feng Huang