A Graphical simulator for modeling complex crowd behaviors

Yu Hao, Zhijie Xu, Ying Liu, Jing Wang, Jiulun Fan

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Abstract

Abnormal crowd behaviors of varied real-world settings could represent or pose serious threat to public safety. The video data required for relevant analysis are often difficult to acquire due to security, privacy and data protection issues. Without large amounts of realistic crowd data, it is difficult to develop and verify crowd behavioral models, event detection techniques, and corresponding test and evaluations. This paper presented a synthetic method for generating crowd movements and tendency based on existing social and behavioral studies. Graph and tree searching algorithms as well as game engine-enabled techniques have been adopted in the study. The main outcomes of this research include a categorization model for entity-based behaviors following a linear aggregation approach; and the construction of an innovative agent-based pipeline for the synthesis of A-Star path-finding algorithm and an enhanced Social Force Model. A Spatial-Temporal Texture (STT) technique has been adopted for the evaluation of the model's effectiveness. Tests have highlighted the visual similarities between STTs extracted from the simulations and their counterparts-video recordings-from the real-world.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Visualisation - Biomedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments and Geometric Modelling and Imaging, IV 2018
EditorsJoao Moura Pires, Nuno Miguel Soares Datia, Giuseppe Polese, Marco Temperini, Filippo Sciarrone, Michele Risi, Gilles Venturini, Tania Di Mascio, Rocco Zaccagnino, Vincenzo Deufemia, Delfina Malandrino, Paloma Diaz, Antonio Fernandez Anta, Ebad Banissi, Theodor G. Wyeld, Muhammad Sarfraz, Fatma Bouali, Mark W. McK. Bannatyne, Fragkiskos Papadopoulo, Ugo Erra, Veronica Rossano, Anna Ursyn, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Rita Francese
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages12-18
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781538672020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Dec 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Conference Information Visualisation - Biomedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments and Geometric Modelling and Imaging, IV 2018 - Salerno, Italy
Duration: 10 Jul 201813 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameInformation Visualisation - Biomedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments and Geometric Modelling and Imaging, IV 2018

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference Information Visualisation - Biomedical Visualization, Visualisation on Built and Rural Environments and Geometric Modelling and Imaging, IV 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CitySalerno
Period10/07/1813/07/18

Keywords

  • Agent-Modeling
  • Crowd-Behavior-Simulation
  • Social-Force-Models
  • Spatial-Temporal-Texture

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