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Book Modeling  Simulation and Visual Analysis of Crowds

Download or read book Modeling Simulation and Visual Analysis of Crowds written by Saad Ali and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last several years there has been a growing interest in developing computational methodologies for modeling and analyzing movements and behaviors of ‘crowds' of people. This interest spans several scientific areas that includes Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Pedestrian Evacuation Dynamics. Despite the fact that these different scientific fields are trying to model the same physical entity (i.e. a crowd of people), research ideas have evolved independently. As a result each discipline has developed techniques and perspectives that are characteristically their own. The goal of this book is to provide the readers a comprehensive map towards the common goal of better analyzing and synthesizing the pedestrian movement in dense, heterogeneous crowds. The book is organized into different parts that consolidate various aspects of research towards this common goal, namely the modeling, simulation, and visual analysis of crowds. Through this book, readers will see the common ideas and vision as well as the different challenges and techniques, that will stimulate novel approaches to fully grasping “crowds."

Book Crowd Simulation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Thalmann
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-10-03
  • ISBN : 1447144503
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Crowd Simulation written by Daniel Thalmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into the methods and techniques used in simulating crowds has developed extensively within the last few years, particularly in the areas of video games and film. Despite recent impressive results when simulating and rendering thousands of individuals, many challenges still exist in this area. The comparison of simulation with reality, the realistic appearance of virtual humans and their behavior, group structure and their motion, and collision avoidance are just some examples of these challenges. For most of the applications of crowds, it is now a requirement to have real-time simulations – which is an additional challenge, particularly when crowds are very large. Crowd Simulation analyses these challenges in depth and suggests many possible solutions. Daniel Thalmann and Soraia Musse share their experiences and expertise in the application of: · Population modeling · Virtual human animation · Behavioral models for crowds · The connection between virtual and real crowds · Path planning and navigation · Visual attention models · Geometric and populated semantic environments · Crowd rendering The second edition presents techniques and methods developed since the authors first covered the simulation of crowds in 2007. Crowd Simulation includes in-depth discussions on the techniques of path planning, including a new hybrid approach between navigation graphs and potential-based methods. The importance of gaze attention – individuals appearing conscious of their environment and of others – is introduced, and a free-of-collision method for crowds is also discussed.

Book Computer Vision and Image Processing

Download or read book Computer Vision and Image Processing written by Satish Kumar Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume set (CCIS 1367-1368) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2020, held in Prayagraj, India, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partially held online. The 134 papers papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 352 submissions. The papers present recent research on such topics as biometrics, forensics, content protection, image enhancement/super-resolution/restoration, motion and tracking, image or video retrieval, image, image/video processing for autonomous vehicles, video scene understanding, human-computer interaction, document image analysis, face, iris, emotion, sign language and gesture recognition, 3D image/video processing, action and event detection/recognition, medical image and video analysis, vision-based human GAIT analysis, remote sensing, and more.

Book Image Analysis and Processing     ICIAP 2022

Download or read book Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP 2022 written by Stan Sclaroff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings set LNCS 13231, 13232, and 13233 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, which was held during May 23-27, 2022, in Lecce, Italy, The 168 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 307 submissions. They deal with video analysis and understanding; pattern recognition and machine learning; deep learning; multi-view geometry and 3D computer vision; image analysis, detection and recognition; multimedia; biomedical and assistive technology; digital forensics and biometrics; image processing for cultural heritage; robot vision; etc.

Book Emotion  Personality and Cultural Aspects in Crowds

Download or read book Emotion Personality and Cultural Aspects in Crowds written by Rodolfo Migon Favaretto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practically-focused book presents a computational model for detection and analysis of pedestrian features in crowds from video sequences. The study of human behavior is a subject of great scientific interest and probably an inexhaustible source of research. The analysis of pedestrians and groups in crowds is relevant in several areas of application, such as security, entertainment, environmental and public spaces planning and social sciences. Cultural and personality aspects are attributes that can influence personal behavior and affect the group in which individuals belong. In this sense, we consider different ways of characterizing individuals and groups in crowds with respect to their relationship with the geometrical space and time. We discuss and describe an approach to extract and analyse, from the Computer Science point of view, emotions, personalities and cultural aspects from crowds and groups of pedestrians, using Computer Vision techniques. Extracting characteristics from real pedestrians and crowds, benefits other areas, such as: architecture and design (planning spaces to maximize pedestrian and group-environment fit); security and surveillance (design of evacuation plans considering characteristics of the crowds and detection of abnormal events); entertainment (more realistic crowds in movies and games reproducing characteristics from real pedestrians and crowds); social sciences (understanding of human behavior), among others. A big challenge in this area of research is the comparison with real life data. In this book, we successfully compared the results of the proposed approach with Psychology literature, where several studies aimed to analysis human behavior.

Book Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision

Download or read book Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision written by Vittorio Murino and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision provides a multidisciplinary perspective on how to solve the problem of group and crowd analysis and modeling, combining insights from the social sciences with technological ideas in computer vision and pattern recognition. The book answers many unresolved issues in group and crowd behavior, with Part One providing an introduction to the problems of analyzing groups and crowds that stresses that they should not be considered as completely diverse entities, but as an aggregation of people. Part Two focuses on features and representations with the aim of recognizing the presence of groups and crowds in image and video data. It discusses low level processing methods to individuate when and where a group or crowd is placed in the scene, spanning from the use of people detectors toward more ad-hoc strategies to individuate group and crowd formations. Part Three discusses methods for analyzing the behavior of groups and the crowd once they have been detected, showing how to extract semantic information, predicting/tracking the movement of a group, the formation or disaggregation of a group/crowd and the identification of different kinds of groups/crowds depending on their behavior. The final section focuses on identifying and promoting datasets for group/crowd analysis and modeling, presenting and discussing metrics for evaluating the pros and cons of the various models and methods. This book gives computer vision researcher techniques for segmentation and grouping, tracking and reasoning for solving group and crowd modeling and analysis, as well as more general problems in computer vision and machine learning. - Presents the first book to cover the topic of modeling and analysis of groups in computer vision - Discusses the topics of group and crowd modeling from a cross-disciplinary perspective, using social science anthropological theories translated into computer vision algorithms - Focuses on group and crowd analysis metrics - Discusses real industrial systems dealing with the problem of analyzing groups and crowds

Book Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns

Download or read book Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns written by Nicolas Tsapatsoulis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume set LNCS 13052 and 13053 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2021, held virtually, in September 2021. The 87 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections across the 2 volumes: 3D vision, biomedical image and pattern analysis; machine learning; feature extractions; object recognition; face and gesture, guess the age contest, biometrics, cryptography and security; and segmentation and image restoration.

Book Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Download or read book Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence written by Bhabesh Deka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set of LNCS 11941 and 11942 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2019, held in Tezpur, India, in December 2019. The 131 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 341 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Pattern Recognition; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Soft and Evolutionary Computing; Image Processing; Medical Image Processing; Bioinformatics and Biomedical Signal Processing; Information Retrieval; Remote Sensing; Signal and Video Processing; and Smart and Intelligent Sensors.

Book Computer Vision for Assistive Healthcare

Download or read book Computer Vision for Assistive Healthcare written by Leo Marco and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Vision for Assistive Healthcare describes how advanced computer vision techniques provide tools to support common human needs, such as mental functioning, personal mobility, sensory functions, daily living activities, image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and how language processing and computer graphics cooperate with robotics to provide such tools. Users will learn about the emerging computer vision techniques for supporting mental functioning, algorithms for analyzing human behavior, and how smart interfaces and virtual reality tools lead to the development of advanced rehabilitation systems able to perform human action and activity recognition. In addition, the book covers the technology behind intelligent wheelchairs, how computer vision technologies have the potential to assist blind people, and about the computer vision-based solutions recently employed for safety and health monitoring. - Gives the state-of-the-art computer vision techniques and tools for assistive healthcare - Includes a broad range of topic areas, ranging from image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning to robotics, natural language processing and computer graphics - Presents a wide range of application areas, ranging from mobility, sensory substitution, and safety and security, to mental and physical rehabilitation and training - Written by leading researchers in this growing field of research - Describes the outstanding research challenges that still need to be tackled, giving researchers good indicators of research opportunities

Book Handbook of Research on Design  Control  and Modeling of Swarm Robotics

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Design Control and Modeling of Swarm Robotics written by Tan, Ying and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on robotics applications have grown substantially in recent years, with swarm robotics being a relatively new area of research. Inspired by studies in swarm intelligence and robotics, swarm robotics facilitates interactions between robots as well as their interactions with the environment. The Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics is a collection of the most important research achievements in swarm robotics thus far, covering the growing areas of design, control, and modeling of swarm robotics. This handbook serves as an essential resource for researchers, engineers, graduates, and senior undergraduates with interests in swarm robotics and its applications.

Book Social Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems

Download or read book Social Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems written by Paul K. Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes frontiers in social-behavioral modeling for contexts as diverse as national security, health, and on-line social gaming. Recent scientific and technological advances have created exciting opportunities for such improvements. However, the book also identifies crucial scientific, ethical, and cultural challenges to be met if social-behavioral modeling is to achieve its potential. Doing so will require new methods, data sources, and technology. The volume discusses these, including those needed to achieve and maintain high standards of ethics and privacy. The result should be a new generation of modeling that will advance science and, separately, aid decision-making on major social and security-related subjects despite the myriad uncertainties and complexities of social phenomena. Intended to be relatively comprehensive in scope, the volume balances theory-driven, data-driven, and hybrid approaches. The latter may be rapidly iterative, as when artificial-intelligence methods are coupled with theory-driven insights to build models that are sound, comprehensible and usable in new situations. With the intent of being a milestone document that sketches a research agenda for the next decade, the volume draws on the wisdom, ideas and suggestions of many noted researchers who draw in turn from anthropology, communications, complexity science, computer science, defense planning, economics, engineering, health systems, medicine, neuroscience, physics, political science, psychology, public policy and sociology. In brief, the volume discusses: Cutting-edge challenges and opportunities in modeling for social and behavioral science Special requirements for achieving high standards of privacy and ethics New approaches for developing theory while exploiting both empirical and computational data Issues of reproducibility, communication, explanation, and validation Special requirements for models intended to inform decision making about complex social systems

Book Proceedings of 2016 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference

Download or read book Proceedings of 2016 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference written by Yingmin Jia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings present selected research papers from CISC’16, held in Xiamen, China. The topics include Multi-agent system, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Complex systems, Computation intelligence and soft computing, Intelligent control, Advanced control technology, Robotics and applications, Intelligent information processing, Iterative learning control, Machine Learning, and etc. Engineers and researchers from academia, industry, and government can get an insight view of the solutions combining ideas from multiple disciplines in the field of intelligent systems.

Book Intelligent Robotics and Applications

Download or read book Intelligent Robotics and Applications written by YongAn Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume set LNAI 10462, LNAI 10463, and LNAI 10464 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2017. The 235 papers presented in the three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 310 submissions. The papers in this second volume of the set are organized in topical sections on industrial robot and robot manufacturing; mechanism and parallel robotics; machine and robot vision; robot grasping and control.

Book Image Analysis and Recognition

Download or read book Image Analysis and Recognition written by Aurélio Campilho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2016, held in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, in July 2016. The 79 revised full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Advances in Data Analytics and Pattern Recognition with Applications, Image Enhancement and Restoration, Image Quality Assessment, Image Segmentation, Pattern Analysis and Recognition, Feature Extraction, Detection and Recognition, Matching, Motion and Tracking, 3D Computer Vision, RGB-D Camera Applications, Visual Perception in Robotics, Biometrics, Biomedical Imaging, Brain Imaging, Cardiovascular Image Analysis, Image Analysis in Ophthalmology, Document Analysis, Applications, and Obituaries. The chapter 'Morphological Separation of Clustered Nuclei in Histological Images' is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Book Modeling and Simulation of Discrete Event Systems

Download or read book Modeling and Simulation of Discrete Event Systems written by Byoung Kyu Choi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer modeling and simulation (M&S) allows engineers to study and analyze complex systems. Discrete-event system (DES)-M&S is used in modern management, industrial engineering, computer science, and the military. As computer speeds and memory capacity increase, so DES-M&S tools become more powerful and more widely used in solving real-life problems. Based on over 20 years of evolution within a classroom environment, as well as on decades-long experience in developing simulation-based solutions for high-tech industries, Modeling and Simulation of Discrete-Event Systems is the only book on DES-M&S in which all the major DES modeling formalisms – activity-based, process-oriented, state-based, and event-based – are covered in a unified manner: A well-defined procedure for building a formal model in the form of event graph, ACD, or state graph Diverse types of modeling templates and examples that can be used as building blocks for a complex, real-life model A systematic, easy-to-follow procedure combined with sample C# codes for developing simulators in various modeling formalisms Simple tutorials as well as sample model files for using popular off-the-shelf simulators such as SIGMA®, ACE®, and Arena® Up-to-date research results as well as research issues and directions in DES-M&S Modeling and Simulation of Discrete-Event Systems is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of simulation/industrial engineering and computer science, as well as for simulation practitioners and researchers.

Book Traffic and Granular Flow  13

Download or read book Traffic and Granular Flow 13 written by Mohcine Chraibi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the biannual series of conference proceedings, which has become a classical reference resource in traffic and granular research alike, and addresses the latest developments at the intersection of physics, engineering and computational science. These involve complex systems, in which multiple simple agents, be they vehicles or particles, give rise to surprising and fascinating phenomena. The contributions collected in these proceedings cover several research fields, all of which deal with transport. Topics include highway, pedestrian and internet traffic; granular matter; biological transport; transport networks; data acquisition; data analysis and technological applications. Different perspectives, i.e., modeling, simulations, experiments, and phenomenological observations are considered.

Book Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Download or read book Intelligent Information and Database Systems written by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2022, held Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in November 2022. The 113 full papers accepted for publication in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 406 submissions. The papers of the 2 volume-set are organized in the following topical sections: data mining and machine learning methods, advanced data mining techniques and applications, intelligent and contextual systems, natural language processing, network systems and applications, computational imaging and vision, decision support and control systems, and data modeling and processing for industry 4.0. The accepted and presented papers focus on new trends and challenges facing the intelligent information and database systems community.