Technical Section: Emergency crowd simulation for outdoor environments

Authors:
Oğuzcan Oğuz;Ateş Akaydın;Türker Yılmaz;Uğur Güdükbay
Affiliations:
Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara, Turkey;Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara, Turkey;Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara, Turkey;Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Venue:
Computers and Graphics
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We simulate virtual crowds in emergency situations caused by an incident, such as a fire, an explosion, or a terrorist attack. We use a continuum dynamics-based approach to simulate the escaping crowd, which produces more efficient simulations than the agent-based approaches. Only the close proximity of the incident region, which includes the crowd affected by the incident, is simulated. We use a model-based rendering approach where a polygonal mesh is rendered for each agent according to the agent's skeletal motion. To speed up the animation and visualization, we employ an offline occlusion culling technique. We animate and render a pedestrian model only if it is visible according to the static visibility information computed. In the pre-processing stage, the navigable area is decomposed into a grid of cells and the from-region visibility of these cells is computed with the help of hardware occlusion queries.