Towards a quantitative approach for comparing crowds

  • Authors:
  • Soraia R. Musse;Vinicius J. Cassol;Cláudio R. Jung

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga, 6681, Porto Alegre, RSBrazil;Computer Science Department, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga, 6681, Porto Alegre, RSBrazil;Institute of Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RSBrazil

  • Venue:
  • Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new model to quantitatively compare global flow characteristics of two crowds. The proposed approach explores a 4-D histogram that contains information on the local velocity (speed and orientation) of each spatial position, and the comparison is made using histogram distances. The 4-D histogram also allows the comparison of specific characteristics, such as distribution of orientations only, speed only, relative spatial occupancy only, and combinations of such features. Experimental results indicate that the proposed quantitative metric correlates with visual inspection. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.