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Flash Crowd Detection within the realms of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) [PDF]
, 2008 It is truly a challenge to detect a network phenomenon with an unpredictable persona. Due to the simultaneous dependency on network traffic and end users, events such as Flash Crowds are hard to predict.
Hutchison, D. +4 more
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Social and Spatial Representations of the Nerd in Donnie Darko
Exchanges, 2022 The nerds of 20th and 21st century global pop and visual culture have taken various forms over the decades. In a plethora of media - from video games to comic books to film - individuals associated with this subject position have typically been shown to
Kwasu David Tembo
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A Hybrid Tracking System of Full-Body Motion Inside Crowds
Sensors, 2021 For our understanding of the dynamics inside crowds, reliable empirical data are needed, which could enable increases in safety and comfort for pedestrians and the design of models reflecting the real dynamics. A well-calibrated camera system can extract
Maik Boltes +2 more
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German crowd-investing platforms: Literature review and survey [PDF]
, 2016 This article presents a comprehensive overview of the current German crowd-investing market drawing on a data-set of 31 crowd-investing platforms including the analysis of 265 completed projects. While crowd-investing market still only represents a niche
David Grundy +3 more
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A Turing test for crowds [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The accuracy and believability of crowd simulations underpins computational studies of human collective behaviour, with implications for urban design, policing, security and many other areas.
Jamie Webster, Martyn Amos
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Coordinated crowd simulation with topological scene analysis [PDF]
, 2016 This paper proposes a new algorithm to produce globally coordinated crowds in an environment with multiple paths and obstacles. Simple greedy crowd control methods easily lead to congestion at bottlenecks within scenes, as the characters do not cooperate
Taku Komura +6 more
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On Crowd Density Estimation for Surveillance
, 2006 The goal of this work is to use computer vision to measure crowd density in outdoor scenes. Crowd density estimation is an important task in crowd monitoring. The assessment is carried out using images of a graduation scene which illustrated variation of
Rahmalan, Hidayah +5 more
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Texture-based Homogeneity Analysis for Crowd Scene Modelling and Abnormality Detection [PDF]
Video-based crowd behaviour analysis techniques aim at tackling challenging problems such as detecting abnormal crowd behaviours and tracking specific individuals from complex real life scenes.
Xu, Zhijie, Wang, Jing
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Pluralistic ambiance and urban socialisation
Ambiances, 2013 In this article we propose to describe the ambiance in one of the oldest cosmopolitan neighbourhoods of Paris, La Goutte d’Or. We will analyse the currents driving public life, which has clung to this space despite “urban renewal” policies spanning 30 ...
Virginie Milliot
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WORLD POLITICS NETWORK: FROM CONCEPTUALIZATION PROBLEM TO THE CROWD GLOBALIZATION
Сравнительная политика, 2015 The article deals with theoretical problems associated with understanding of world politics as a network object. The author assumes that the transformation of world politics in a global, global network actualizes the study of the individual as its most ...
Dmitry Feldman
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