Data-Driven Crowd Motion Modeling With Group Properties Analysis

Traditional crowd evacuation simulation methods focus on the analysis of individual behavior in the crowd, but ignore the analysis of potential group properties in the process of crowd motion, which reduces the visual realism of the crowd evacuation simulation process. During crowd motion, crowds cause unconscious self-organization due to common destinations and social relationships, thus forming groups. Considering the influence of group properties on crowd motion is important to improve the visual realism of crowd motion simulation. To address this problem, we propose a crowd motion modeling method for group properties analysis (GPA-CMM). First, we build a data-driven group properties quantification (DGPQ) model to describe the characteristics of group motion accurately. In the model, we divide the crowd into several groups, extract motion properties of the crowd, and quantify the features of intra-group stability and inter-group conflict. Then, in order to analyze their influences of group properties, we build a stability and conflict based crowd motion analysis (SC-CMA) model. Finally, we implement a crowd simulation system based on SC-CMA, visualize the results of the theoretical analysis in a graphical way. The experimental results show that the method can simulate crowd motion more realistically.