Simulating Heterogeneous Crowds with Interactive Behaviors

ISBN-13: 9780367658359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 266 str.

Nuria Pelechano; Jan M. Allbeck; Mubbasir Kapadia

Opis

This book provides a deep understanding of state-of-art methods for simulation of heterogeneous crowds in computer graphics. It will cover different aspects that are necessary to achieve plausible crowd behaviors. The book will be a review of the most recent literature in this field that can help professionals and graduate students interested in

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 Navigation: Overview; Constraint-Aware Navigation; 3D model representation for navigation meshes. Part 3 Functional Purposeful Populace ( Heterogeneous Behavior): Functional crowds and psychological models; Learning heterogeneous behaviors from real world; Designing and authoring functional purposeful human characters in virtual environments; Authoring crowds with crowd patches; ○ Interactive Editing of Crowd Animations. Part 4 Realism: Improving local movement and foot placement for real time crowds; Perceptual Evaluation of crowds; Statistical techniques to enhance and evaluate the realism of the crowd behavior; Pedestrian, Crowd and Evacuation Dynamics. Part 5 Analysis and Evaluation: Quantitative methods to evaluate crowd simulation; Qualitative evaluation of crowds through presence experiments; Data-driven crowd evaluation; Statistical techniques for crowd evaluation. Part 6 Applications: Entertainment; Safety; Golaem Crowd Part 7 Research for the future.

O autorze

Nuria Pelechano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Jan M. Allbeck, George Mason University

Mubbasir Kapadia, Disney Research Zurich / Rutgers University

Norman I. Badler, University of Pennsylvania