Video-driven group behavior simulation based on social comparison theory

Jianxin Zhang, Hong Liu, Yan Li, Xin Qin and Shouna Wang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 512, issue C, 620-634

Abstract: In simulation studies of crowd behaviors, group behavioral modeling is the core issue of crowd simulation evacuation research. The core issue in group behavioral modeling is how to construct the group. This paper proposes examining the dissimilarities between pedestrians by tracing the trajectories of pedestrians from real videos and constructing groups under real scenes based on the dissimilarities between individuals according to the principle of common fate. The inter-group dissimilarity and intra-group dissimilarity are calculated by pedestrians’ trajectories and groups obtained. We present an improved social force model by the social comparison theory and intra-group attraction strategy combined with the data from video. In this paper, the scene information, the locations of the pedestrians, the groups of pedestrians, the intra-group dissimilarity and the inter-group dissimilarity are extracted from the real video. In addition, we considered intra-group attraction and the characteristic of the social comparison theory that lead pedestrians to gather together in emergency. Therefore, the method proposed in this paper has higher authenticity. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we qualitatively and quantitatively designed comparative experiments, respectively. The experimental results show that the method can simulate the group behavior and reproduce the evacuation of people in emergency in real scenes. This model can serve as an important tool to predict evacuation statuses in different population densities and group distributions in emergency. It provides a basis for the establishment of a system to track pedestrians and predict their congestion.

Keywords: Group behavior; Pedestrian trajectories; Dissimilarity; Social comparison theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.08.046

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