Abstract The “No Free Lunch” theorem states that, averaged over all optimization problems,
without re-sampling, all optimization algorithms perform equally well. Optimization, search …

Crowd simulation has emerged in the last decade as a widely used method of visual effects,
computer games, and urban planning, etc. The improvement of hardware performance and …

This article presents a survey on crowd analysis using computer vision techniques, covering
different aspects such as people tracking, crowd density estimation, event detection …

Since the first edition of this book in 2007, there has been a fast evolution in Virtual Reality.
Palmer Luckey designed a prototype for what would become the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality …

In the everyday exercise of controlling their locomotion, humans rely on their optic flow of the
perceived environment to achieve collision-free navigation. In crowds, in spite of the …

GENERAL THEORY of Page 1 ØYVIND GRØN SIGBJØRN HERVIK EINSTEIN’S GENERAL
THEORY of RELATIVITY WITH MODERN APPLICATIONS IN COSMOLOGY Page 2 Einstein’s …

The real‐time simulation of human crowds has many applications. Simulating how the
people in a crowd move through an environment is an active and ever‐growing research …

As part of the open sourcing of the Microsoft Rocketbox avatar library for research and
academic purposes, here we discuss the importance of rigged avatars for the Virtual and …

In this paper, we investigate an application of virtual reality and artificial intelligence (AI) as a
technological combination that has a potential to improve the learning experience and …

The literature of pedestrian, crowd and evacuation dynamics is captured in its approximate
full scope and is analysed at various levels using scientometric indicators of its underlying …