Abstract:Inspired by Gustave Lebon's idea of crowds as single-minded entities, we present a novel approach to describe the behavior of a crowd as a single entity, based on the global movement of the entire aggregate of people conforming the crowd. The present work significantly differs from existing literature where the behavior of single individuals within the crowd are the building blocks to describe crowd behavior. A bidimensional neural gas network is implemented to learn the topology of the physical environment in… Show more
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