%0 Journal Article
%A Zawidzki, Machi
%A Chraibi, Mohcine
%A Nishinari, Katsuhiro
%T Crowd-Z: The user-friendly framework for crowd simulation on an architectural floor plan
%J Pattern recognition letters
%V 39
%@ 0167-8655
%C Amsterdam [u.a.]
%I Elsevier
%M FZJ-2013-06638
%P S0167865513004170
%D 2013
%X This paper introduces Crowd-Z (CZ): a framework that provides a user-friendly platform where architects can perform simple crowd simulations on floor plans. A simple but robust and flexible agent-based system is used for modeling of the crowd dynamics. Such simulations can be performed at any stage of design – from rough sketches to the final blueprints. CZ allows acquiring the layouts for the simulations in a number of ways: freehand sketches, importing already prepared images and appropriating preprocessed images from commercially available Computer Aided Design programs. These three methods are illustrated with practical examples, followed by a number of simulations compared with the literature or other commercially available programs.
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%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000335906100011
%R 10.1016/j.patrec.2013.10.025
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/141460