TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zawidzki, Machi
AU  - Chraibi, Mohcine
AU  - Nishinari, Katsuhiro
TI  - Crowd-Z: The user-friendly framework for crowd simulation on an architectural floor plan
JO  - Pattern recognition letters
VL  - 39
SN  - 0167-8655
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - FZJ-2013-06638
SP  - S0167865513004170
PY  - 2013
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000335906100011
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.patrec.2013.10.025
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/141460
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