Relating Real Crowds with Virtual Crowds

This chapter describes some reflections concerning the challenge of capturing information from real crowds to relate it with virtual crowds. Three parts are discussed here: (i) a study undertaken on the motion and behavior of real crowds, where the goal is to identify some patterns of the behaviors of real people to be used subsequently in virtual crowds, (ii) discussion of a few sociological crowd aspects, and (iii) computer vision methods as automatic ways to capture information from real life to guide virtual crowds.

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