Crowdsourcing the identification of studies for COVID-19 related Cochrane Rapid Reviews.
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DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1559
Abstract: BACKGROUND Utilization of crowdsourcing within evidence synthesis has increased over the last decade. Crowdsourcing platform Cochrane Crowd has engaged a global community of 22,000 people from 170 countries. The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity to… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; task; cochrane; crowdsourcing identification ... See more keywords
Designing Energy Efficient Strategies Using Markov Decision Process for Crowd-Sensing Applications
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DOI: 10.1007/s11036-020-01522-6
Abstract: In mobile crowd-sensing, smartphone users take part in sensing and then share the data to the server (cloud) and get an incentive. These data can be utilized for providing better services to improve quality of… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; energy; markov decision; decision process ... See more keywords
Detecting anomalous crowd scenes by oriented Tracklets’ approach in active contour region
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DOI: 10.1007/s11042-019-07806-8
Abstract: Video imagery based crowd analysis has become a topic of great interest for public safety at the venues of mass gathering events. This paper presents a novel approach to detect anomalous scene in high density… read more here.
Keywords: approach active; crowd; oriented tracklets; tracklets approach ... See more keywords
Pixel-Wise Crowd Understanding via Synthetic Data
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DOI: 10.1007/s11263-020-01365-4
Abstract: Crowd analysis via computer vision techniques is an important topic in the field of video surveillance, which has wide-spread applications including crowd monitoring, public safety, space design and so on. Pixel-wise crowd understanding is the… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; crowd understanding; understanding via; synthetic data ... See more keywords
Preparedness for Mass Gatherings: A Simulation-Based Framework for Flow Control and Management Using Crowd Monitoring Data
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DOI: 10.1007/s13369-020-05322-8
Abstract: Proactive management at mass gatherings is vital to ensure safe crowd evacuation during emergencies. The increasing number of crowd incidents and casualties during the Hajj season is one of the major concerns for authorities in… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; management; mass gatherings; preparedness mass ... See more keywords
A review of studies on understanding crowd dynamics in the context of crowd safety in mass religious gatherings
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.07.017
Abstract: Understanding the principles and applications of crowd dynamics in mass gatherings is very important, specifically with respect to crowd risk analysis and crowd safety. Historical trends from India and other countries suggest that the stampedes… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; crowd safety; religious gatherings; crowd dynamics ... See more keywords
Propagation characteristics of the pedestrian shockwave in dense crowd: Experiment and simulation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101287
Abstract: Abstract Crowd shockwave is a very common phenomenon in dense crowd, which is likely to cause crowd destabilization and stampede accidents. Several researches on crowd shockwave have been reported, but its explicit concept and particular… read more here.
Keywords: propagation; crowd; crowd shockwave; simulation ... See more keywords
Shipping outside the box. Environmental impact and stakeholder analysis of a crowd logistics platform in Belgium
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.210
Abstract: Abstract Crowd logistics is an alternative to traditional home deliveries by parcel companies and is believed to be more sustainable. The idea of crowd logistics is that parcels and passengers are co-transported along a passenger… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; logistics platform; analysis; crowd logistics ... See more keywords
Removing background interference for crowd counting via de-background detail convolutional network
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2018.12.047
Abstract: Abstract Crowd counting is a challenging vision task which aims to accurately estimate the crowd count from a single image. To this end, we propose a novel architecture called De-background Detail Convolutional Network (DDCN) to… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; background detail; interference; detail convolutional ... See more keywords
Investigation of crowd’s aggregation measurement based on an entropy model
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104714
Abstract: Abstract Mass events have led to many deadly crowd crushes and crowd disasters. In order to avoid crowd accidents, a number of the studies have been conducted. For the people in public place, even a… read more here.
Keywords: crowd; aggregation; crowd aggregation; based entropy ... See more keywords
Investigating the crowd-drawing effect, on passersby, of pseudo-crowds using multiple robots
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DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2022.2143242
Abstract: Due to their conversational skills, service robots are expected to replace posters or digital signage as a new advertising medium. These robots must achieve two goals to obtain maximum advertising opportunities in a public space:… read more here.
Keywords: advertising medium; crowd; multiple robots; advertising ... See more keywords