Interactive Control of Large-Crowd Navigation in Virtual Environments Using Vector Fields

Author

Jin, Xiaogang ; Xu, Jiayi ; Wang, Charlie C.L. ; Shengsheng Huang ; Zhang, Jun

Author_Institution

Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou

Volume

28

Issue

6

fYear

2008

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Providing interactive control is a hot topic in crowd-navigation research. Here, the authors propose a simple but effective way for authoring a crowd scene. With their governing tool, users can easily drive the flow of crowds by sketching velocities on anchor points in the scene. This approach is fast enough to allow on-the-fly modification of vector fields.

Keywords

radial basis function networks; virtual reality; interactive control; interactive path design; large-crowd navigation; radial basis functions; vector fields; virtual environments; Animation; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Art; Computational modeling; Humans; Layout; Navigation; Research and development; Safety; Virtual environment; anisotropic RBF; crowd animation; navigation control; radial basis functions; vector fields; Computer Graphics; Computer Simulation; Crowding; Humans; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Information Dissemination; Information Storage and Retrieval; Models, Theoretical; Software; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2008.117

Filename

4670099