Vision Aware Continuum Crowds

Abstract

Crowd simulation has received increasing attention for two decades because potential applications of crowd simulators can be found in various societal domains. The continuum crowd model puts all information related to the decision-making process in a single equation, which can then be solved by a Fast Marching Method approach. In this paper we propose several improvements to the continuum crowd model: a new governing equation, a new collision avoidance method, and, our major contribution, we add vision capabilities to the characters, thus making them able to collect new information about their surrounding environment and to reconsider path planning according to up-to-date data.