Given the increase in frequency and overall unpredictability, flash crowds have been the bane on internet website. This paper introduces FCAN, a flexibly adaptive network built on cache proxy server layer, transiting architecture between C/S and P2P mode according to the real-time network traffics, as a possible approach to address the flash crowds. The paper concludes the characteristics of fl...

For many applications, exploring empty virtual cities is not sufficient: streets and squares need to be populated by crowds of virtual humans. This position paper addresses the problem of generating such crowds when the scale of the city prevents the use of standard simulation methods. We first present the concept of crowd patches and review their advantages and drawbacks for animating large cr...

Figure 1: The synthetic crowds (Right) learned the spatial arrangements and loco-motion styles from the real crowds (Left). These show lining up at a ticket booth (Up) and spectating at a performance (Bottom).

Simulating trajectories of virtual crowds is a commonly encountered task in Computer Graphics. Several recent works have applied Reinforcement Learning methods to animate agents, however they often make different design choices when it comes the fundamental simulation setup. Each these with reasonable justification for its use, so not obvious what their real impact, and how affect results. In t...