Cognitive Model of Agent Exploration with Vision and Signage Understanding

IALH Research Fellow Brandon Haworth has co-authored a research article with Colin Johnson entitled Cognitive Model of Agent Exploration with Vision and Signage Understanding. The article was published in Computer Graphics Forum. Abstract: Signage systems play an essential role in ensuring safe, stress-free, and efficient navigation for the occupants of indoor spaces. Crowd simulations with …

Impact of Manikin Display on Perception of Spatial Planning

Publication alert! IALH Research Fellow Brandon Haworth has co-authored a research article entitled Impact of Manikin Display on Perception of Spatial Planning which was presented at the SAP ’22: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2022. Other authors include Matthew Schwartz, Muhammad Usman, Petros Faloutsos, and Mubbasir Kapadia. Abstract: The visualization of spaces, both virtual and …

Automatic estimation of parametric saliency maps (PSMs) for autonomous pedestrians

  Publication Alert! IALH Research Fellow Brandon Haworth has co-authored a journal article entitled “Automatic estimation of parametric saliency maps (PSMs) for autonomous pedestrians”. Other authors include Melissa Kremer, Peter Caruana, Mubbasir Kapadia, and Petros Faloutsos. The article was published in Computers & Graphics. Abstract:  Modeling visual attention is an important aspect of simulating realistic …

Representative Synthetic Crowds for Inclusive Environment Design

Publication Alert! IALH Research Fellow Brandon Haworth has published a conference paper with Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos entitled “Representative Synthetic Crowds for Inclusive Environment Design”. This paper was published for the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR). Abstract: Synthetic crowds serve as a powerful tool for numerous applications across …

Heterogeneous Crowd Simulation using Parametric Reinforcement Learning

Publication Alert! IALH Faculty Affiliate Brandon Haworth (Computer Science) has published an article with Kaidong Hu, Glen Berseth, Vladimir Pavlovic; Petros Faloutsos, and Mubbasir Kapadia entitled “Heterogeneous Crowd Simulation using Parametric Reinforcement Learning” in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Abstract: Agent-based synthetic crowd simulation affords the cost-effective large-scale simulation and animation of interacting …

PSM: Parametric Saliency Maps for Autonomous Pedestrians

Publication Alert! IALH Affiliate Brandon Haworth has published a short paper with co-authors Melissa Kremer, Peter Caruana, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos entitled PSM: Parametric Saliency Maps for Autonomous Pedestrians. It was published for MIG ’21: Motion, Interaction and Games Conference Abstract:  Modeling visual attention is an important aspect of simulating realistic virtual humans. This work proposes …