Publications

Publications by Dr. A. Corbetta

Submitted Papers

Journal Papers

2025 The Influence of Macroscopic Pedestrian Structures on Train Boarding Efficiency - Transp. Res. Interdiscip. Persp. 29. 101319
2025 Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2023 - Saf. Sci. 184. 106759 (Special issue editorial)
2024 System-Phenomenology: The empirical case for collectives in mediation theory - Journal of Human-Technology Relations. 2. 1-22
2023 Physics of Human Crowds - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. Vol. 14:311-333
2023 Steering self-organisation through confinement - Soft Matter. 19, 1695-1704
2022 Numerical proof of shell model turbulence closure - Phys. Rev. Fluids. 7, L082401

Book Chapters

2024 Public-space sonification for pedestrian trajectory nudging - Traffic and Granular Flow '22. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 443. Springer
2024 A psychological approach to understading microscopic and macroscopic structures during train boarding - Traffic and Granular Flow '22. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 443. Springer
2022 How to balance individual and collective values after COVID-19? Ethical reflections on crowd management at Dutch train stations - In: Dennis, M.J., Ishmaev, G., Umbrello, S., van den Hoven, J. (eds) Values for a Post-Pandemic Future. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 40. pp. 215-232. Springer.
2020 High-statistics modeling of complex pedestrian avoidance scenarios - Crowd Dynamics (vol. 2), L. Gibelli Editor, Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham.
2019 Path-integral representation of diluted pedestrian dynamics - in 'Complexity Science. An introduction'. 329-345. Eds. M. Peletier, R. Van Santen, E. Steur. World Scientific.
2016 Asymmetric pedestrian dynamics on a staircase landing from continuous measurements - In W. Daamen & V.L. Knoop (Eds.), Traffic and Granular Flow '15 (pp. 49-56). Berlin: Springer

Conference Proceedings

2022 Modeling routing choices in unidirectional pedestrian flows - Collective Dynamics, v.6, p. 1-9
2022 Towards Sound-based Crowd Management: Investigating Sonification for Pedestrian Steering - AM '22. Proceedings of the 17th International Audio Mostly Conference. p32-35.
2020 A large-scale real-life crowd steering experiment via arrow-like stimuli - Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2018. Collective Dynamics, 5, 61-68
2020 Accurate pedestrian localization via height-augmented HOG - Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2018. Collective Dynamics, 5, 33-40
2020 Forecasting visitors' behaviour in crowded museums - Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2018. Collective Dynamics, 5, pp. 499-501
2019 Measurement and analysis of visitors’ trajectories in crowded museums - 2019 IMEKO TC-4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
2019 A Glossary for Research on Human Crowd Dynamics - Collective Dynamics, 4, 1-13
2019 StampNet: unsupervised multi-class object discovery - IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2019), pp. 2951-2955
2017 Weakly supervised training of deep convolutional neural networks for overhead pedestrian localization in depth fields - IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Signal Processing for Understanding Crowd Dynamics)
2017 TurBase: a software platform for research in experimental and numerical fluid dynamics - International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017 - 4th International Symposium on Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications)
2017 Depth Driven People Counting Using Deep Region Proposal Network - IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2017)
2017 Modelling framework of pedestrian-footbridge interaction in vertical direction - Procedia Engineering 199, 2901-2906. (10th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2017)
2016 Continuous measurements of real-life bidirectional pedestrian flows on a wide walkway - Proceedings of Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2016, 18-24 (Special Issue on Collective Dynamics)
2014 High statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics - Transportation Research Procedia, 2, 96-104
2014 Multiscale probabilistic evaluation of the footbridge crowding. Part 2: Crossing pedestrian position - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014, 937-944
2014 Multiscale probabilistic evaluation of the footbridge crowding. Part 1: Incoming pedestrian density - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014, 929-937
2014 Pedestrian-structure interaction in the vertical direction: coupled oscillator-force model for vibration serviceability assessment - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014, 915-920

Others

2019 Quantifying the quality of pedestrian trajectory measurements: ProRail consultancy report - Internal Report
2017 Overhead pedestrian tracking for large scale real-life crowd dynamics analyses - New approaches to evacuation modelling, Lund University Fire Safety Engineering Report, 40-51, E. Ronchi editor (as part of the 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science - invited panelist contribution)
2013 Oxygen transport and consumption in germinating seeds - 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, SWI 2013, At Leiden, Volume: Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, pp. 5-30

Theses

2016 Multiscale crowd dynamics: physical analysis, modeling and applications - Ph.D. Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology
2011 A general purpose object oriented particle-in-cell code with applications to FRC and Tokamak - Msc. Thesis, Polytechnic University of Turin, Los Alamos National Lab.
2009 An introduction to the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics - Bsc. Thesis, Polytechnic University of Turin (in Italian)

Invited talks

2025 The active flow of pedestrian crowds. - The active flow of pedestrian crowds (Invited master lecture on physics of complex systems). Utrecht U. January.
2025 TBD - Population Dynamics: From Data to Models - Keynote speaker. Inria, Nice, France. March
2024 Understanding and modeling the flow of human crowds - Understanding and modeling the flow of human crowds. EAISI Colloquium. TU/Eindhoven. January
2024 Machine learning turbulent cascades: inference and closure - Machine learning turbulent cascades: inference and closure. Differential Equations for Data Science 2024 (DEDS2024), Kanazawa, Japan (online). February
2024 Machine Learning for Turbulence - Machine Learning for Turbulence. CISM-JMBC joint advanced school on Fluids and Flows. CISM Udine. Italy. April
2024 Understanding pedestrian physics: from large-scale measurements to generative AI - Franco-German Interdisciplinary Workshop on Pedestrian Dynamics and Urban Mobility - Keynote speaker. Wuppertal. Germany. June
2024 TBD - Seminar Series on the Mathematics of Data Science. Twente. October
2023 A crowd science and More - Let Science talk - opening speech. United World College Maastrich (popular science/educational event)
2023 Machine Learning Turbulent Cascades: inference and closure - Tokamak Disruption Simulation Center. Machine Learning Turbulent Cascades: inference and closure
2023 Machine Learning Turbulent Cascades: inference and closure - CNLS Seminar (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory). Machine Learning Turbulent Cascades: inference and closure
2022 Active flow of pedestrian crowds: from large-scale measurements to variational modeling. - Colloquium of the Physics Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. March
2022 Fluctuations in Pedestrian Dynamics routing choices - Lorentz Center workshop "Self-Organization under Confinement". February
2022 How do we walk in crowds? A brief journey from crowd physics to smart environments - Public lecture Rijksmueum Boerhaave 'How do we walk in crowds? A brief journey from crowd physics to smart environments'. Leiden, NL. February.
2022 TBA - Invited lecture, Bentley Systems London. November
2022 TBA - Git up the research environment. Open Science Workshop TU/e APSE. November
2022 TBA - Invited seminar, AMOLF Amsterdam. November
2022 TBA - Git up the research environment. OSCE. Open Science Community Eindhoven
2022 Machine Learning Flowing Systems - Physics Department Colloquium 'Machine Learning Flowing Systems'. TU/Eindhoven, NL.
2022 How do people go with the flow? - How do people go with the flow? Universiteit van Nederland, public lecture.
2021 Active flow of pedestrian crowds: from large-scale measurements to variational modeling - Journ\'ees de la Mati\`ere Condens\'ee - Keynote speaker. Symposium: "Human mobility through the lens of Physics". August
2021 Active flow of pedestrian crowds: from large-scale measurements to variational modeling - 27th Symposium on Traffic Flow and Self-Driven Particle Systems. Japanese Traffic Flow Mathematics Study Group (Online/Nagoya JP). December
2019 Active flow of low-density pedestrian crowds - ICTP. International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Quantitative Life Science Invited seminar. May
2019 Deep learning of turbulence velocity signals - JMBC contact group Turbulence - Colloquium day. April
2019 High-statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics, modeling and control - International Conference in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM19) - Symposium: "Modeling and calibration in pedestrian dynamics". July
2019 Learning turbulence from deep learning - California State University Long Beach - Mathematics Colloquium. November
2018 Illumination-driven crowd management - Intelligent Lighting Institute TU/e. Event: "Lighting Metropolis visits Eindhoven". Invited seminar. April
2018 High statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics and modeling - Tehran University, Department of Physics, Invited seminar. May
2017 High statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics and modeling - 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science. Invited panelist talk at "New approaches to evacuation modeling". June
2017 High statistics measurements of pedestrian dynamics and modeling - Juelich Forschungszentrum. Invited seminar. February

Selected Conference Posters

2017 Moving Light: can light steer a crowd? - ILIAD Intelligent Lighting Institute TU/e outreach event 2017 (winner of 2nd best poster)
2017 The role of fluctuations and interactions in pedestrian dynamics - Physics@Veldhoven, Veldhoven 17-18/01
2017 Improving Measurements of Pedestrian Dynamics using Deep Neural Networks - Traffic and Granular Flow 17, Washington DC
2011 LAPS parallel data and communication for particle method - APS, Division of Plasma Physics, Salt Lake City, 15/11

Popular Science Articles

2018 Moving light: understanding and steering the flow of pedestrian crowds - ILI Spring Magazine 2018 (Intelligent Lighting Institute TU/e magazine)
2016 INFLUX: a GLOW installation and large scale naturalistic experiment - ILI GLOW Magazine 2016 (Intelligent Lighting Institute TU/e magazine)