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Visual crowd surveillance through a hydrodynamics lens

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People in high-density crowds appear to move with the flow of the crowd, like particles in a liquid.

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                    Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 12
                    December 2011
                    121 pages
                    ISSN:0001-0782
                    EISSN:1557-7317
                    DOI:10.1145/2043174
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