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The VirtUs team at the Inria Centre at the University of Rennes is internationally recognized for its work in crowd simulation and the study of collective human behaviour. This postdoctoral position is part of the FOUL-X project (Programme Inria Quadrant), which aims to develop a new generation of crowd simulators capable of capturing the specific dynamics of crowds in real-world public spaces.

A key challenge in crowd simulation is the lack of datasets documenting the variety of crowd dynamics observed in different environments. Existing datasets are sparse and rarely capture the diversity of behaviours that emerge from different populations, activities, and spatial configurations. FOUL-X addresses this gap by designing and conducting field acquisition campaigns across multiple sites in France, with the goal of building an open, large-scale dataset of crowd dynamics.

This postdoc focuses on the da...