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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 automatically adapting to the specific dynamics of a given environment or situation.

Current crowd simulation models rely on simplified, universal rules that fail to capture the diversity of behaviours observed in real-world settings. FOUL-X challenges this paradigm by exploring data-driven approaches that learn crowd dynamics directly from field observations. This requires addressing open scientific questions on how to represent crowd data, which learning architectures are best suited to capture collective behaviours, and how to evaluate the realism of learned simulations.

This postdoc focuses...