Crowd counting is very important in many tasks such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public security, and urban planning, so it is a very important part of the intelligent transportation system. However, achieving an accurate crowd counting and generating a precise density map are still challenging tasks due to the occlusion, perspective distortion, complex backgrounds, and varying scales. In addition, most of the existing methods focus only on the accuracy of crowd counting without considering the correctness of a density distribution; namely, there are many false negatives and false positives in a generated density map. To address this issue, we propose a novel encoder-decoder Convolution Neural Network (CNN) that fuses the feature maps in both encoding and decoding sub-networks to generate a more reasonable density map and estimate the number of people more accurately. Furthermore, we introduce a new evaluation method named the Patch Absolute Error (PAE) which is more appropriate to measure the accuracy of a density map. The extensive experiments on several existing public crowd counting datasets demonstrate that our approach achieves better performance than the current state-of-the-art methods. Lastly, considering the cross-scene crowd counting in practice, we evaluate our model on some cross-scene datasets. The results show our method has a good performance in cross-scene datasets.
Crowd Density Estimation Using Fusion of Multi-Layer Features
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 22 , 8 ; 4776-4787
2021-08-01
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Englisch
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