EstimatingLi, MengChen, TaoLi, ZhihuaLiu, Hezi count and density maps from crowd images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring and pedestrian dynamics study. The state-of-the art deep learning approaches generally build a multi-column deep network architecture. Although such architectures perform well, the inference cost is neglected. In this paper, we apply the net-work compression to the convolutional neural network-basedConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN) crowd density estimationDensity estimation model, to reduce its storage and computation costs. Specifically, we rely on using l1-norm to select unimportant filters and physically prune them. Convolutional filters with small scaling factor value and its corresponding kernels in the next layer will be removed. The model can be trained to improve its regression performance and identify the unimportant filters at the same time. A state-of-the art model, the CSRNet, is tested in the ShanghaiTech dataset. Our method can reduce inference costs for the network significantly (up to approximately 78%) while regaining close to the original accuracy by retraining the networks.


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    Title :

    An Efficient Crowd Density Estimation Algorithm Through Network Compression


    Additional title:

    Springer Proceedings Phys.


    Contributors:
    Zuriguel, Iker (editor) / Garcimartin, Angel (editor) / Cruz, Raul (editor) / Li, Meng (author) / Chen, Tao (author) / Li, Zhihua (author) / Liu, Hezi (author)

    Published in:

    Traffic and Granular Flow 2019 ; Chapter : 21 ; 165-173


    Publication date :

    2020-11-17


    Size :

    9 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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