A Feature-Fusion-based Multi-column Convolutional Neural Network for Crowd Counting and Density Estimation

Jiaqiang Song, Qinglin Wang, Yaping Dai, Zhi Yang Jia

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Abstract

Due to the scale change caused by perspective distortion, the automatic estimation of crowd density in images with high density population is still a extremely difficult task. To address this problem, Feature-Fusion-based Multi-column Convolutional Neural Network (F2MCNN) is proposed to perform accurate crowd count estimation and provide high-quality density maps. Multi-column convolutional neural network are used to extracted multi-scale features distributed in different regions in a single crowd image. In this paper, the intermediate network nodes of different columns are connected by hopping to fuse multi-scale features and improve the perception ability of images at different scales. F2MCNN is evaluated on four datasets and it achieves better mean absolute error and mean squared error performances compared with MCNN.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceeding - 2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4420-4425
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665426473
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Oct 202124 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameProceeding - 2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021

Conference

Conference2021 China Automation Congress, CAC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/10/2124/10/21

Keywords

  • Crowd counting
  • Crowd density estimation
  • Feature fusion
  • Multi-column convolutional neural network

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