Aggregated context network for crowd counting

Si-yue YU; Jian PU

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- Aggregated context network for crowd counting
- 聚合上下文信息的人群计数
- Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering Vol. 21, Issue 11, Pages: 1626-1638(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Author bio：
  
  [ "Si-yue YU, E-mail:51174500148@stu.ecnu.edu.cn" ]
  [ "", "Jian PU received his Ph.D. degree from Fudan University, China, in 2014. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2014 to 2016. He was an associate professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University in China from 2016 to 2019. Currently, he is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, China. He is a corresponding expert of Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering. His current research interests include machine learning, computer vision, autopilot, and medical image analysis" ]
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1631/FITEE.1900481
  CLC： TP391
- Received：08 September 2019，
  
  Revised：2020-;5-18，
  
  Published Online：05 August 2020，
  
  Published：2020-11
- Accepted：
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Si-yue YU, Jian PU. Aggregated context network for crowd counting[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2020, 21(11): 1626-1638.
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Si-yue YU, Jian PU. Aggregated context network for crowd counting[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2020, 21(11): 1626-1638. DOI： 10.1631/FITEE.1900481.

摘要

人群计数被大量应用于视频监控、交通监控、汇编控制以及其它公共安全应用场景。上下文信息相关的透视扭曲和背景干扰是影响人群计数准确性的两个关键因素。区别于只解决其中一种特定因素的传统方法，本文提出一种人群计数网络，其充分聚合上下文信息，达到同时解决两种因素的目的。提出一个多任务的全卷积网络结构，学习人群密度估计和语义分割辅助任务，前者通过提取多尺度和空间上下文信息学习人群密度图，辅助语义分割任务通过学习背景和前景信息，后期将语义分割提取的信息融入人群密度估计任务。结果表明，提出的人群计数网络具有较好的人群计数准确率；与其它方法相比，提出的方法在3个具有挑战性的人群数据集上具有更高鲁棒性。

Abstract

Crowd counting has been applied to a variety of applications such as video surveillance

traffic monitoring

assembly control

and other public safety applications. Context information

such as perspective distortion and background interference

is a crucial factor in achieving high performance for crowd counting. While traditional methods focus merely on solving one specific factor

we aggregate sufficient context information into the crowd counting network to tackle these problems simultaneously in this study. We build a fully convolutional network with two tasks

i.e.

main density map estimation and auxiliary semantic segmentation. The main task is to extract the multi-scale and spatial context information to learn the density map. The auxiliary semantic segmentation task gives a comprehensive view of the background and foreground information

and the extracted information is finally incorporated into the main task by late fusion. We demonstrate that our network has better accuracy of estimation and higher robustness on three challenging datasets compared with state-of-the-art methods.

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