Title
Crowd Counting via Multi-layer Regression
Abstract
Crowd counting aims to estimate the number of persons in a crowd image--a challenge until this day--as congestion degree varies, people's appearances may seem different. To address this problem, we propose a novel crowd counting method named Multi-layer Regression Network (MRNet), which consists of a multi-layer recognition branch and several density regressors. In practice, the recognition branch recognizes the congestion degree of the regions in a crowd image, then disintegrates the image into background and several crowd regions layer by layer, each regions are assigned different congestion degrees. In each layer, the recognized crowd regions with the specific congestion degree are delivered to a regressor with the corresponding density prior for crowd density estimation. The generated density maps at all layers are integrated to obtain the final density map for crowd density estimation. To date, MRNet is the first method to estimate crowd densities on crowd regions with different regressors. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of MRNet on four typical datasets in comparison with nine state-of-the-art methods. By using multi-layer regression, MRNet achieves significant improvement in crowd counting accuracy, and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3343031.3350914
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
congestion degree, crowd counting, density regressor, multi-layer regression, recognition branch
Computer vision,Multi layer,Regression,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Crowd density,Artificial intelligence,Crowd counting
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6889-6
4
0.41
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Tan140.41
Chun Tao240.41
Tongwei Ren332830.22
Jinhui Tang45180212.18
Gangshan Wu527536.63