Title
Looking ahead: Joint small group detection and tracking in crowd scenes
Abstract
Small group detection and tracking in crowd scenes are basis for high level crowd analysis tasks. However, it suffers from the ambiguities in generating proper groups and in handling dynamic changes of group configurations. In this paper, we propose a novel delay decision-making based method for addressing the above problems, motivated by the idea that these ambiguities can be solved using rich temporal context. Specifically, given individual detections, small group hypotheses are generated. Then candidate group hypotheses across consecutive frames and their potential associations are built in a tree. By seeking for the best non-conflicting subset from the hypothesis tree, small groups are determined and simultaneously their trajectories are got. So this framework is called joint detection and tracking. This joint framework reduces the ambiguities in small group decision and tracking by looking ahead for several frames. However, it results in the unmanageable solution space because the number of track hypotheses grows exponentially over time. To solve this problem, effective pruning strategies are developed, which can keep the solution space manageable and also improve the credibility of small groups. Experiments on public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. The method achieves the state-of-the-art performance even in noisy crowd scenes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jvcir.2020.102876
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
41A05,41A10,65D05,65D17
Journal
72
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1047-3203
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiulin Ma101.69
Qi Zou24313.59
Nan Wang39327.47
Qingji Guan472.46
Yanting Pei532.07