Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 17, Issue 6, 367(2021)

An improved deep multiscale crowd counting network with perspective awareness

Jingchang ZHUGE*, Ningning DING, Shujian XING, and Xinyu YANG
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  • College of Electronic Information and Automation, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
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    Crowd counting is a challenging task, which is partly due to the multiscale variation and perspective distortion of crowd images. To solve these problems, an improved deep multiscale crowd counting network with perspective awareness was proposed. This network contains two branches. One branch uses the improved ResNet50 network to extract multiscale features, and the other extracts perspective information using a perspective-aware network formed by fully convolutional networks. The proposed network structure improves the counting accuracy when the crowd scale changes, and reduce the influence of perspective distortion. To accommodate various crowd scenarios, data-driven approaches are used to fine-tune the trained convolutional neural networks (CNN) model of the target scenes. The extensive experiments on three public datasets demonstrate the validity and reliability of the proposed method.

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    ZHUGE Jingchang, DING Ningning, XING Shujian, YANG Xinyu. An improved deep multiscale crowd counting network with perspective awareness[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2021, 17(6): 367

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    Paper Information

    Received: Nov. 18, 2020

    Accepted: Feb. 4, 2021

    Published Online: Sep. 2, 2021

    The Author Email: Jingchang ZHUGE (12315414@qq.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-021-0184-5

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