Crowd Detection with a Multiview Sampler
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Abstract
We present a Bayesian approach for simultaneously estimating the number of people in a crowd and their spatial locations by sampling from a posterior distribution over crowd configurations. Although this framework can be naturally extended from single to multiview detection, we show that the naive extension leads to an inefficient sampler that is easily trapped in local modes. We therefore develop a set of novel proposals that leverage multiview geometry to propose global moves that jump more efficiently between modes of the posterior distribution. We also develop a statistical model of crowd configurations that can handle dependencies among people and do not require discretization of the spatial locations. We quantitatively evaluate our algorithm on a publicly available benchmark dataset with different crowd densities and environmental conditions, and show that our approach outperforms other state-of-the-art methods for detecting and counting people in crowds.
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Results
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video illustration of crowd detection for the PETS S2L1 sequence [Download 5.6M] |
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video illustration of crowd counting for the PETS S1L1 sequence [[Download 16.8M]
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