Object Counting in Video Surveillance Using Multi-scale Density Map Regression

Yi Wang, Junhui Hou, Lap Pui Chau

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an effective convolutional neural network (CNN) for object counting in video surveillance, namely multi-scale density map regressor (MSDMR). In contrast to existing CNN-based methods that achieve high accuracy by means of empirically increasing the model capacity with more complex structures/layers, we focus on a compact CNN. Specifically, the MSDMR is mainly designed with the supervision of multi-scale outputs, in which two CNN stacks estimate coarse- and fine-scale density maps, respectively. The integral of the fine density map provides the count of objects. The two stacks are connected in a cascaded manner and jointly trained such that the overall model can learn discriminative and complementary features to produce expressive performance. Experimental results show that the proposed MSDMR can achieve higher accuracy compared with state-of-the-art methods on the surveillance datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2422-2426
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479981311
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Brighton, United Kingdom
Duration: 12 May 201917 May 2019

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2019-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBrighton
Period12/05/1917/05/19

Keywords

  • CNN
  • density map
  • multi-scale
  • Object counting
  • video surveillance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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