TY - GEN
T1 - Counting people in groups
AU - Fehr, Duc
AU - Sivalingam, Ravishankar
AU - Morellas, Vassilios
AU - Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos
AU - Lotfallah, Osama
AU - Park, Youngchoon
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Cameras are becoming a common tool for automated vision purposes due to their low cost. In an era of growing security concerns, camera surveillance systems have become not only important but also necessary. Algorithms for several tasks such as detecting abandoned objects and tracking people have already been successfully developed. While tracking people is relatively easy, counting people in groups is much more challenging. The mutual occlusions between people in a group make it difficult to provide an exact count. The aim of this work is to present a method of estimating the number of people in group scenarios. Several considerations for counting people are illustrated in this paper, and experimental results of the method are described and discussed.
AB - Cameras are becoming a common tool for automated vision purposes due to their low cost. In an era of growing security concerns, camera surveillance systems have become not only important but also necessary. Algorithms for several tasks such as detecting abandoned objects and tracking people have already been successfully developed. While tracking people is relatively easy, counting people in groups is much more challenging. The mutual occlusions between people in a group make it difficult to provide an exact count. The aim of this work is to present a method of estimating the number of people in group scenarios. Several considerations for counting people are illustrated in this paper, and experimental results of the method are described and discussed.
KW - Background subtraction
KW - Crowd counting
KW - People counting
KW - Pixel layering
KW - Shadow removal
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U2 - 10.1109/AVSS.2009.55
DO - 10.1109/AVSS.2009.55
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72349095834
SN - 9780769537184
T3 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009
SP - 152
EP - 157
BT - 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009
T2 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009
Y2 - 2 September 2009 through 4 September 2009
ER -