Sana Zahir¹, Rafi Ullah Khan¹, Mohib Ullah¹, Muhammad Ishaq¹, Naqqash Dilshad², Amin Ullah^3,*, Mi Young Lee^4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 2741-2754, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.037706

Abstract The analysis of overcrowded areas is essential for flow monitoring, assembly control, and security. Crowd counting’s primary goal is to calculate the population in a given region, which requires real-time analysis of congested scenes for prompt reactionary actions. The crowd is always unexpected, and the benchmarked available datasets have a lot of variation, which limits the trained models’ performance on unseen test data. In this paper, we proposed an end-to-end deep neural network that takes an input image and generates a density map of a crowd scene. The proposed model consists of encoder and decoder networks comprising batch-free normalization layers… More >

Yuxuan Gu, Meng Wu^*, Qian Wang, Siguang Chen, Lijun Yang

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 493-512, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035974

Abstract In this paper, a deep learning-based method is proposed for crowd-counting problems. Specifically, by utilizing the convolution kernel density map, the ground truth is generated dynamically to enhance the feature-extracting ability of the generator model. Meanwhile, the “cross stage partial” module is integrated into congested scene recognition network (CSRNet) to obtain a lightweight network model. In addition, to compensate for the accuracy drop owing to the lightweight model, we take advantage of “structured knowledge transfer” to train the model in an end-to-end manner. It aims to accelerate the fitting speed and enhance the learning ability of the student model. The… More >

Akbar Khan¹, Kushsairy Abdul Kadir^1,*, Jawad Ali Shah², Waleed Albattah³, Muhammad Saeed⁴, Haidawati Nasir⁵, Megat Norulazmi Megat Mohamed Noor⁵, Muhammad Haris Kaka Khel¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5825-5844, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027077

Abstract With the rapid progress of deep convolutional neural networks, several applications of crowd counting have been proposed and explored in the literature. In congested scene monitoring, a variety of crowd density estimating approaches has been developed. The understanding of highly congested scenes for crowd counting during Muslim gatherings of Hajj and Umrah is a challenging task, as a large number of individuals stand nearby and, it is hard for detection techniques to recognize them, as the crowd can vary from low density to high density. To deal with such highly congested scenes, we have proposed the Congested Scene Crowd Counting… More >

Adel Hafeezallah¹, Ahlam Al-Dhamari^2,3,*, Syed Abd Rahman Abu-Bakar²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 3879-3903, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.028289

Abstract Estimating the crowd count and density of highly dense scenes witnessed in Muslim gatherings at religious sites in Makkah and Madinah is critical for developing control strategies and organizing such a large gathering. Moreover, since the crowd images in this case can range from low density to high density, detection-based approaches are hard to apply for crowd counting. Recently, deep learning-based regression has become the prominent approach for crowd counting problems, where a density-map is estimated, and its integral is further computed to acquire the final count result. In this paper, we put forward a novel multi-scale network (named 2U-Net)… More >

Wei Zhuang^1,2, Yixian Shen¹, Chunming Gao³, Lu Li¹, Haoran Sang⁴, Fei Qian^5,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.41, No.1, pp. 255-269, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.020590

Abstract Since the outbreak of the world-wide novel coronavirus pandemic, crowd counting in public areas, such as in shopping centers and in commercial streets, has gained popularity among public health administrations for preventing the crowds from gathering. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive method for crowd counting based on Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) by using common commercial wireless routers. Compared with previous researches on device-free crowd counting, our proposed method is more adaptive to the change of environment and can achieve high accuracy of crowd count estimation. Because the distance between access point (AP) and monitor point (MP)… More >

Salma Kammoun Jarraya^1,2,*, Maha Hamdan Alotibi^1,3, Manar Salamah Ali¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.2, pp. 1315-1328, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.013522

Abstract With the emergence of the COVID19 virus in late 2019 and the declaration that the virus is a worldwide pandemic, health organizations and governments have begun to implement severe health precautions to reduce the spread of the virus and preserve human lives. The enforcement of social distancing at work environments and public areas is one of these obligatory precautions. Crowd management is one of the effective measures for social distancing. By reducing the social contacts of individuals, the spread of the disease will be immensely reduced. In this paper, a model for crowd counting in public places of high and… More >

Zhenqiu Xiao^1,*, Bin Yang², Desy Tjahjadi³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.3, pp. 1141-1154, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05638

Abstract Crowd counting is a challenging task in crowded scenes due to heavy occlusions, appearance variations and perspective distortions. Current crowd counting methods typically operate on an image patch level with overlaps, then sum over the patches to get the final count. In this paper we describe a real-time pedestrian counting framework based on a two-stage human detection algorithm. Existing works with overhead cameras is mainly based on visual tracking, and their robustness is rather limited. On the other hand, some works, which focus on improving the performances, are too complicated to be realistic. By adopting a line sampling process, a… More >