Counting people in groups

Duc Fehr; Ravishankar Sivalingam; Vassilios Morellas; Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos; Osama Lotfallah; Youngchoon Park

doi:10.1109/AVSS.2009.55

Counting people in groups

Duc Fehr, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Vassilios Morellas, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Osama Lotfallah, Youngchoon Park

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009
Pages	152-157
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/AVSS.2009.55
State	Published - 2009
Event	6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009 - Genova, Italy Duration: Sep 2 2009 → Sep 4 2009

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Name	6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009

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Other	6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genova
Period	9/2/09 → 9/4/09

Keywords

Background subtraction
Crowd counting
People counting
Pixel layering
Shadow removal

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Fehr, D., Sivalingam, R., Morellas, V., Papanikolopoulos, N., Lotfallah, O., & Park, Y. (2009). Counting people in groups. In 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009 (pp. 152-157). Article 5279591 (6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009). https://doi.org/10.1109/AVSS.2009.55

Counting people in groups. / Fehr, Duc; Sivalingam, Ravishankar; Morellas, Vassilios et al.
6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009. 2009. p. 152-157 5279591 (6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009).

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Fehr, D, Sivalingam, R, Morellas, V , Papanikolopoulos, N, Lotfallah, O & Park, Y 2009, Counting people in groups. in 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009., 5279591, 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009, pp. 152-157, 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2009, Genova, Italy, 9/2/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/AVSS.2009.55

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