Marked point processes for crowd counting

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Abstract

A Bayesian marked point process (MPP) model is developed to detect and count people in crowded scenes. The model couples a spatial stochastic process governing number and placement of individuals with a conditional mark process for selecting body shape. We automatically learn the mark (shape) process from training video by estimating a mixture of Bernoulli shape prototypes along with an extrinsic shape distribution describing the orientation and scaling of these shapes for any given image location. The reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo framework is used to efficiently search for the maximum a posteriori configuration of shapes, leading to an estimate of the count, location and pose of each person in the scene. Quantitative results of crowd counting are presented for two publiclyavailable datasets with known ground truth.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPR Workshops 2009
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2913-2920
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781424439935
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009 - Miami, FL, United States
Duration: Jun 20 2009Jun 25 2009

Publication series

Name2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMiami, FL
Period6/20/096/25/09

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering

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