Detection of High-Density Crowds in Aerial Images Using Texture Classification

Author： Meynberg Oliver Cui Shiyong Reinartz Peter

Publisher： MDPI

E-ISSN： 2072-4292|8|6|470-470

ISSN： 2072-4292

Source： Remote Sensing, Vol.8, Iss.6, 2016-06, pp. : 470-470

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Abstract

Automatic crowd detection in aerial images is certainly a useful source of information to prevent crowd disasters in large complex scenarios of mass events. A number of publications employ regression-based methods for crowd counting and crowd density estimation. However, these methods work only when a correct manual count is available to serve as a reference. Therefore, it is the objective of this paper to detect high-density crowds in aerial images, where counting– or regression–based approaches would fail. We compare two texture–classification methodologies on a dataset of aerial image patches which are grouped into ranges of different crowd density. These methodologies are: (1) a Bag–of–words (BoW) model with two alternative local features encoded as Improved Fisher Vectors and (2) features based on a Gabor filter bank. Our results show that a classifier using either BoW or Gabor features can detect crowded image regions with 97% classification accuracy. In our tests of four classes of different crowd-density ranges, BoW–based features have a 5%–12% better accuracy than Gabor.