Anchor-based group detection in crowd scenes

Mulin Chen, Qi Wang, Xuelong Li

Abstract: Group detection aims to classify pedestrians into categories according to their motion dynamics. It's fundamental for analyzing crowd behaviors and involves a wide range of applications. In this paper, we propose a Anchor-based Manifold Ranking (AMR) method to detect groups in crowd scenes. Our main contributions are threefold: (1) the topological relationship of individuals are effectively investigated with a manifold ranking method; (2) global consistency in crowds are accurately recognized by a coherent merging strategy; (3) the number of groups is decided automatically based on the similarity graph of individuals. Experimental results show that the proposed framework is competitive against the state-of-the-art methods.