End to end multi-scale convolutional neural network for crowd counting

Deyi Ji, Hongtao Lu, Tongzhen Zhang

Abstract: Crowd counting is a challenging task in computer vison field and haven’t been well addressed until now. In this paper, we intend to develop an end to end multi-scale deep convolutional neural network(CNN) model that can accurately estimate the crowd count from an individual image with arbitrary crowd density and perspective. The proposed model extract multi-scale deep CNN features from the input image and regress the crwod count directly, without any post-processing . Hence our model could handle muti-scale targets well in various crowd scene. We evaluate our model on several benchmark datasets and the performance outperforms some state-of-the-art methods. What’s more, due to the end-to-end characteristics, our model demonstrates good practical application performance.