Spatial People Density Estimation from Multiple Viewpoints by Memory Based Regression

Abstract

Crowd analysis using cameras has attracted much attention for public safety and marketing. Among techniques of the crowd analysis, we focus on spatial people density estimation which estimates the number of people for each small area in a floor region. However, spatial people density cannot be estimated accurately for an area far from the camera because of the occlusion by people in a closer area. Therefore, we propose a method using a memory based regression method with images captured from cameras from multiple viewpoints. This method is realized by looking up a table that consists of correspondences between people density maps and crowd appearances. Since the crowd appearances include situations where various occlusions occur, an estimation robust to occlusion should be realized. In an experiment, we examined the effectiveness of the proposed method.