A shape derivative based approach for crowd flow segmentation

Si Wu, Zhiwen Yu, Hau-San Wong

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Abstract

Crowd movement analysis has many practical applications, especially for video surveillance. The common methods are based on pedestrian detection and tracking. With an increase of crowd density, however, it is difficult for these methods to analyze crowd movement because of the computation and complexity. In this paper, a novel approach for crowd flow segmentation is proposed. We employ a Weighting Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm (WFCM) to extract the motion region in optical flow field. In order to further analyze crowd movement, we make use of translation flow to approximate local crowd movement, and design a shape derivative based region growing scheme to segment the crowd flows. In the experiments, the proposed method is tested on a set of crowd video sequences from low density to high density. © Springer-Verlag 2010.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ACCV 2009
Subtitle of host publication9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages93-102
Volume5994 LNCS
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)3642123066, 9783642123061
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2009 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 23 Sept 200927 Sept 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5994 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2009
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period23/09/0927/09/09

Research Keywords

  • Crowd flow segmentation
  • Region growing scheme
  • Shape derivative
  • Translation domain

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