Multi-Source Multi-Scale Counting in Extremely Dense Crowd Images(CVPR2013)——论文笔记

这篇论文和之前看过的论文不一样。本文是基于传统的机器学习、统计学和频域分析等方法，而之前看的论文都是基于深度学习且都是卷积神经网络。主要是由于这篇论文是2013年的。

1 Abstract

1. Our approach relies on multiple sources such as low confidence head detections, repetition of texture elements (using SIFT), and frequency-domain analysis to estimate counts, along with confidence associated with observing individuals, in an image region.
2. We employ a global consistency constraint on counts using Markov Random Field.

我们与之前的方法不同，我们会在一个新的数据集上训练我们的方法。这个新的数据集包含50张图片6万4千个人，一张图片的人数是94到4543这个范围，而之前那些方法用的图片只有十几个人。

3. Framework

3.1. Counting in Patches

我们通过三种不同且互补的源（sources）来计算人数。The three sources are later combined to obtain a single estimate of count for that patch using the individual counts and confidences.

3.1.1 HOG based Head Detections

For each patch, we use number of detections, ηH, mean and variance of scale µH,s, σH,s and confidence µH,c, σH,