基于多尺度感知的密集人群计数网络

李恒超; 刘香莲; 刘鹏; 冯斌

doi:10.3969/j.issn.0258-2724.20220823

基于多尺度感知的密集人群计数网络

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0258-2724.20220823

李恒超^{1, 2,},
刘香莲¹,
刘鹏¹,
冯斌^3, ,

1.
西南交通大学信息科学与技术学院，四川成都 611756
2.
西南交通大学综合交通大数据应用技术国家工程实验室，四川成都 611756
3.
西南交通大学体育学院，四川成都 611756

基金项目: 国家自然科学基金项目（62271418）；四川省自然科学基金项目（23NSFSC0058）

详细信息

作者简介:
李恒超（1978—），男，教授，博士，研究方向为智能遥感图像处理，E-mail：hcli@home.swjtu.edu.cn

通讯作者:
冯斌（1979—），男，讲师，硕士，研究方向为体育场景人群计数，E-mail：feng197947@163.com

中图分类号: TP391.41
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出版历程
- 收稿日期: 2022-11-29
- 修回日期: 2023-03-08
- 网络出版日期: 2024-07-04
- 刊出日期: 2023-03-17

Dense Crowd Counting Network Based on Multi-scale Perception

LI Hengchao^{1, 2
,},
LIU Xianglian¹,
LIU Peng¹,
FENG Bin^{3
, ,}

1.
School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
2.
National Engineering Laboratory of Integrated Transportation Big Data Application Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
3.
School of Sports, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China

摘要

摘要:
针对密集人群场景存在的目标尺度多样、人群大尺度变化等问题，提出一种基于多尺度感知的密集人群计数网络. 首先，考虑到小尺度目标在图像中占比较大，以VGG-16 （visual geometry group 2016）网络为基础，引入空洞卷积模块，以挖掘图像细节信息；其次，为充分利用目标多尺度信息，构建新的上下文感知模块，以提取不同尺度之间的对比特征；最后，考虑到目标尺度连续变化的特点，设计多尺度特征聚合模块，提高密集尺度采样范围与多尺度信息交互，从而提升网络性能. 实验结果显示：在ShangHai Tech （Part_A/Part_B）和UCF_CC_50数据集上，本文方法的平均绝对误差（mean absolute error，MAE）分别为62.5、6.9、156.5，均方根误差（root mean square error，RMSE）分别为95.7、11.0、223.3；相较于最优对比方法，在UCF_QNRF数据集上的MAE和RMSE分别降低1.1%和4.3%，在NWPU数据集上分别降低8.7%和13.9%.
- 人群密度估计 /
- 多尺度聚合 /
- 空洞卷积 /
- 密度图
Abstract:
A dense crowd counting network based on multi-scale perception was proposed to solve the problems of diverse target scales and large-scale changes of crowds in dense crowd scenes. Firstly, since the small-scale targets account for a relatively large proportion of the images, a dilated convolution module was introduced based on the visual geometry group 2016 (VGG-16) network to mine the detailed information in the images. Then, by utilizing the multi-scale information of the target, a novel context-aware module was designed to extract the contrast features between different scales. Finally, In view of the continuous change of target scales, the multi-scale feature aggregation module was designed to improve the sampling range of dense scales, enhance the interaction of multi-scale information, and thus improve the model performance. The experimental results show that mean absolute errors (MAEs) of the proposed method are 62.5, 6.9, and 156.5, and the root mean square errors (RMSEs) are 95.7, 11.0, and 223.3 on ShangHai Tech (Part_A/Part_B) and UCF_CC_50 datasets, respectively. Compared with the optimal method of comparison model, the MAE and RMSE are reduced by 1.1% and 4.3% on the UCF_QNRF dataset and by 8.7% and 13.9% on the NWPU dataset.
- crowd density estimation /
- multi-scale aggregation /
- dilated convolution /
- density map

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图 1 基于多尺度感知的密集人群计数网络结构

Figure 1. Structure of dense crowd counting network based on multi-scale perception

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图 2 特征增强块结构

Figure 2. Structure of feature enhancement block

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图 3 部分可视化结果

Figure 3. Partial visualization results

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表 1 不同方法在Shanghai Tech、UCF_CC_50、UCF_QNRF、NWPU数据集上的对比结果

Table 1. Comparison results of different methods on Shanghai Tech, UCF_CC_50, UCF_QNRF, and NWPU datasets

模型	Shanghai Tech Part_A		Shanghai Tech Part_B		UCF_ CC_50		UCF_ QNRF		NWPU
模型	MAE	RMSE	MAE	RMSE	MAE	RMSE	MAE	RMSE	MAE	RMSE
MCNN^[7]	110.2	173.2	26.4	41.3	377.6	509.1	277.0	426.0	218.5	700.6
CSRNet^[10]	68.2	115.0	10.6	16.0	266.1	397.5	120.3	208.5	104.8	433.4
PDD-CNN^[29]	64.7	99.1	8.8	14.3	205.4	311.7	115.3	190.2
TEDNet^[18]	64.2	109.1	8.2	12.8	249.4	354.5	113.0	188.0
KDMG^[30]	63.8	99.2	7.8	12.7			99.5	173.0	100.5	415.5
BL^[31]	62.8	101.8	7.7	12.7	229.3	308.2	88.7	154.8	93.6	470.3
CAN^[20]	62.3	100.0	7.8	12.2	212.2	243.7	107.0	183.0	93.5	489.9
MCANet^[32]	60.1	100.2	6.8	11.0	181.3	258.6	100.8	185.9
SC2Net^[33]	58.9	97.7	6.9	11.4	209.4	286.3	98.5	174.5	89.7	348.9
MSPNet	62.5	95.7	6.9	11.0	156.5	223.3	87.7	148.2	81.9	300.3

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表 2 CAM结构的消融实验结果

Table 2. Ablation experiments of CAM structure

方法	MAE	RMSE
本文+PPM	63.6	105.4
本文+CAM	62.5	95.7

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表 3 模块结构的消融实验结果

Table 3. Ablation experiments of different module structures

方法	MAE	RMSE
CAM	68.2	118.8
DCM	66.2	113.0
DCM+CAM	64.9	109.8
CAM+MSAM	65.5	111.4
DCM+MSAM	64.0	111.5
DCM+CAM+MSAM	62.5	95.7

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表 4 FEB层选择消融实验结果

Table 4. Ablation experiments of number selection for FEB

FEB 层数/层	MAE	RMSE
0	64.9	109.8
2	63.5	103.4
4	62.5	95.7
6	67.1	115.8

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