Crowd analysis: a survey

  • Authors:
  • Beibei Zhan;Dorothy N. Monekosso;Paolo Remagnino;Sergio A. Velastin;Li-Qun Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Kingston University, Digital Imaging Research Centre, Kingston upon Thames, UK;Kingston University, Digital Imaging Research Centre, Kingston upon Thames, UK;Kingston University, Digital Imaging Research Centre, Kingston upon Thames, UK;Kingston University, Digital Imaging Research Centre, Kingston upon Thames, UK;BT Group PLC, Research and Venturing, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • Machine Vision and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the year 1999 the world population reached 6 billion, doubling the previous census estimate of 1960. Recently, the United States Census Bureau issued a revised forecast for world population showing a projected growth to 9.4 billion by 2050 (US Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldpop.html). Different research disci- plines have studied the crowd phenomenon and its dynamics from a social, psychological and computational standpoint respectively. This paper presents a survey on crowd analysis methods employed in computer vision research and discusses perspectives from other research disciplines and how they can contribute to the computer vision approach.