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Crowd monitoring in mass events is a highly important technology to support the security of attending persons. Proposed methods based on terrestrial or airborne image/video data often fail in achieving sufficiently accurate results to guarantee a robust service. We present a novel framework for estimating human density and motion from video data based on custom tailored object detection techniques, a regression based density estimate and a total variation based optical flow extraction. From the gathered features we present a detailed accuracy analysis versus ground truth information. In addition, all information is projected into world coordinates to enable a direct integration with existing geo-information systems. The resulting human counts demonstrate a mean error of 4% to 9% and thus represent a most efficient measure that can be robustly applied in security critical services.
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Perko, R., Schnabel, T., Fritz, G., Almer, A., Paletta, L. (2013). Airborne Based High Performance Crowd Monitoring for Security Applications. In: Kämäräinen, JK., Koskela, M. (eds) Image Analysis. SCIA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7944. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38886-6_62
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