Crowd analysis: A survey

Monekosso, Dorothy N.; Velastin, Sergio A.; Zhan, Beibei; Remagnino, Paolo; Xu, Li Qun

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.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2008
• Journal: Machine Vision and Applications
• Print ISSN: 0932-8092
• Electronic ISSN: 1432-1769
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 5-6
• Pages: 345-357
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-008-0132-4
• Keywords: crowd studies, crowd dynamics, socio-dynamics, crowd simulations, computer vision
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1022843
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00138-008-0132-4