With the growing concerns over public safety, the importance of crowd monitoring is being
realized by various security and event management agencies worldwide. Estimation of …

This paper proposes a novel method to address the problem of estimating the number of
people in surveillance scenes with people gathering and waiting. The proposed method …

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 …

The understanding of crowd behaviour in semi-confined spaces is an important part of the
design of new pedestrian facilities, for major layout modifications to existing areas and for …

Automated crowd density estimation and counting are popular and important topic in crowd
analysis. The last decades witnessed different of many significant publications in this field …

Closed circuit television systems (CCTV) are becoming more and more popular and are
being deployed in many offices, housing estates and in most public spaces. Monitoring …

Visual surveillance is an active research topic in image processing. Transit systems are
actively seeking new or improved ways to use technology to deter and respond to accidents …

In the past, the estimation of crowd density has become an important topic in the field of
automatic surveillance systems. In this paper, the developed system goes one step further to …

This paper presents an automatic method to detect abnormal crowd density by using texture
analysis and learning, which is very important for the intelligent surveillance system in public …

The installation of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in urban environments is now
commonplace and well-known. Public attitudes to these systems are in two opposing …