Fully Optimized Convolutional Neural Network Based on Small-Scale Crowd

Crowd counting is of considerable significance to society in terms of public safety and urban development. Manual counting of people in a video or photo is often time-consuming and labour-intensive. People will need an efficient and economy way instead of counting manually. Nowadays, the convolutional neural network was popularly utilized as the baseline for crowd counting. However, the more complex the CNN-based algorithm, the more computing resources will be consumed. This article aims to present a simpler and faster fully optimized convolutional neural network for crowd counting with desired performance. To minimize the computational cost on training networks, we proposed a fully optimized method to build our network. Extensive experiments on our fully optimized convolutional neural network indicate the superiority of our network that has very high accuracy and speed on small scale crowd.