This is an unofficial implementation of CVPR 2016 paper "Single Image Crowd Counting via Multi Column Convolutional Neural Network"
git clone https://github.com/svishwa/crowdcount-mcnn.git
We'll call the directory that you cloned crowdcount-mcnn ROOT
Download ShanghaiTech Dataset from
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fipgjqxl7uj8hd5/ShanghaiTech.zip?dl=0
Baidu Disk: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1nuAYslz
mkdir ROOT/data/original/shanghaitech/
cd ROOT/data_preparation/
run create_gt_test_set_shtech.m in matlab to create ground truth files for test data
cd ROOT/data_preparation/
run create_training_set_shtech.m in matlab to create training and validataion set along with ground truth files
Follow steps 1,2,3,4 and 5 from Data Setup
Download pre-trained model files:
Save the model files under ROOT/final_models
Run test.py
a. Set save_output = True to save output density maps
b. Errors are saved in output directory
With the aid of Crayon, we can access the visualisation power of TensorBoard for any deep learning framework.
To use the TensorBoard, install Crayon (https://github.com/torrvision/crayon)
and set use_tensorboard = True
in ROOT/train.py
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During training, the best model is chosen using error on the validation set. (It is not clear how the authors in the original implementation choose the best model).
10% of the training set is set asised for validation. The validation set is chosen randomly.
The ground truth density maps are obtained using simple gaussian maps unlike the original method described in the paper.
Following are the results on Shanghai Tech A and B dataset:
| | MAE | MSE |
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| A | 110 | 169 |
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| B | 25 | 44 |
Also, please take a look at our new work on crowd counting using cascaded cnn and high-level prior (https://github.com/svishwa/crowdcount-cascaded-mtl), which has improved results as compared to this work.