Crowd analysis and its applications

Abstract

Crowd is a unique group of individual or something involves community or society. The phenomena of the crowd are very familiar in a variety of research discipline such as sociology, civil and physic. Nowadays, it becomes the most active-oriented research and trendy topic in computer vision. Traditionally, three processing steps involve in crowd analysis, and these include pre-processing, object detection and event/behavior recognition. Meanwhile, the common process for analysis in video sequence of crowd information extraction consists of Pre-Processing, Object Tracking, and Event/Behavior Recognition. In terms of behavior detection, the crowd density estimation, crowd motion detection, crowd tracking and crowd behavior recognition are adopted. In this paper, we give the general framework and taxonomy of pattern in detecting abnormal behavior in a crowd scene. This study presents the state of art of crowd analysis, taxonomy of the common approach of the crowd analysis and it can be useful to researchers and would serve as a good introduction related to the field undertaken. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.