Vision-based crowd congestion management in transportation hubs

Abstract

Congestion in transport hubs has been a big issue in many population booming cities as the current transport systems are not able to accommodate the increasing surge in travel demand caused by ongoing urbanisation and growth of the world population. The ubiquitous Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in transport hubs provide a means for automatic crowd surveillance by utilising accurate and robust image-based crowd analysis models. However, this is an active field of research due to the challenges of occlusion among a large number of individuals and environmental changes, such as lighting fluctuations and changes in context over time. The research presented in this thesis aims to unde..