Crowd Counting Method Based on Multi-Scale Enhanced Network

The performance of the crowd counting methods is degraded due to the commonly used Euclidean loss ignoring the local correlation of images and the limited ability of the model to cope with multi-scale information. A crowd counting method based on Multi-Scale Enhanced Network(MSEN) is proposed to address the above problems. Firstly, an embedded GAN module with a multi- branch generator and a regional discriminator is designed to initially generate crowd density maps and optimize their local correlation. Then, a well-designed scale enhancement module is connected after the embedded GAN module to extract further local features of different scales from different regions, which will strengthen the generalization ability of the model. Extensive experimental results on three challenging public datasets demonstrate that the performance of the proposed method can effectively improve the accuracy and robustness of the prediction.