1. School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China 2. School of Software, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China 3. Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Smart City, Nanchang 330047, China
Crowd counting is recently becoming a hot research topic, which aims to count the number of the people in different crowded scenes. Existing methods are mainly based on training-testing pattern and rely on large data training, which fails to accurately count the crowd in real-world scenes because of the limitation of model’s generalization capability. To alleviate this issue, a scene-adaptive crowd counting method based on meta-learning with Dual-illumination Merging Network (DMNet) is proposed in this paper. The proposed method based on learning-to-learn and few-shot learning is able to adapt different scenes which only contain a few labeled images. To generate high quality density map and count the crowd in low-lighting scene, the DMNet is proposed, which contains Multi-scale Feature Extraction module and Element-wise Fusion Module. The Multi-scale Feature Extraction module is used to extract the image feature by multi-scale convolutions, which helps to improve network accuracy. The Element-wise Fusion module fuses the low-lighting feature and illumination-enhanced feature, which supplements the missing illumination in low-lighting environments. Experimental results on benchmarks, WorldExpo’10, DISCO, USCD, and Mall, show that the proposed method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and gets satisfied results.
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