Scene-adaptive crowd counting method based on meta learning with dual-input network DMNet

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.

An Efficient Multi-area Networks-Merging Model for Power System Online Dynamic Modeling

To improve accuracy and efficiency in power systems dynamic modeling,the distributed online modeling approach is a good option.In this approach,the power system is divided into sub-grids,and the dynamic models of the sub-grids are built independently within the distributed modeling system.The subgrid models are subsequently merged,after which the dynamic model of the whole power system is finally constructed online.The merging of the networks plays an important role in the distributed online dynamic modeling of power systems.An efficient multi-area networks-merging model that can rapidly match the boundary power flow is proposed in this paper.The iterations of the boundary matching during network merging are eliminated due to the introduction of the merging model,and the dynamic models of the sub-grid can be directly“plugged in”with each other.The results of the calculations performed in a real power system demonstrate the accuracy of the integrated model under both steady and transient states.