Due to the rapid increase in urbanization and population,crowd gatherings are frequently observed in the form of concerts,political,and religious meetings.HAJJ is one of the well-known crowding events that takes place...Due to the rapid increase in urbanization and population,crowd gatherings are frequently observed in the form of concerts,political,and religious meetings.HAJJ is one of the well-known crowding events that takes place every year in Makkah,Saudi Arabia.Crowd density estimation and crowd monitoring are significant research areas in Artificial Intelligence(AI)applications.The current research study develops a new Sparrow Search Optimization with Deep Transfer Learning based Crowd Density Detection and Classification(SSODTL-CD2C)model.The presented SSODTL-CD2C technique majorly focuses on the identification and classification of crowd densities.To attain this,SSODTL-CD2C technique exploits Oppositional Salp Swarm Optimization Algorithm(OSSA)with EfficientNet model to derive the feature vectors.At the same time,Stacked Sparse Auto Encoder(SSAE)model is utilized for the classification of crowd densities.Finally,SSO algorithm is employed for optimal fine-tuning of the parameters involved in SSAE mechanism.The performance of the proposed SSODTL-CD2C technique was validated using a dataset with four different kinds of crowd densities.The obtained results demonstrated that the proposed SSODTLCD2C methodology accomplished an excellent crowd classification performance with a maximum accuracy of 93.25%.So,the proposed method will be highly helpful in managing HAJJ and other crowded events.展开更多
基金This research work was funded by Institutional Fund Projects under grant no.(IFPHI-097-120-2020).
文摘Due to the rapid increase in urbanization and population,crowd gatherings are frequently observed in the form of concerts,political,and religious meetings.HAJJ is one of the well-known crowding events that takes place every year in Makkah,Saudi Arabia.Crowd density estimation and crowd monitoring are significant research areas in Artificial Intelligence(AI)applications.The current research study develops a new Sparrow Search Optimization with Deep Transfer Learning based Crowd Density Detection and Classification(SSODTL-CD2C)model.The presented SSODTL-CD2C technique majorly focuses on the identification and classification of crowd densities.To attain this,SSODTL-CD2C technique exploits Oppositional Salp Swarm Optimization Algorithm(OSSA)with EfficientNet model to derive the feature vectors.At the same time,Stacked Sparse Auto Encoder(SSAE)model is utilized for the classification of crowd densities.Finally,SSO algorithm is employed for optimal fine-tuning of the parameters involved in SSAE mechanism.The performance of the proposed SSODTL-CD2C technique was validated using a dataset with four different kinds of crowd densities.The obtained results demonstrated that the proposed SSODTLCD2C methodology accomplished an excellent crowd classification performance with a maximum accuracy of 93.25%.So,the proposed method will be highly helpful in managing HAJJ and other crowded events.