TraCount: a deep convolutional neural network for highly overlapping vehicle counting

We propose a novel deep framework, TraCount, for highly overlapping vehicle counting in congested traffic scenes. TraCount uses multiple fully convolutional(FC) sub-networks to predict the density map for a given static image of a traffic scene. The different FC sub-networks provide a range in size of receptive fields that enable us to count vehicles whose perspective effect varies significantly in a scene due to the large visual field of surveillance cameras. The predictions of different FC sub-networks are fused by weighted averaging to obtain a final density map. We show that TraCount outperforms the state of the art methods on the challenging TRANCOS dataset that has a total of 46796 vehicles annotated across 1244 images.