SoftwareMill blog: Counting Objects with Faster R-CNN

Accurately counting objects instances in a given image or video frame is a hard problem to solve in machine learning. A number of solutions have been developed to count people, cars and other objects and none of them is perfect. Of course, we are talking about image processing here, so a neural network seems to be a good tool for the job. Below you can find a description of different approaches, common problems, challenges and latest solutions in the Neural Networks object counting field. As a proof of concept, existing model for Faster R-CNN network will be used to count objects on the street with video examples given at the end of the post.