[hackerspaces] Looking for video recording of protests/crowds for testing crowd-counting algorithms

[Yves Quemener]

On 06/30/2010 02:38 PM, pieter.heremans wrote:
> hey
> maybe it's possible to test your algorithms on video captures from
> sports events i.e. cheering public at soccer game or the start of a
> marathon or something ?  i guess these data will be easier to find and
> a lot less privacy-sensitive.
> i found this one: 'crowd_run' on http://media.xiph.org/video/derf/
>    
That's an excellent idea ! Plus it is possible to find high quality 
video of these. Cheering public is trickier I think because individuals 
are not moving independentlyand are usually facing in a different 
direction than the apparent movement.