The invention discloses a
crowd density estimation method based on a cascaded multilevel
convolution neural network. The method includes the steps that (1) the multilevel
convolution neural network is adopted to extract characteristics from lower
layers to high
layers, and lower layer characteristics and high layer characteristics are combined to form multistage characteristics, so that separability of
crowd density characteristics is enhanced; (2) according to similarity of a characteristic pattern in a downsampling layer of the multilevel
convolution neural network, connections of redundant neurons in the convolution neural network are eliminated, and the characteristic extraction speed is increased; (3) two multilevel convolution neural networks of different structures are trained according to the difficulty level of the separability of
crowd density samples, the two multilevel convolution neural networks are in
cascade connection according to sequences from simpleness to complexity to form a crowd density
estimation model of the cascaded multilevel convolution neural network, and crowd density level
estimation is rapidly carried out on to-be-detected images obtained from a video terminal in real time. In the aspect of detection accuracy, a better real-
time effect is achieved compared with previous schemes.