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A people-counting system using hybrid RBF neural network is described. The proposed system is effective and flexible for the purpose of performing on-line people counting. Compared with other conventional approach, this system introduces a novel method for feature extraction. In this Letter, a new type of hybrid RBF network is developed to enhance the classification performance. The hybrid RBF based people-counting system is thoroughly compared with other approaches. Extensive and promising results were obtained and the analysis indicates that the proposed hybrid RBF based system provides excellent people-counting results in an open passage. A supervised clustering method is proposed for initialising the hybrid RBF network. In order to substantiate the introduction of the hybrid RBF and the proposed supervised clustering algorithm, test results on a vowel recognition benchmark dataset are also included in the Letter.
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Huang, D., Chow, T.W.S. A People-Counting System Using a Hybrid RBF Neural Network. Neural Processing Letters 18, 97–113 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026226617974
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