An Automated System for Detecting Congestion in Huge Gatherings
Sunil Kumar Aithal S, S R Reeja · 2014
Recently, a huge number of people travel together and may meet in a particular location for a specific purpose such activity is termed as mass gatherings. Rally of politics, gathering at fairs, religious occasions, gathering at railways are the events of mass gatherings. Such gatherings pose severe threats for crowds, because huge number of people moving in small areas can promote the spread of dangerous diseases and enhance the threat of injury which eventually results in crowd stampedes. Crowd can rely on factors, such as individual’s emotion, elderliness, and consumption of liquor, which influence the severity of harm. Such factors can make crowds to be more violent. Thus in such places several issues should be addressed well for avoiding unexpected situations. Nowadays, many researchers are showing lots of interest in