Crowd analysis in video surveillance: A review

A Tomar, S Kumar, B Pant - 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowd behavior investigation in images/videos is an important task applied in areas such as
people counting, density estimation, emotion recognition, motion detection, and flow …

Progress of IoT research technologies and applications serving Hajj and Umrah

MK Shambour, A Gutub - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The term IoT technology is associated with many fields, including scientific, commercial,
industrial, health, transportation and other fields, which became a necessity of daily life …

[HTML][HTML] SIMCD: SIMulated crowd data for anomaly detection and prediction

A Bamaqa, M Sedky, T Bosakowski, BB Bastaki… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Smart Crowd management (SCM) solutions can mitigate overcrowding disasters by
implementing efficient crowd learning models that can anticipate critical crowd conditions …

Abnormal activity recognition from surveillance videos using convolutional neural network

S Habib, A Hussain, W Albattah, M Islam, S Khan… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background and motivation: Every year, millions of Muslims worldwide come to Mecca to
perform the Hajj. In order to maintain the security of the pilgrims, the Saudi government has …

Digitalization and Smartification of Urban Services to Enhance Urban Resilience in the Post-Pandemic Era: The Case of the Pilgrimage City of Makkah

YA Aina, IR Abubakar, AI Almulhim, UL Dano… - Smart Cities, 2023 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted human socioeconomic activities,
leaving an everlasting impact on urban systems. As a result, there is a growing scholarly …

A deep-fusion network for crowd counting in high-density crowded scenes

SD Khan, Y Salih, B Zafar, A Noorwali - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
People counting has been investigated extensively as a tool to increase the individual's
safety and to avoid crowd hazards at public places. It is a challenging task especially in high …

Solving hajj and umrah challenges using information and communication technology: a survey

AJ Showail - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hajj and Umrah are Muslims' religious pilgrimages to Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Hajj is
considered the largest annual gathering in the world. In Islam, every adult is obligated to …

Saudi Arabia's Management of the Hajj Season through artificial intelligence and sustainability

AAA Abalkhail, SMA Al Amri - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
High-density gatherings have the potential to turn from a peaceful mass into a human
disaster unless they are managed in an organized manner. Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Hajj …

A technology survey on IoT applications serving Umrah and Hajj

M Binsawad, M Albahar - Applied Computational Intelligence …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging technologies provide a highly compatible platform for analyzing substantial data
volumes relating to crowd management. These technologies are not only effective in …

Real-time pilgrims management using wearable physiological sensors, mobile technology and artificial intelligence

AM Al-Shaery, H Aljassmi, SG Ahmed… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Annually, a huge number of pilgrims visit Mecca to perform Al Hajj ritual. Crowd
management is critical in this occasion in order to avoid crowd disasters (eg, stampede and …