Counting things in computer images is an important computer vision task. Counting cars can indicate how full a parking lot is or how congested a freeway is.

In this Kaggle you must count the number of people both on the street and on the beach for a section of Route-A1A in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. You are provided with images similar to this one, that contain a number of people.  Some images may contain no people and images will not generally contain more than 40 people.

![Dark Scene](https://data.heatonresearch.com/kaggle/images/beach_254.jpg)

Images will be at varying brightness levels.

![Dark Scene](https://data.heatonresearch.com/kaggle/images/beach_238.jpg)

Some images will have considerably more people.

![Dark Scene](https://data.heatonresearch.com/kaggle/images/beach_239.jpg)