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We address the novel problem of detecting dynamic regions in CrowdCam images, a set of still images captured by a group of people. These regions capture the most interesting parts of the scene, and detecting them plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Adi Dafni , Yael Moses , Shai Avidan

This paper addresses the problem of multi-view people occupancy map estimation. Existing solutions for this problem either operate per-view, or rely on a background subtraction pre-processing. Both approaches lessen the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Tatjana Chavdarova , François Fleuret

In this paper, we explore a strong baseline for crowd counting and an unsupervised people localization algorithm based on estimated density maps. Firstly, existing methods achieve state-of-the-art performance based on different backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Liangzi Rong , Chunping Li

Recently, crowd counting is a hot topic in crowd analysis. Many CNN-based counting algorithms attain good performance. However, these methods only focus on the local appearance features of crowd scenes but ignore the large-range pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Junyu Gao , Qi Wang , Yuan Yuan

In this paper, we propose a novel self-training approach named Crowd-SDNet that enables a typical object detector trained only with point-level annotations (i.e., objects are labeled with points) to estimate both the center points and sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yi Wang , Junhui Hou , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

Existing multi-view crowd counting and localization methods are evaluated under relatively small scenes with limited crowd numbers, camera views, and frames. This makes the evaluation and comparison of existing methods impractical, as small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Qi Zhang , Daijie Chen , Yunfei Gong , Hui Huang

The motivation of this paper originates from rethinking an essential characteristic of crowd counting: individuals (heads of humans) in the crowd counting task typically occupy a very small portion of the image. This characteristic has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianhang Pan , Xiuyi Jia

Accurate crowd detection (CD) is critical for public safety and historical pattern analysis, yet existing methods relying on ground and aerial imagery suffer from limited spatio-temporal coverage. The development of very-fine-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Tong Xiao , Qunming Wang , Ping Lu , Tenghai Huang , Xiaohua Tong , Peter M. Atkinson

This work considers supervised learning to count from images and their corresponding point annotations. Where density-based counting methods typically use the point annotations only to create Gaussian-density maps, which act as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zenglin Shi , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

In this paper, we focus on the crowd localization task, a crucial topic of crowd analysis. Most regression-based methods utilize convolution neural networks (CNN) to regress a density map, which can not accurately locate the instance in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dingkang Liang , Wei Xu , Yingying Zhu , Yu Zhou

Crowd counting is a challenging problem especially in the presence of huge crowd diversity across images and complex cluttered crowd-like background regions, where most previous approaches do not generalize well and consequently produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Usman Sajid , Guanghui Wang

Crowd scenes captured by cameras at different locations vary greatly, and existing crowd models have limited generalization for unseen surveillance scenes. To improve the generalization of the model, we regard different surveillance scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiwei Chen , Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Jing Zhang , Dingyi Li , Jing-Jia Luo

Crowd counting is usually handled in a density map regression fashion, which is supervised via a L2 loss between the predicted density map and ground truth. To effectively regulate models, various improved L2 loss functions have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ziheng Yan , Yuankai Qi , Guorong Li , Xinyan Liu , Weigang Zhang , Qingming Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Crowd counting is an important problem in computer vision due to its wide range of applications in image understanding. Currently, this problem is typically addressed using deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhen Wang , Yuelei Li , Jia Wan , Nuno Vasconcelos

Because of the powerful learning capability of deep neural networks, counting performance via density map estimation has improved significantly during the past several years. However, it is still very challenging due to severe occlusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Di Kang , Antoni Chan

Crowd counting is an important task in computer vision, which has many applications in video surveillance. Although the regression-based framework has achieved great improvements for crowd counting, how to improve the discriminative power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Biyun Sheng , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Jun Li , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

Crowd-sourcing is an increasingly popular tool for image analysis in animal ecology. Computer vision methods that can utilize crowd-sourced annotations can help scale up analysis further. In this work we study the potential to do so on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Justin Kay , Catherine M. Foley , Tom Hart

Crowd counting aims to predict the number of people and generate the density map in the image. There are many challenges, including varying head scales, the diversity of crowd distribution across images and cluttered backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xin Wang , Yang Zhao , Tangwen Yang , Qiuqi Ruan

Current crowd-counting models often rely on single-modal inputs, such as visual images or wireless signal data, which can result in significant information loss and suboptimal recognition performance. To address these shortcomings, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhe Cui , Yuli Li , Le-Nam Tran

People counting is one of the hottest issues in sensing applications. The impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) radar has been extensively applied to count people, providing a device-free solution without illumination and privacy concerns.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Xiuzhu Yang , Wenfeng Yin , Lei Li , Lin Zhang