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This study enhances a crowd density estimation algorithm originally designed for image-based analysis by adapting it for video-based scenarios. The proposed method integrates a denoising probabilistic model that utilizes diffusion processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Balachandra Devarangadi Sunil , Rakshith Venkatesh , Shantanu Todmal

In this paper we advance the state-of-the-art for crowd counting in high density scenes by further exploring the idea of a fully convolutional crowd counting model introduced by (Zhang et al., 2016). Producing an accurate and robust crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Mark Marsden , Kevin McGuinness , Suzanne Little , Noel E. O'Connor

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the issues such as scale variation and perspective variation in real crowd scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel Cascaded Residual Density Network (CRDNet) in a coarse-to-fine approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kun Zhao , Luchuan Song , Bin Liu , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Detecting and Counting people in a human crowd from a moving drone present challenging problems that arisefrom the constant changing in the image perspective andcamera angle. In this paper, we test two different state-of-the-art approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Javier Gonzalez-Trejo , Diego Mercado-Ravell

Precise knowledge about the size of a crowd, its density and flow can provide valuable information for safety and security applications, event planning, architectural design and to analyze consumer behavior. Creating a powerful machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Mahdi Maktabdar Oghaz , Anish R Khadka , Vasileios Argyriou , Paolo Remagnino

Most of the crowd abnormal event detection methods rely on complex hand-crafted features to represent the crowd motion and appearance. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown to be a powerful tool with excellent representational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Moin Nabi , Hossein Mousavi , Enver Sangineto , Nicu Sebe

With multiple crowd gatherings of millions of people every year in events ranging from pilgrimages to protests, concerts to marathons, and festivals to funerals; visual crowd analysis is emerging as a new frontier in computer vision. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Haroon Idrees , Muhmmad Tayyab , Kishan Athrey , Dong Zhang , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Nasir Rajpoot , Mubarak Shah

Purpose: The aim of this work is to demonstrate that convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be applied to extremely sparse image libraries by subdivision of the original image datasets. Methods: Image datasets from a conventional digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Johan P. Boetker

Object recognition is a primary function of the human visual system. It has recently been claimed that the highly successful ability to recognise objects in a set of emergent computer vision systems---Deep Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Ben Lonnqvist , Alasdair D. F. Clarke , Ramakrishna Chakravarthi

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in image classification, but still show room for improvement in object-detection tasks with many categories, in particular for cluttered scenes and occlusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Nikolaos Karianakis , Thomas J. Fuchs , Stefano Soatto

Density map estimation enables accurate object counting in heavily occluded, and densely packed scenes where detection-based counting fails. In multi-class density estimation, class awareness can be introduced by modelling classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Villanelle O'Reilly , Jonathan Cox , Georgios Leontidis , Marc Hanheide , Petra Bosilj , James M. Brown

Crowd counting problem aims to count the number of objects within an image or a frame in the videos and is usually solved by estimating the density map generated from the object location annotations. The values in the density map, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shengqin Jiang , Xiaobo Lu , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu

We describe a new class of subsampling techniques for CNNs, termed multisampling, that significantly increases the amount of information kept by feature maps through subsampling layers. One version of our method, which we call checkered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shayan Sadigh , Pradeep Sen

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. While effective, deep learning approaches are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which, in a crowd-counting context, can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Automated counting of people in crowd images is a challenging task. The major difficulty stems from the large diversity in the way people appear in crowds. In fact, features available for crowd discrimination largely depend on the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Deepak Babu Sam , Neeraj N Sajjan , R. Venkatesh Babu

In this paper, we aim at tackling the problem of crowd counting in extremely high-density scenes, which contain hundreds, or even thousands of people. We begin by a comprehensive analysis of the most widely used density map-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Hanhui Li , Xiangjian He , Hefeng Wu , Saeed Amirgholipour Kasmani , Ruomei Wang , Xiaonan Luo , Liang Lin

This paper proposes a crowd counting method. Crowd counting is difficult because of large appearance changes of a target which caused by density and scale changes. Conventional crowd counting methods generally utilize one predictor (e,g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Shohei Kumagai , Kazuhiro Hotta , Takio Kurita

This paper proposes a DNN-based system that detects multiple people from a single depth image. Our neural network processes a depth image and outputs a likelihood map in image coordinates, where each detection corresponds to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 David Fuentes-Jimenez , Cristina Losada-Gutierrez , David Casillas-Perez , Javier Macias-Guarasa , Roberto Martin-Lopez , Daniel Pizarro , Carlos A. Luna

Crowd counting on static images is a challenging problem due to scale variations. Recently deep neural networks have been shown to be effective in this task. However, existing neural-networks-based methods often use the multi-column or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Lingke Zeng , Xiangmin Xu , Bolun Cai , Suo Qiu , Tong Zhang

We seek to improve crowd counting as we perceive limits of currently prevalent density map estimation approach on both prediction accuracy and time efficiency. We leverage multilevel pixelation of density map as it helps improve SNR of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhuojun Chen , Junhao Cheng , Yuchen Yuan , Dongping Liao , Yizhou Li , Jiancheng Lv