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While the performance of crowd counting via deep learning has been improved dramatically in the recent years, it remains an ingrained problem due to cluttered backgrounds and varying scales of people within an image. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yunqi Miao , Zijia Lin , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han

Research in neural networks in the field of computer vision has achieved remarkable accuracy for point estimation. However, the uncertainty in the estimation is rarely addressed. Uncertainty quantification accompanied by point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Min-hwan Oh , Peder A. Olsen , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy

In recent years, significant progress has been made on the research of crowd counting. However, as the challenging scale variations and complex scenes existed in crowds, neither traditional convolution networks nor recent Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xing Wei , Yuanrui Kang , Jihao Yang , Yunfeng Qiu , Dahu Shi , Wenming Tan , Yihong Gong

Crowd counting, i.e., estimation number of the pedestrian in crowd images, is emerging as an important research problem with the public security applications. A key component for the crowd counting systems is the construction of counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Xingjiao Wu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Wenxin Hu , Jing Yang , Liang He

We propose an attention-injective deformable convolutional network called ADCrowdNet for crowd understanding that can address the accuracy degradation problem of highly congested noisy scenes. ADCrowdNet contains two concatenated networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Ning Liu , Yongchao Long , Changqing Zou , Qun Niu , Li Pan , Hefeng Wu

The crowd counting task aims at estimating the number of people located in an image or a frame from videos. Existing methods widely adopt density maps as the training targets to optimize the point-to-point loss. While in testing phase, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Xiyang Liu , Jie Yang , Wenrui Ding

We propose a multitask approach for crowd counting and person localization in a unified framework. As the detection and localization tasks are well-correlated and can be jointly tackled, our model benefits from a multitask solution by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohsen Zand , Haleh Damirchi , Andrew Farley , Mahdiyar Molahasani , Michael Greenspan , Ali Etemad

Human pose estimation has recently made significant progress with the adoption of deep convolutional neural networks. Its many applications have attracted tremendous interest in recent years. However, many practical applications require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Thomas Golda , Tobias Kalb , Arne Schumann , Jürgen Beyerer

Crowd counting is a concerned and challenging task in computer vision. Existing density map based methods excessively focus on the individuals' localization which harms the crowd counting performance in highly congested scenes. In addition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xinya Chen , Yanrui Bin , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Hao Tang

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

We address the problem of crowd localization, i.e., the prediction of dots corresponding to people in a crowded scene. Due to various challenges, a localization method is prone to spatial semantic errors, i.e., predicting multiple dots…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Shahira Abousamra , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras , Chao Chen

Crowd scene analysis has received a lot of attention recently due to the wide variety of applications, for instance, forensic science, urban planning, surveillance and security. In this context, a challenging task is known as crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Rodolfo Quispe , Darwin Ttito , Adín Ramírez Rivera , Helio Pedrini

To alleviate the heavy annotation burden for training a reliable crowd counting model and thus make the model more practicable and accurate by being able to benefit from more data, this paper presents a new semi-supervised method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yifei Qian , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhongliang Guo , Ognjen Arandjelović , Carl R. Donovan

Accurately locating each head's position in the crowd scenes is a crucial task in the field of crowd analysis. However, traditional density-based methods only predict coarse prediction, and segmentation/detection-based methods cannot handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Junyu Gao , Tao Han , Qi Wang , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

Crowd counting is gaining societal relevance, particularly in domains of Urban Planning, Crowd Management, and Public Safety. This paper introduces Fourier-guided attention (FGA), a novel attention mechanism for crowd count estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yashwardhan Chaudhuri , Ankit Kumar , Arun Balaji Buduru , Adel Alshamrani

Noisy annotations such as missing annotations and location shifts often exist in crowd counting datasets due to multi-scale head sizes, high occlusion, etc. These noisy annotations severely affect the model training, especially for density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mingliang Dai , Zhizhong Huang , Jiaqi Gao , Hongming Shan , Junping Zhang

Recent sophisticated CNN-based algorithms have demonstrated their extraordinary ability to automate counting crowds from images, thanks to their structures which are designed to address the issue of various head scales. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yiming Ma

We present a method of estimating the number of people in high density crowds from still images. The method estimates counts by fusing information from multiple sources. Most of the existing work on crowd counting deals with very small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Ankan Bansal , K. S. Venkatesh

Automatic analysis of highly crowded people has attracted extensive attention from computer vision research. Previous approaches for crowd counting have already achieved promising performance across various benchmarks. However, to deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Xiaowen Shi , Xin Li , Caili Wu , Shuchen Kong , Jing Yang , Liang He

Perspective distortions and crowd variations make crowd counting a challenging task in computer vision. To tackle it, many previous works have used multi-scale architecture in deep neural networks (DNNs). Multi-scale branches can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou