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Forecasting the flow of crowds is of great importance to traffic management and public safety, yet a very challenging task affected by many complex factors, such as inter-region traffic, events and weather. In this paper, we propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Junbo Zhang , Yu Zheng , Dekang Qi

Single image-based crowd counting has recently witnessed increased focus, but many leading methods are far from optimal, especially in highly congested scenes. In this paper, we present Hierarchical Attention-based Crowd Counting Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

RGB-Thermal (T) crowd counting aims to integrate visible-spectrum and thermal infrared information to improve the robustness of crowd density estimation in complex scenes. Although existing studies generally improve counting accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinghao Shi , Mengqi Lei , Kunliang He , Yun Li , Wei Bao , Siqi Li

In this paper, we present a novel method Coarse- and Fine-grained Attention Network (CFANet) for generating high-quality crowd density maps and people count estimation by incorporating attention maps to better focus on the crowd area. We…

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

Crowd counting is a task of estimating the number of the crowd through images, which is extremely valuable in the fields of intelligent security, urban planning, public safety management, and so on. However, the existing counting methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yubin Wen , Siyu Yang , Lichen Ning , Yuandong Liu , Junyu Gao

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the heavy occlusions, scales, and density variations. Existing methods handle these challenges effectively while ignoring low-resolution (LR) circumstances. The LR circumstances weaken the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jiahao Xie , Wei Xu , Dingkang Liang , Zhanyu Ma , Kongming Liang , Weidong Liu , Rui Wang , Ling Jin

Crowd counting presents enormous challenges in the form of large variation in scales within images and across the dataset. These issues are further exacerbated in highly congested scenes. Approaches based on straightforward fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Vishwanath A Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd localization is a new computer vision task, evolved from crowd counting. Different from the latter, it provides more precise location information for each instance, not just counting numbers for the whole crowd scene, which brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Junyu Gao , Maoguo Gong , Xuelong Li

Crowd management is of paramount importance when it comes to preventing stampedes and saving lives, especially in a countries like China and India where the combined population is a third of the global population. Millions of people convene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Varun Kannadi Valloli , Kinal Mehta

Most conventional crowd counting methods utilize a fully-supervised learning framework to establish a mapping between scene images and crowd density maps. They usually rely on a large quantity of costly and time-intensive pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiaqi Gao , Zhizhong Huang , Yiming Lei , Hongming Shan , James Z. Wang , Fei-Yue Wang , Junping Zhang

Crowd density estimation is a well-known computer vision task aimed at estimating the density distribution of people in an image. The main challenge in this domain is the reliance on fine-grained location-level annotations, (i.e. points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mattia Litrico , Feng Chen , Michael Pound , Sotirios A Tsaftaris , Sebastiano Battiato , Mario Valerio Giuffrida

An important aspect of urban planning is understanding crowd levels at various locations, which typically require the use of physical sensors. Such sensors are potentially costly and time consuming to implement on a large scale. To address…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jerome Heng , Junhua Liu , Kwan Hui Lim

The problem of counting crowds in varying density scenes or in different density regions of the same scene, named as pan-density crowd counting, is highly challenging. Previous methods are designed for single density scenes or do not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yukun Tian , Yiming Lei , Junping Zhang , James Z. Wang

The rapid development in visual crowd analysis shows a trend to count people by positioning or even detecting, rather than simply summing a density map. It also enlightens us back to the essence of the field, detection to count, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Qi wang , Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

Most recent methods used for crowd counting are based on the convolutional neural network (CNN), which has a strong ability to extract local features. But CNN inherently fails in modeling the global context due to the limited receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Ye Tian , Xiangxiang Chu , Hongpeng Wang

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

Visible and infrared image fusion (VIF) is an important multimedia task in computer vision. Most VIF methods focus primarily on optimizing fused image quality. Recent studies have begun incorporating downstream tasks, such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 He Li , Xinyu Liu , Weihang Kong , Xingchen Zhang

Crowd estimation is a very challenging problem. The most recent study tries to exploit auditory information to aid the visual models, however, the performance is limited due to the lack of an effective approach for feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Usman Sajid , Xiangyu Chen , Hasan Sajid , Taejoon Kim , Guanghui Wang

RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) crowd counting is a challenging task, which uses thermal images as complementary information to RGB images to deal with the decreased performance of unimodal RGB-based methods in scenes with low-illumination or similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Pengyu Chen , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting and localization network named SCALNet. Unlike most existing works that separate the counting and localization tasks, we consider those tasks as a pixel-wise dense prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yi Wang , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau