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Recently, density map regression-based methods have dominated in crowd counting owing to their excellent fitting ability on density distribution. However, further improvement tends to saturate mainly because of the confusing background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Chenliang Gu , Changan Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Tianliang Zhang

Supervised crowd counting relies heavily on costly manual labeling, which is difficult and expensive, especially in dense scenes. To alleviate the problem, we propose a novel unsupervised framework for crowd counting, named CrowdCLIP. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Dingkang Liang , Jiahao Xie , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Wei Xu , Xiang Bai

The paper focuses on improving the recent plug-and-play patch rescaling module (PRM) based approaches for crowd counting. In order to make full use of the PRM potential and obtain more reliable and accurate results for challenging images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Usman Sajid , Guanghui Wang

In the context of crowd counting, most of the works have focused on improving the accuracy without regard to the performance leading to algorithms that are not suitable for embedded applications. In this paper, we propose a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Javier Antonio Gonzalez-Trejo , Diego Alberto Mercado-Ravell

Fully-supervised crowd counting is a laborious task due to the large amounts of annotations. Few works focus on weekly-supervised crowd counting, where only the global crowd numbers are available for training. The main challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xiaoshuang Chen , Hongtao Lu

Crowd counting typically relies on labor-intensive point-level annotations and computationally intensive backbones, restricting its scalability and deployment in resource-constrained environments. To address these challenges, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qiang Guo , Rubo Zhang , Bingbing Zhang , Junjie Liu , Jianqing Liu

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

Traditional crowd counting approaches usually use Gaussian assumption to generate pseudo density ground truth, which suffers from problems like inaccurate estimation of the Gaussian kernel sizes. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hui Lin , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Xing Wei , Yunfeng Qiu , Yaowei Wang , Yihong Gong

Video-based high-density crowd analysis and prediction has been a long-standing topic in computer vision. It is notoriously difficult due to, but not limited to, the lack of high-quality data and complex crowd dynamics. Consequently, it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Feixiang He , Jiangbei Yue , Jialin Zhu , Armin Seyfried , Dan Casas , Julien Pettré , He Wang

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

The task of crowd counting is extremely challenging due to complicated difficulties, especially the huge variation in vision scale. Previous works tend to adopt a naive concatenation of multi-scale information to tackle it, while the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhikang Zou , Yifan Liu , Shuangjie Xu , Wei Wei , Shiping Wen , Pan Zhou

Crowd counting and localization are important in applications such as public security and traffic management. Existing methods have achieved impressive results thanks to extensive laborious annotations. This paper propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yuda Zou , Zelong Liu , Yuliang Gu , Bo Du , Yongchao Xu

Crowd counting aims to count the number of instantaneous people in a crowded space, and many promising solutions have been proposed for single image crowd counting. With the ubiquitous video capture devices in public safety field, how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xingjiao Wu , Baohan Xu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Jing Yang , Liang He

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

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

The mainstream crowd counting methods usually utilize the convolution neural network (CNN) to regress a density map, requiring point-level annotations. However, annotating each person with a point is an expensive and laborious process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Dingkang Liang , Xiwu Chen , Wei Xu , Yu Zhou , Xiang Bai

In this paper, a novel Unified Multi-Task Learning Framework of Real-Time Drone Supervision for Crowd Counting (MFCC) is proposed, which utilizes an image fusion network architecture to fuse images from the visible and thermal infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Siqi Gu , Zhichao Lian

Crowd counting is an important yet challenging task due to the large scale and density variation. Recent investigations have shown that distilling rich relations among multi-scale features and exploiting useful information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Xin Li , Dong Nie , Zhicheng Jiao , Shangchen Zhou , Hong Cheng

Autonomous systems such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) need to be able to recognise and track crowds of people, e.g. for rescuing and surveillance purposes. Large groups generate multiple measurements with uncertain origin.…

Image-based multi-person reconstruction in wide-field large scenes is critical for crowd analysis and security alert. However, existing methods cannot deal with large scenes containing hundreds of people, which encounter the challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Hao Wen , Jing Huang , Huili Cui , Haozhe Lin , YuKun Lai , Lu Fang , Kun Li