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Even though convolutional neural networks (CNN) has achieved near-human performance in various computer vision tasks, its ability to tolerate scale variations is limited. The popular practise is making the model bigger first, and then train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Yichong Xu , Tianjun Xiao , Jiaxing Zhang , Kuiyuan Yang , Zheng Zhang

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

Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Weixin Xu , Ziliang Wang

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

We present a novel method called Contextual Pyramid CNN (CP-CNN) for generating high-quality crowd density and count estimation by explicitly incorporating global and local contextual information of crowd images. The proposed CP-CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Gatherings of thousands to millions of people frequently occur for an enormous variety of events, and automated counting of these high-density crowds is useful for safety, management, and measuring significance of an event. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Greg Olmschenk , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

We formulate counting as a sequential decision problem and present a novel crowd counting model solvable by deep reinforcement learning. In contrast to existing counting models that directly output count values, we divide one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Liang Liu , Hao Lu , Hongwei Zou , Haipeng Xiong , Zhiguo Cao , Chunhua Shen

Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Guangshuai Gao , Junyu Gao , Qingjie Liu , Qi Wang , Yunhong Wang

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) has seen significant advancements through the integration of deep learning. However, the substantial computational and memory requirements of existing methods often limit their practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xin Xu , Jinman Park , Paul Fieguth

Multi-view crowd counting has been previously proposed to utilize multi-cameras to extend the field-of-view of a single camera, capturing more people in the scene, and improve counting performance for occluded people or those in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Qi Zhang , Wei Lin , Antoni B. Chan

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated great results for the single-image super-resolution (SISR) problem. Currently, most CNN algorithms promote deep and computationally expensive models to solve SISR. However, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Vandit Jain , Prakhar Bansal , Abhinav Kumar Singh , Rajeev Srivastava

Multi-scale features are essential for dense prediction tasks, such as object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation. The prevailing methods usually utilize a classification backbone to extract multi-scale features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gang Zhang , Ziyi Li , Chufeng Tang , Jianmin Li , Xiaolin Hu

In recent years, using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) as a feature encoder (or backbone) is the most commonly observed architectural pattern in several computer vision methods, and semantic segmentation is no exception. The two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Venkata Satya Sai Ajay Daliparthi

Compared with single image based crowd counting, video provides the spatial-temporal information of the crowd that would help improve the robustness of crowd counting. But translation, rotation and scaling of people lead to the change of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yanyan Fang , Biyun Zhan , Wandi Cai , Shenghua Gao , Bo Hu

Large-scale point cloud consists of a multitude of individual objects, thereby encompassing rich structural and underlying semantic contextual information, resulting in a challenging problem in efficiently segmenting a point cloud. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhenchao Lin , Li He , Hongqiang Yang , Xiaoqun Sun , Cuojin Zhang , Weinan Chen , Yisheng Guan , Hong Zhang

Dense crowd counting aims to predict thousands of human instances from an image, by calculating integrals of a density map over image pixels. Existing approaches mainly suffer from the extreme density variances. Such density pattern shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Chenfeng Xu , Kai Qiu , Jianlong Fu , Song Bai , Yongchao Xu , Xiang Bai

The existing crowd counting models require extensive training data, which is time-consuming to annotate. To tackle this issue, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting method by utilizing the Segment-Everything-Everywhere Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jia Wan , Qiangqiang Wu , Wei Lin , Antoni B. Chan

In this work, we tackle the problem of crowd counting in images. We present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based density estimation approach to solve this problem. Predicting a high resolution density map in one go is a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Viresh Ranjan , Hieu Le , Minh Hoai

Image segmentation plays an essential role in nuclei image analysis. Recently, the segment anything model has made a significant breakthrough in such tasks. However, the current model exists two major issues for cell segmentation: (1) the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Qing Xu , Wenwei Kuang , Zeyu Zhang , Xueyao Bao , Haoran Chen , Wenting Duan