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In this paper, we describe our study on how humans allocate their attention during visual crowd counting. Using an eye tracker, we collect gaze behavior of human participants who are tasked with counting the number of people in crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Raji Annadi , Yupei Chen , Viresh Ranjan , Dimitris Samaras , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai

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

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

Recommender systems recommend objects regardless of potential adverse effects of their overcrowding. We address this shortcoming by introducing crowd-avoiding recommendation where each object can be shared by only a limited number of users…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-18 Stanislao Gualdi , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Compared with the generic scenes, crowded scenes contain highly-overlapped instances, which result in: 1) more ambiguous anchors during training of object detectors, and 2) more predictions are likely to be mistakenly suppressed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chenyang Zhao , Jia Wan , Antoni B. Chan

Understanding crowd behaviors in a large social event is crucial for event management. Passive WiFi sensing, by collecting WiFi probe requests sent from mobile devices, provides a better way to monitor crowds compared with people counters…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Zann Koh , Chau Yuen , Benny Kai Kiat Ng

Current people detectors operate either by scanning an image in a sliding window fashion or by classifying a discrete set of proposals. We propose a model that is based on decoding an image into a set of people detections. Our system takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Russell Stewart , Mykhaylo Andriluka

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

This paper presents a crowd monitoring system based on the passive detection of probe requests. The system meets strict privacy requirements and is suited to monitoring events or buildings with a least a few hundreds of attendees. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Jean-François Determe , Sophia Azzagnuni , Utkarsh Singh , François Horlin , Philippe De Doncker

Recognizing who is speaking in a crowded scene is a key challenge towards the understanding of the social interactions going on within. Detecting speaking status from body movement alone opens the door for the analysis of social scenes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jose Vargas-Quiros , Laura Cabrera-Quiros , Hayley Hung

We consider the problem of providing dense segmentation masks for object discovery in videos. We formulate the object discovery problem as foreground motion clustering, where the goal is to cluster foreground pixels in videos into different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Christopher Xie , Yu Xiang , Zaid Harchaoui , Dieter Fox

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

Our research is focused on two main applications of crowd scene analysis crowd counting and anomaly detection In recent years a large number of researches have been presented in the domain of crowd counting We addressed two main challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Muhammad Junaid Asif

Crowd simulation is a central topic in several fields including graphics. To achieve high-fidelity simulations, data has been increasingly relied upon for analysis and simulation guidance. However, the information in real-world data is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feixiang He , Yuanhang Xiang , Xi Zhao , He Wang

In the last decade, crowd counting and localization attract much attention of researchers due to its wide-spread applications, including crowd monitoring, public safety, space design, etc. Many Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Wei Lin , Xuelong Li

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.…

Automatic people counting from images has recently drawn attention for urban monitoring in modern Smart Cities due to the ubiquity of surveillance camera networks. Current computer vision techniques rely on deep learning-based algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Marco Avvenuti , Marco Bongiovanni , Luca Ciampi , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Nicola Messina

Object detection is a trendy branch of computer vision, especially on human recognition and pedestrian detection. Recognizing the complete body of a person has always been a difficult problem. Over the years, researchers proposed various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Asati Minkesh , Kraittipong Worranitta , Miyachi Taizo

Estimating the mask-wearing ratio in public places is important as it enables health authorities to promptly analyze and implement policies. Methods for estimating the mask-wearing ratio on the basis of image analysis have been reported.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Khanh-Duy Nguyen , Huy H. Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

Understanding human behaviour in crowded indoor environments is central to surveillance, smart buildings, and human-robot interaction, yet existing datasets rarely capture real-world indoor complexity at scale. We introduce IndoorCrowd, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sebastian-Ion Nae , Radu Moldoveanu , Alexandra Stefania Ghita , Adina Magda Florea