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Attention is typically used to select informative sub-phrases that are used for prediction. This paper investigates the novel use of attention as a form of feature augmentation, i.e, casted attention. We propose Multi-Cast Attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yi Tay , Luu Anh Tuan , Siu Cheung Hui

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

In recent years, crowd counting and localization have become crucial techniques in computer vision, with applications spanning various domains. The presence of multi-scale crowd distributions within a single image remains a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuqing Yan , Yirui Wu

We propose a novel attention model that can accurately attends to target objects of various scales and shapes in images. The model is trained to gradually suppress irrelevant regions in an input image via a progressive attentive process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Xiaohui Shen , Bohyung Han

We propose a novel attention gate (AG) model for medical imaging that automatically learns to focus on target structures of varying shapes and sizes. Models trained with AGs implicitly learn to suppress irrelevant regions in an input image…

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

Recent works on crowd counting mainly leverage CNNs to count by regressing density maps, and have achieved great progress. In the density map, each person is represented by a Gaussian blob, and the final count is obtained from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Chenfeng Xu , Dingkang Liang , Yongchao Xu , Song Bai , Wei Zhan , Xiang Bai , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In this paper, we propose two modified neural networks based on dual path multi-scale fusion networks (SFANet) and SegNet for accurate and efficient crowd counting. Inspired by SFANet, the first model, which is named M-SFANet, is attached…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Pongpisit Thanasutives , Ken-ichi Fukui , Masayuki Numao , Boonserm Kijsirikul

Crowd counting has gained significant popularity due to its practical applications. However, mainstream counting methods ignore precise individual localization and suffer from annotation noise because of counting from estimating density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Hao-Yuan Ma , Li Zhang , Xiang-Yi Wei

This paper proposes a novel attention model for semantic segmentation, which aggregates multi-scale and context features to refine prediction. Specifically, the skeleton convolutional neural network framework takes in multiple different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shiqi Yang , Gang Peng

Automatic crowd behaviour analysis is an important task for intelligent transportation systems to enable effective flow control and dynamic route planning for varying road participants. Crowd counting is one of the keys to automatic crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Qian Wang , Toby P. Breckon

The counting task, which plays a fundamental role in numerous applications (e.g., crowd counting, traffic statistics), aims to predict the number of objects with various densities. Existing object counting tasks are designed for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Shengqin Jiang , Qing Wang , Fengna Cheng , Yuankai Qi , Qingshan Liu

Computer vision techniques have been used to produce accurate and generic crowd count estimators in recent years. Due to severe occlusions, appearance variations, perspective distortions and illumination conditions, crowd counting is a very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Haiyan Yao , Kang Han , Wanggen Wan , Li Hou

This paper investigates multi-scale feature approximation and transferable features for object detection from point clouds. Multi-scale features are critical for object detection from point clouds. However, multi-scale feature learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hao Peng , Hong Sang , Yajing Ma , Ping Qiu , Chao Ji

In this paper, we tackle the problem of Crowd Counting, and present a crowd density estimation based approach for obtaining the crowd count. Most of the existing crowd counting approaches rely on local features for estimating the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Viresh Ranjan , Mubarak Shah , Minh Hoai Nguyen

While the multi-branch architecture is one of the key ingredients to the success of computer vision tasks, it has not been well investigated in natural language processing, especially sequence learning tasks. In this work, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Yang Fan , Shufang Xie , Yingce Xia , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin , Xiang-Yang Li , Tie-Yan Liu

In this paper, we introduce the prior knowledge, multi-scale structure, into self-attention modules. We propose a Multi-Scale Transformer which uses multi-scale multi-head self-attention to capture features from different scales. Based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Pengfei Liu , Xiangyang Xue , Zheng Zhang

Most existing crowd counting systems rely on the availability of the object location annotation which can be expensive to obtain. To reduce the annotation cost, one attractive solution is to leverage a large number of unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yan Liu , Lingqiao Liu , Peng Wang , Pingping Zhang , Yinjie Lei

Multi-view crowd counting can effectively mitigate occlusion issues that commonly arise in single-image crowd counting. Existing deep-learning multi-view crowd counting methods project different camera view images onto a common space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Bin Li , Daijie Chen , Qi Zhang

Crowd counting has recently attracted increasing interest in computer vision but remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a trellis encoder-decoder network (TEDnet) for crowd counting, which focuses on generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xiaolong Jiang , Zehao Xiao , Baochang Zhang , Xiantong Zhen , Xianbin Cao , David Doermann , Ling Shao