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In this paper, we address the challenging problem of crowd counting in congested scenes. Specifically, we present Inverse Attention Guided Deep Crowd Counting Network (IA-DCCN) that efficiently infuses segmentation information through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd counting from a single image is a challenging task due to high appearance similarity, perspective changes and severe congestion. Many methods only focus on the local appearance features and they cannot handle the aforementioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Junyu Gao , Qi Wang , Xuelong Li

This paper focuses on the challenging crowd counting task. As large-scale variations often exist within crowd images, neither fixed-size convolution kernel of CNN nor fixed-size attention of recent vision transformers can well handle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hui Lin , Zhiheng Ma , Rongrong Ji , Yaowei Wang , Xiaopeng Hong

Traditional crowd counting networks suffer from information loss when feature maps are downsized through pooling layers, leading to inaccuracies in counting crowds at a distance. Existing methods often assume correct annotations during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Yu-Chee Tseng , Ming-Ching Chang , Li Xin

Crowd counting usually addressed by density estimation becomes an increasingly important topic in computer vision due to its widespread applications in video surveillance, urban planning, and intelligence gathering. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ze Wang , Zehao Xiao , Kai Xie , Qiang Qiu , Xiantong Zhen , Xianbin Cao

Precise knowledge about the size of a crowd, its density and flow can provide valuable information for safety and security applications, event planning, architectural design and to analyze consumer behavior. Creating a powerful machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Mahdi Maktabdar Oghaz , Anish R Khadka , Vasileios Argyriou , Paolo Remagnino

Crowd counting is an important task in computer vision, which has many applications in video surveillance. Although the regression-based framework has achieved great improvements for crowd counting, how to improve the discriminative power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Biyun Sheng , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Jun Li , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

Crowd counting, i.e., estimation number of the pedestrian in crowd images, is emerging as an important research problem with the public security applications. A key component for the crowd counting systems is the construction of counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Xingjiao Wu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Wenxin Hu , Jing Yang , Liang He

State-of-the-art crowd counting models follow an encoder-decoder approach. Images are first processed by the encoder to extract features. Then, to account for perspective distortion, the highest-level feature map is fed to extra components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yiming Ma , Victor Sanchez , Tanaya Guha

High-density object counting in surveillance scenes is challenging mainly due to the drastic variation of object scales. The prevalence of deep learning has largely boosted the object counting accuracy on several benchmark datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Muming Zhao , Jian Zhang , Chongyang Zhang , Wenjun Zhang

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

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

In the field of crowd counting, the current mainstream CNN-based regression methods simply extract the density information of pedestrians without finding the position of each person. This makes the output of the network often found to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yi Hou , Chengyang Li , Fan Yang , Cong Ma , Liping Zhu , Yuan Li , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie

Crowd counting models in highly congested areas confront two main challenges: weak localization ability and difficulty in differentiating between foreground and background, leading to inaccurate estimations. The reason is that objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuehai Chen , Qingzhong Wang , Jing Yang , Badong Chen , Haoyi Xiong , Shaoyi Du

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the issues such as scale variation and perspective variation in real crowd scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel Cascaded Residual Density Network (CRDNet) in a coarse-to-fine approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kun Zhao , Luchuan Song , Bin Liu , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

With multiple crowd gatherings of millions of people every year in events ranging from pilgrimages to protests, concerts to marathons, and festivals to funerals; visual crowd analysis is emerging as a new frontier in computer vision. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Haroon Idrees , Muhmmad Tayyab , Kishan Athrey , Dong Zhang , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Nasir Rajpoot , Mubarak Shah

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

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

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

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