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Crowd counting is a fundamental problem in crowd analysis which is typically accomplished by estimating a crowd density map and summing over the density values. However, this approach suffers from background noise accumulation and loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yasiru Ranasinghe , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

Attention models have recently emerged as a powerful approach, demonstrating significant progress in various fields. Visualization techniques, such as class activation mapping, provide visual insights into the reasoning of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Ali Caglayan , Nevrez Imamoglu , Oguzhan Guclu , Ali Osman Serhatoglu , Ahmet Burak Can , Ryosuke Nakamura

Street scene change detection continues to capture researchers' interests in the computer vision community. It aims to identify the changed regions of the paired street-view images captured at different times. The state-of-the-art network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Shuo Chen , Kailun Yang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Crowd counting is an important problem in computer vision due to its wide range of applications in image understanding. Currently, this problem is typically addressed using deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhen Wang , Yuelei Li , Jia Wan , Nuno Vasconcelos

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

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

Crowd analysis via computer vision techniques is an important topic in the field of video surveillance, which has wide-spread applications including crowd monitoring, public safety, space design and so on. Pixel-wise crowd understanding is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Wei Lin , Yuan Yuan

The existing crowd counting methods usually adopted attention mechanism to tackle background noise, or applied multi-level features or multi-scales context fusion to tackle scale variation. However, these approaches deal with these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fusen Wang , Jun Sang , Zhongyuan Wu , Qi Liu , Nong Sang

Crowd counting, which is a key computer vision task, has emerged as a fundamental technology in crowd analysis and public safety management. However, challenges such as scale variations and complex backgrounds significantly impact the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Peng Liu , Heng-Chao Li , Sen Lei , Nanqing Liu , Bin Feng , Xiao Wu

Currently, for crowd counting, the fully supervised methods via density map estimation are the mainstream research directions. However, such methods need location-level annotation of persons in an image, which is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fusen Wang , Kai Liu , Fei Long , Nong Sang , Xiaofeng Xia , Jun Sang

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

Pedestrian detection plays an important role in many applications such as autonomous driving. We propose a method that explores semantic segmentation results as self-attention cues to significantly improve the pedestrian detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Chengju Zhou , Meiqing Wu , Siew-Kei Lam

We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Crowd scenes captured by cameras at different locations vary greatly, and existing crowd models have limited generalization for unseen surveillance scenes. To improve the generalization of the model, we regard different surveillance scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiwei Chen , Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Jing Zhang , Dingyi Li , Jing-Jia Luo

This paper investigates the role of global context for crowd counting. Specifically, a pure transformer is used to extract features with global information from overlapping image patches. Inspired by classification, we add a context token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Thomas Probst , Danda Pani Paudel , Nikola Popovic , Luc Van Gool

Nearly all existing visual saliency models by far have focused on predicting a universal saliency map across all observers. Yet psychology studies suggest that visual attention of different observers can vary significantly under specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yanyu Xu , Shenghua Gao , Junru Wu , Nianyi Li , Jingyi Yu

Recently, window-based attention methods have shown great potential for computer vision tasks, particularly in Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). However, it may fall short in capturing long-range dependencies and relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Dinh Phu Tran , Dao Duy Hung , Daeyoung Kim

Global Average Pooling (GAP) is used by default on the channel-wise attention mechanism to extract channel descriptors. However, the simple global aggregation method of GAP is easy to make the channel descriptors have homogeneity, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Mingnan Luo , Guihua Wen , Yang Hu , Dan Dai , Yingxue Xu

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

Extracting class activation maps (CAM) is a key step for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). The CAM of convolution neural networks fails to capture long-range feature dependency on the image and result in the coverage on only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jianqiang Huang , Jian Wang , Qianru Sun , Hanwang Zhang