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In real-world crowd counting applications, the crowd densities in an image vary greatly. When facing density variation, humans tend to locate and count the targets in low-density regions, and reason the number in high-density regions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Badong Chen , Shaoyi Du

The rapid development in visual crowd analysis shows a trend to count people by positioning or even detecting, rather than simply summing a density map. It also enlightens us back to the essence of the field, detection to count, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Qi wang , Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the large variations in crowd distributions. Previous methods tend to tackle the whole image with a single fixed structure, which is unable to handle diverse complicated scenes with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhikang Zou , Yu Cheng , Xiaoye Qu , Shouling Ji , Xiaoxiao Guo , Pan Zhou

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

This paper proposes a space-time multi-scale attention network (STANet) to solve density map estimation, localization and tracking in dense crowds of video clips captured by drones with arbitrary crowd density, perspective, and flight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Qilong Wang , Liefeng Bo , Siwei Lyu

Drone-based crowd monitoring is the key technology for applications in surveillance, public safety, and event management. However, maintaining tracking continuity and consistency remains a significant challenge. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Bartosz Ptak , Marek Kraft

This study enhances a crowd density estimation algorithm originally designed for image-based analysis by adapting it for video-based scenarios. The proposed method integrates a denoising probabilistic model that utilizes diffusion processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Balachandra Devarangadi Sunil , Rakshith Venkatesh , Shantanu Todmal

Crowd counting aims to learn the crowd density distributions and estimate the number of objects (e.g. persons) in images. The perspective effect, which significantly influences the distribution of data points, plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xiaoshuang Chen , Yiru Zhao , Yu Qin , Fei Jiang , Mingyuan Tao , Xiansheng Hua , Hongtao Lu

Safe and efficient navigation through human crowds is an essential capability for mobile robots. Previous work on robot crowd navigation assumes that the dynamics of all agents are known and well-defined. In addition, the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shuijing Liu , Peixin Chang , Weihang Liang , Neeloy Chakraborty , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Aiming at the metro video surveillance system has not been able to effectively solve the metro crowd density estimation problem, a Metro Crowd density estimation Network (called MCNet) is proposed to automatically classify crowd density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Qiang Guo , Rubo Zhang , Di Zhao

For crowded scenes, the accuracy of object-based computer vision methods declines when the images are low-resolution and objects have severe occlusions. Taking counting methods for example, almost all the recent state-of-the-art counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Di Kang , Zheng Ma , Antoni B. Chan

Fully-supervised crowd counting is a laborious task due to the large amounts of annotations. Few works focus on weekly-supervised crowd counting, where only the global crowd numbers are available for training. The main challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xiaoshuang Chen , Hongtao Lu

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 is gaining societal relevance, particularly in domains of Urban Planning, Crowd Management, and Public Safety. This paper introduces Fourier-guided attention (FGA), a novel attention mechanism for crowd count estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yashwardhan Chaudhuri , Ankit Kumar , Arun Balaji Buduru , Adel Alshamrani

Localizing individuals in crowds is more in accordance with the practical demands of subsequent high-level crowd analysis tasks than simply counting. However, existing localization based methods relying on intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qingyu Song , Changan Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Yang Wu

Dense crowd counting is a challenging task that demands millions of head annotations for training models. Though existing self-supervised approaches could learn good representations, they require some labeled data to map these features to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Deepak Babu Sam , Abhinav Agarwalla , Jimmy Joseph , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , R. Venkatesh Babu , Vishal M. Patel

In recent years, with the progress of deep learning technologies, crowd counting has been rapidly developed. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting framework that is able to achieve the state-of-the-art performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yue Gu , Wenxi Liu

Tremendous variation in the scale of people/head size is a critical problem for crowd counting. To improve the scale invariance of feature representation, recent works extensively employ Convolutional Neural Networks with multi-column…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Xiu Li , Qi Dai , Xiao Wu , Jun-Yan He , Alexander Hauptmann

Point cloud segmentation is one of the most important tasks in computer vision with widespread scientific, industrial, and commercial applications. The research thereof has resulted in many breakthroughs in 3D object and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Dening Lu , Jun Zhou , Kyle Yilin Gao , Dilong Li , Jing Du , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

In this paper, we propose a fast fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) for crowd segmentation. By replacing the fully connected layers in CNN with 1 by 1 convolution kernels, FCNN takes whole images as inputs and directly outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Kai Kang , Xiaogang Wang