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State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. They typically use the same filters over the whole image or over large image patches. Only then do they estimate local scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Crowd counting is an important yet challenging task in computer vision due to serious occlusions, complex background and large scale variations, etc. Multi-column architecture is widely adopted to overcome these challenges, yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Junhao Cheng , Zhuojun Chen , XinYu Zhang , Yizhou Li , Xiaoyuan Jing

Crowd counting remains a challenging task because the presence of drastic scale variation, density inconsistency, and complex background can seriously degrade the counting accuracy. To battle the ingrained issue of accuracy degradation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Mingjie Wang , Hao Cai , Xianfeng Han , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong

Crowd counting aims to count the number of instantaneous people in a crowded space, and many promising solutions have been proposed for single image crowd counting. With the ubiquitous video capture devices in public safety field, how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xingjiao Wu , Baohan Xu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Jing Yang , Liang He

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

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

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

Our work proposes a novel deep learning framework for estimating crowd density from static images of highly dense crowds. We use a combination of deep and shallow, fully convolutional networks to predict the density map for a given crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Lokesh Boominathan , Srinivas S S Kruthiventi , R. Venkatesh Babu

Crowd counting is the task of estimating people numbers in crowd images. Modern crowd counting methods employ deep neural networks to estimate crowd counts via crowd density regressions. A major challenge of this task lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Miaojing Shi , Zhaohui Yang , Chao Xu , Qijun Chen

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

The problem of counting crowds in varying density scenes or in different density regions of the same scene, named as pan-density crowd counting, is highly challenging. Previous methods are designed for single density scenes or do not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yukun Tian , Yiming Lei , Junping Zhang , James Z. Wang

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

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

Current crowd counting algorithms are only concerned about the number of people in an image, which lacks low-level fine-grained information of the crowd. For many practical applications, the total number of people in an image is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Jia Wan , Nikil Senthil Kumar , Antoni B. Chan

Counting people or objects with significantly varying scales and densities has attracted much interest from the research community and yet it remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a simple but an efficient and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Lei Liu , Jie Jiang , Wenjing Jia , Saeed Amirgholipour , Michelle Zeibots , Xiangjian He

We formulate counting as a sequential decision problem and present a novel crowd counting model solvable by deep reinforcement learning. In contrast to existing counting models that directly output count values, we divide one-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Liang Liu , Hao Lu , Hongwei Zou , Haipeng Xiong , Zhiguo Cao , Chunhua Shen

To promote the developments of object detection, tracking and counting algorithms in drone-captured videos, we construct a benchmark with a new drone-captured largescale dataset, named as DroneCrowd, formed by 112 video clips with 33,600 HD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Qilong Wang , Liefeng Bo , Siwei Lyu

Crowd counting, for estimating the number of people in a crowd using vision-based computer techniques, has attracted much interest in the research community. Although many attempts have been reported, real-world problems, such as huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Saeed Amirgholipour Kasmani , Xiangjian He , Wenjing Jia , Dadong Wang , Michelle Zeibots

In this paper, we propose a novel self-training approach named Crowd-SDNet that enables a typical object detector trained only with point-level annotations (i.e., objects are labeled with points) to estimate both the center points and sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yi Wang , Junhui Hou , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

In real-world crowd counting applications, the crowd densities vary greatly in spatial and temporal domains. A detection based counting method will estimate crowds accurately in low density scenes, while its reliability in congested areas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Jiang Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Deyu Meng , Alexander G. Hauptmann