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If a robot can predict crowds in parts of its environment that are inaccessible to its sensors, then it can plan to avoid them. This paper proposes a fast, online algorithm that learns average crowd densities in different areas. It also…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Anoop Aroor , Susan L. Epstein

Crowd counting in still images is a challenging problem in practice due to huge crowd-density variations, large perspective changes, severe occlusion, and variable lighting conditions. The state-of-the-art patch rescaling module (PRM) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Usman Sajid , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

Recently, multi-channel speech enhancement has drawn much interest due to the use of spatial information to distinguish target speech from interfering signal. To make full use of spatial information and neural network based masking…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Shubo Lv , Yihui Fu , Yukai Jv , Lei Xie , Weixin Zhu , Wei Rao , Yannan Wang

Most of the recent advances in crowd counting have evolved from hand-designed density estimation networks, where multi-scale features are leveraged to address the scale variation problem, but at the expense of demanding design efforts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Yutao Hu , Xiaolong Jiang , Xuhui Liu , Baochang Zhang , Jungong Han , Xianbin Cao , David Doermann

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 this paper, we propose a novel perspective-guided convolution (PGC) for convolutional neural network (CNN) based crowd counting (i.e. PGCNet), which aims to overcome the dramatic intra-scene scale variations of people due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Zhaoyi Yan , Yuchen Yuan , Wangmeng Zuo , Xiao Tan , Yezhen Wang , Shilei Wen , Errui Ding

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

Due to its variety of applications in the real-world, the task of single image-based crowd counting has received a lot of interest in the recent years. Recently, several approaches have been proposed to address various problems encountered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd counting, which has been widely adopted for estimating the number of people in safety-critical scenes, is shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples in the physical world (e.g., adversarial patches). Though harmful, adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Shunchang Liu , Jiakai Wang , Aishan Liu , Yingwei Li , Yijie Gao , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Thanks to the diffusion of the Internet of Things, nowadays it is possible to sense human mobility almost in real time using unconventional methods (e.g., number of bikes in a bike station). Due to the diffusion of such technologies, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Marco Cardia , Massimiliano Luca , Luca Pappalardo

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

Crowd counting on static images is a challenging problem due to scale variations. Recently deep neural networks have been shown to be effective in this task. However, existing neural-networks-based methods often use the multi-column or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Lingke Zeng , Xiangmin Xu , Bolun Cai , Suo Qiu , Tong Zhang

Crowd counting plays a vital role in public safety, traffic regulation, and smart city management. However, despite the impressive progress achieved by CNN- and Transformer-based models, their performance often deteriorates when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuehai Chen

In this study, we investigate the resource management challenges in next-generation mobile crowdsensing networks with the goal of minimizing task completion latency while ensuring coverage performance, i.e., an essential metric to ensure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yaru Fu , Yue Zhang , Zheng Shi , Yongna Guo , Yalin Liu

We present a deep learning framework for probabilistic pixel-wise semantic segmentation, which we term Bayesian SegNet. Semantic segmentation is an important tool for visual scene understanding and a meaningful measure of uncertainty is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Alex Kendall , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Roberto Cipolla

Training a modern deep neural network on massive labeled samples is the main paradigm in solving the scene classification problem for remote sensing, but learning from only a few data points remains a challenge. Existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Haifeng Li , Zhenqi Cui , Zhiqing Zhu , Li Chen , Jiawei Zhu , Haozhe Huang , Chao Tao

This paper proposes a novel approach for crowd counting in low to high density scenarios in static images. Current approaches cannot handle huge crowd diversity well and thus perform poorly in extreme cases, where the crowd density in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Usman Sajid , Hasan Sajid , Hongcheng Wang , Guanghui Wang

Detecting anomalies in crowded scenes is challenging due to severe inter-person occlusions and highly dynamic, context-dependent motion patterns. Existing approaches often struggle to adapt to varying crowd densities and lack interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Fatima AlGhamdi , Omar Alharbi , Abdullah Aldwyish , Raied Aljadaany , Muhammad Kamran J Khan , Huda Alamri

In recent years, there have been efforts to collect human contact traces during social events (e.g., conferences) using Bluetooth devices (e.g., mobile phones, iMotes). The results of these studies have enabled the ability to do the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Phuong Nguyen , Klara Nahrstedt