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The existing crowd counting models require extensive training data, which is time-consuming to annotate. To tackle this issue, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting method by utilizing the Segment-Everything-Everywhere Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jia Wan , Qiangqiang Wu , Wei Lin , Antoni B. Chan

People counting system in crowded places has become a very useful practical application that can be accomplished in various ways which include many traditional methods using sensors. Examining the case of real time scenarios, the algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Satyanarayana Penke , Gopikrishna Pavuluri , Soukhya Kunda , Satvik M , CharanKumar Y

Crowd counting is a concerned and challenging task in computer vision. Existing density map based methods excessively focus on the individuals' localization which harms the crowd counting performance in highly congested scenes. In addition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Xinya Chen , Yanrui Bin , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang , Hao Tang

Estimating crowd count in densely crowded scenes is an extremely challenging task due to non-uniform scale variations. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end cascaded network of CNNs to jointly learn crowd count classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

The mainstream crowd counting methods regress density map and integrate it to obtain counting results. Since the density representation to one head accords to its adjacent distribution, it embeds the same category objects with variant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Wang , Juncheng Wang , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

Counting people in dense crowds is a demanding task even for humans. This is primarily due to the large variability in appearance of people. Often people are only seen as a bunch of blobs. Occlusions, pose variations and background clutter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Deepak Babu Sam , R. Venkatesh Babu

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

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

Computer vision techniques have been used to produce accurate and generic crowd count estimators in recent years. Due to severe occlusions, appearance variations, perspective distortions and illumination conditions, crowd counting is a very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Haiyan Yao , Kang Han , Wanggen Wan , Li Hou

Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Guangshuai Gao , Junyu Gao , Qingjie Liu , Qi Wang , Yunhong Wang

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

Accurate people localisation using drones is crucial for effective crowd management, not only during massive events and public gatherings but also for monitoring daily urban crowd flow. Traditional methods for tiny object localisation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bartosz Ptak , Marek Kraft

Crowd counting is one of the core tasks in various surveillance applications. A practical system involves estimating accurate head counts in dynamic scenarios under different lightning, camera perspective and occlusion states. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Li Wang , Weiyuan Shao , Yao Lu , Hao Ye , Jian Pu , Yingbin Zheng

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 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

Point detection has been developed to locate pedestrians in crowded scenes by training a counter through a point-to-point (P2P) supervision scheme. Despite its excellent localization and counting performance, training a point-based counter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wei Lin , Chenyang Zhao , Antoni B. Chan

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. While effective, these data-driven approaches rely on large amount of data annotation to achieve good performance, which stops…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Weizhe Liu , Nikita Durasov , Pascal Fua

Navigation in dense crowds is a well-known open problem in robotics with many challenges in mapping, localization, and planning. Traditional solutions consider dense pedestrians as passive/active moving obstacles that are the cause of all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tingxiang Fan , Dawei Wang , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

We develop a Synthetic Fusion Pyramid Network (SPF-Net) with a scale-aware loss function design for accurate crowd counting. Existing crowd-counting methods assume that the training annotation points were accurate and thus ignore the fact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Yu-Chee Tseng , Ming-Ching Chang , Bor-Shiun Wang

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