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State-of-the-art multi-object tracking~(MOT) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, where object trajectories are obtained by associating per-frame outputs of object detectors. In crowded scenes, however, detectors often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Weihong Ren , Xinchao Wang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Antoni B. Chan

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

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

As the number of individuals in a crowd grows, enumeration-based techniques become increasingly infeasible and their estimates increasingly unreliable. We propose instead an estimation-based version of the problem: we label Rough Crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Shengqin Jiang , Linfei Li , Haokui Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Amin Beheshti , Jian Yang , Anton van den Hengel , Quan Z. Sheng , Yuankai Qi

Modern, state-of-the-art deep learning approaches yield human like performance in numerous object detection and classification tasks. The foundation for their success is the availability of training datasets of substantially high quantity,…

The challenging field of scene text detection requires complex data annotation, which is time-consuming and expensive. Techniques, such as weak supervision, can reduce the amount of data needed. In this paper we propose a weak supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Emanuel Metzenthin , Christian Bartz , Christoph Meinel

Crowd counting aims to predict the number of people and generate the density map in the image. There are many challenges, including varying head scales, the diversity of crowd distribution across images and cluttered backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xin Wang , Yang Zhao , Tangwen Yang , Qiuqi Ruan

Background noise and scale variation are common problems that have been long recognized in crowd counting. Humans glance at a crowd image and instantly know the approximate number of human and where they are through attention the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Dong Zhang , Kun Zhang , Badong Chen , Shaoyi Du

Existing works on visual counting primarily focus on one specific category at a time, such as people, animals, and cells. In this paper, we are interested in counting everything, that is to count objects from any category given only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Viresh Ranjan , Udbhav Sharma , Thu Nguyen , Minh Hoai

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

Crowd density level estimation is an essential aspect of crowd safety since it helps to identify areas of probable overcrowding and required conditions. Nowadays, AI systems can help in various sectors. Here for safety purposes or many for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mahira Arefin , Md. Anwar Hussen Wadud , Anichur Rahman

This paper presents two novel approaches for people counting in crowded and open environments that combine the information gathered by multiple views. Multiple camera are used to expand the field of view as well as to mitigate the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Fabio Dittrich , Luiz E. S. de Oliveira , Alceu S. Britto , Alessandro L. Koerich

We present a method for image-based crowd counting, one that can predict a crowd density map together with the uncertainty values pertaining to the predicted density map. To obtain prediction uncertainty, we model the crowd density values…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Viresh Ranjan , Boyu Wang , Mubarak Shah , Minh Hoai

Training object detection models usually requires instance-level annotations, such as the positions and labels of all objects present in each image. Such supervision is unfortunately not always available and, more often, only image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Martijn Oldenhof , Adam Arany , Yves Moreau , Edward De Brouwer

Crowd instance segmentation is a crucial task with a wide range of applications, including surveillance and transportation. Currently, point labels are common in crowd datasets, while region labels (e.g., boxes) are rare and inaccurate. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hongru Chen , Jiyang Huang , Jia Wan , Antoni B. Chan

Dense event captioning aims to detect and describe all events of interest contained in a video. Despite the advanced development in this area, existing methods tackle this task by making use of dense temporal annotations, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Xuguang Duan , Wenbing Huang , Chuang Gan , Jingdong Wang , Wenwu Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Current class-agnostic counting methods can generalise to unseen classes but usually require reference images to define the type of object to be counted, as well as instance annotations during training. Reference-less class-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Michael Hobley , Victor Prisacariu

With the rapid development of deep learning, object detection and tracking play a vital role in today's society. Being able to identify and track all the pedestrians in the dense crowd scene with computer vision approaches is a typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yu Zhang , Huaming Chen , Wei Bao , Zhongzheng Lai , Zao Zhang , Dong Yuan

Unlike images or videos data which can be easily labeled by human being, sensor data annotation is a time-consuming process. However, traditional methods of human activity recognition require a large amount of such strictly labeled data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kun Wang , Jun He , Lei Zhang

A crucial task in scene understanding is 3D object detection, which aims to detect and localize the 3D bounding boxes of objects belonging to specific classes. Existing 3D object detectors heavily rely on annotated 3D bounding boxes during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Zengyi Qin , Jinglu Wang , Yan Lu