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Crowd counting, which is a key computer vision task, has emerged as a fundamental technology in crowd analysis and public safety management. However, challenges such as scale variations and complex backgrounds significantly impact the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Peng Liu , Heng-Chao Li , Sen Lei , Nanqing Liu , Bin Feng , Xiao Wu

Crowd counting has been widely studied by computer vision community in recent years. Due to the large scale variation, it remains to be a challenging task. Previous methods adopt either multi-column CNN or single-column CNN with multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Feng Dai , Hao Liu , Yike Ma , Juan Cao , Qiang Zhao , Yongdong Zhang

We propose a novel crowd counting model that maps a given crowd scene to its density. Crowd analysis is compounded by myriad of factors like inter-occlusion between people due to extreme crowding, high similarity of appearance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Deepak Babu Sam , Shiv Surya , R. Venkatesh Babu

Encoder-decoder based Sequence to Sequence learning (S2S) has made remarkable progress in recent years. Different network architectures have been used in the encoder/decoder. Among them, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Self…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Di He , Jianfeng Lu , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

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 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

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based crowd counting methods have achieved promising results in the past few years. However, the scale variation problem is still a huge challenge for accurate count estimation. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xiaoheng Jiang , Xinyi Wu , Hisham Cholakkal , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Jiale Cao Mingliang Xu , Bing Zhou , Yanwei Pang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

With the development of deep neural networks, the performance of crowd counting and pixel-wise density estimation are continually being refreshed. Despite this, there are still two challenging problems in this field: 1) current supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

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

In this work, we address the challenge of Scene Change Detection (SCD), where the goal is to identify variations between two images of the same location captured at different times. Existing SCD models often overlook the varying importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jiae Yoon , Ue-Hwan Kim

The existing crowd counting methods usually adopted attention mechanism to tackle background noise, or applied multi-level features or multi-scales context fusion to tackle scale variation. However, these approaches deal with these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fusen Wang , Jun Sang , Zhongyuan Wu , Qi Liu , Nong Sang

The task of crowd counting is extremely challenging due to complicated difficulties, especially the huge variation in vision scale. Previous works tend to adopt a naive concatenation of multi-scale information to tackle it, while the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhikang Zou , Yifan Liu , Shuangjie Xu , Wei Wei , Shiping Wen , Pan Zhou

Crowd counting is an important task that shown great application value in public safety-related fields, which has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In the current research, the accuracy of counting numbers and crowd density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Qiaosi Yi , Yunxing Liu , Aiwen Jiang , Juncheng Li , Kangfu Mei , Mingwen Wang

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting and localization network named SCALNet. Unlike most existing works that separate the counting and localization tasks, we consider those tasks as a pixel-wise dense prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yi Wang , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

Crowd counting is a challenging problem due to the scene complexity and scale variation. Although deep learning has achieved great improvement in crowd counting, scene complexity affects the judgement of these methods and they usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Jiwei Chen , Wen Su , Zengfu Wang

Crowd counting remains challenging in variable-density scenes due to scale variations, occlusions, and the high computational cost of existing models. To address these issues, we propose RepSFNet (Reparameterized Single Fusion Network), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mas Nurul Achmadiah , Chi-Chia Sun , Wen-Kai Kuo , Jun-Wei Hsieh

Crowd counting, i.e., estimating the number of people in a crowded area, has attracted much interest in the research community. Although many attempts have been reported, crowd counting remains an open real-world problem due to the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Saeed Amirgholipour , Xiangjian He , Wenjing Jia , Dadong Wang , Lei Liu

In this paper, a novel Unified Multi-Task Learning Framework of Real-Time Drone Supervision for Crowd Counting (MFCC) is proposed, which utilizes an image fusion network architecture to fuse images from the visible and thermal infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Siqi Gu , Zhichao Lian

Multi-scale features are essential for dense prediction tasks, such as object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation. The prevailing methods usually utilize a classification backbone to extract multi-scale features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Gang Zhang , Ziyi Li , Chufeng Tang , Jianmin Li , Xiaolin Hu

Semantic segmentation is an essential technology for self-driving cars to comprehend their surroundings. Currently, real-time semantic segmentation networks commonly employ either encoder-decoder architecture or two-pathway architecture.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yalun Wang , Shidong Chen , Huicong Bian , Weixiao Li , Qin Lu