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This paper introduces a novel method for end-to-end crowd detection that leverages object density information to enhance existing transformer-based detectors. We present CrowdQuery (CQ), whose core component is our CQ module that predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Marius Dähling , Sebastian Krebs , J. Marius Zöllner

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

Crowd counting based on density maps is generally regarded as a regression task.Deep learning is used to learn the mapping between image content and crowd density distribution. Although great success has been achieved, some pedestrians far…

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

Crowd monitoring and analysis in mass events are highly important technologies to support the security of attending persons. Proposed methods based on terrestrial or airborne image/video data often fail in achieving sufficiently accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Roland Perko , Thomas Schnabel , Gerald Fritz , Alexander Almer , Lucas Paletta

Density estimation is one of the most widely used methods for crowd counting in which a deep learning model learns from head-annotated crowd images to estimate crowd density in unseen images. Typically, the learning performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Recently, counting the number of people for crowd scenes is a hot topic because of its widespread applications (e.g. video surveillance, public security). It is a difficult task in the wild: changeable environment, large-range number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Wei Lin , Yuan Yuan

Crowd counting aims to estimate the number of persons in a scene. Most state-of-the-art crowd counting methods based on color images can't work well in poor illumination conditions due to invisible objects. With the widespread use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zhengyi Liu , Wei Wu , Yacheng Tan , Guanghui Zhang

Semi-supervised crowd counting is crucial for addressing the high annotation costs of densely populated scenes. Although several methods based on pseudo-labeling have been proposed, it remains challenging to effectively and accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Maochen Yang , Zekun Li , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density in the image plane. While useful for this purpose, this image-plane density has no immediate physical meaning because it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Weizhe Liu , Krzysztof Lis , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Recently, density map regression-based methods have dominated in crowd counting owing to their excellent fitting ability on density distribution. However, further improvement tends to saturate mainly because of the confusing background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Chenliang Gu , Changan Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Tianliang Zhang

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

Modeling crowd behavior relies on accurate data of pedestrian movements at a high level of detail. Imaging sensors such as cameras provide a good basis for capturing such detailed pedestrian motion data. However, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Stefan Seer , Norbert Brändle , Carlo Ratti

Crowd counting is an effective tool for situational awareness in public places. Automated crowd counting using images and videos is an interesting yet challenging problem that has gained significant attention in computer vision. Over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Traditional crowd counting approaches usually use Gaussian assumption to generate pseudo density ground truth, which suffers from problems like inaccurate estimation of the Gaussian kernel sizes. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hui Lin , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Xing Wei , Yunfeng Qiu , Yaowei Wang , Yihong Gong

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

Census data provide detailed information about population characteristics at a coarse resolution. Nevertheless, fine-grained, high-resolution mappings of population counts are increasingly needed to characterize population dynamics and to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Guillaume Derval , Frédéric Docquier , Pierre Schaus

Crowd counting and localization have become increasingly important in computer vision due to their wide-ranging applications. While point-based strategies have been widely used in crowd counting methods, they face a significant challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 I-Hsiang Chen , Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Wei Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Sy-Yen Kuo

In this study, we address local photo enhancement to improve the aesthetic quality of an input image by applying different effects to different regions. Existing photo enhancement methods are either not content-aware or not local;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Satoshi Kosugi , Toshihiko Yamasaki

The task of crowd counting in varying density scenes is an extremely difficult challenge due to large scale variations. In this paper, we propose a novel dual path multi-scale fusion network architecture with attention mechanism named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Liang Zhu , Zhijian Zhao , Chao Lu , Yining Lin , Yao Peng , Tangren Yao

Tremendous variation in the scale of people/head size is a critical problem for crowd counting. To improve the scale invariance of feature representation, recent works extensively employ Convolutional Neural Networks with multi-column…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Xiu Li , Qi Dai , Xiao Wu , Jun-Yan He , Alexander Hauptmann