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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

Single image-based crowd counting has recently witnessed increased focus, but many leading methods are far from optimal, especially in highly congested scenes. In this paper, we present Hierarchical Attention-based Crowd Counting Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

In this paper we advance the state-of-the-art for crowd counting in high density scenes by further exploring the idea of a fully convolutional crowd counting model introduced by (Zhang et al., 2016). Producing an accurate and robust crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Mark Marsden , Kevin McGuinness , Suzanne Little , Noel E. O'Connor

Crowd counting is an important problem in computer vision due to its wide range of applications in image understanding. Currently, this problem is typically addressed using deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhen Wang , Yuelei Li , Jia Wan , Nuno Vasconcelos

In recent years, crowd counting and localization have become crucial techniques in computer vision, with applications spanning various domains. The presence of multi-scale crowd distributions within a single image remains a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuqing Yan , Yirui Wu

Image captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions for input images in an open-form manner. To accurately generate descriptions related to the image, a critical step in image captioning is to identify objects and understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jinjing Gu , Tianbao Qin , Yuanyuan Pu , Zhengpeng Zhao

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

Crowd counting aims to learn the crowd density distributions and estimate the number of objects (e.g. persons) in images. The perspective effect, which significantly influences the distribution of data points, plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xiaoshuang Chen , Yiru Zhao , Yu Qin , Fei Jiang , Mingyuan Tao , Xiansheng Hua , Hongtao Lu

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

Safe and efficient crowd navigation for mobile robot is a crucial yet challenging task. Previous work has shown the power of deep reinforcement learning frameworks to train efficient policies. However, their performance deteriorates when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Yuying Chen , Congcong Liu , Ming Liu , Bertram E. Shi

Modeling spatial heterogeneity in the data generation process is essential for understanding and predicting geographical phenomena. Despite their prevalence in geospatial tasks, neural network models usually assume spatial stationarity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Guo , Han Wang , Di Zhu , Lun Wu , A. Stewart Fotheringham , Yu Liu

Multi-modal crowd counting is a crucial task that uses multi-modal cues to estimate the number of people in crowded scenes. To overcome the gap between different modalities, we propose a modal emulation-based two-pass multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chenhao Wang , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Yupeng Wei , Yabin Wang , Xiaopeng Fan

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

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

Accurate RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) crowd counting is crucial for public safety in challenging conditions. While recent Transformer-based methods excel at capturing global context, their inherent lack of spatial inductive bias causes attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuhong Feng , Hongtao Chen , Qi Zhang , Jie Chen , Zhaoxi He , Mingzhe Liu , Jianghai Liao

Counting objects in digital images is a process that should be replaced by machines. This tedious task is time consuming and prone to errors due to fatigue of human annotators. The goal is to have a system that takes as input an image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Joseph Paul Cohen , Genevieve Boucher , Craig A. Glastonbury , Henry Z. Lo , Yoshua Bengio

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

In crowd counting datasets, people appear at different scales, depending on their distance from the camera. To address this issue, we propose a novel multi-branch scale-aware attention network that exploits the hierarchical structure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Rahul Rama Varior , Bing Shuai , Joseph Tighe , Davide Modolo

Fully-supervised crowd counting is a laborious task due to the large amounts of annotations. Few works focus on weekly-supervised crowd counting, where only the global crowd numbers are available for training. The main challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xiaoshuang Chen , Hongtao Lu

We consider the problem of segmenting dynamic regions in CrowdCam images, where a dynamic region is the projection of a moving 3D object on the image plane. Quite often, these regions are the most interesting parts of an image. CrowdCam…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Nir Zarrabi , Shai Avidan , Yael Moses