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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 has recently attracted increasing interest in computer vision but remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a trellis encoder-decoder network (TEDnet) for crowd counting, which focuses on generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xiaolong Jiang , Zehao Xiao , Baochang Zhang , Xiantong Zhen , Xianbin Cao , David Doermann , Ling Shao

In this paper, we consider the problem of crowd counting in images. Given an image of a crowded scene, our goal is to estimate the density map of this image, where each pixel value in the density map corresponds to the crowd density at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mohammad Asiful Hossain , Mehrdad Hosseinzadeh , Omit Chanda , Yang Wang

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

In this paper, we aim at tackling the problem of crowd counting in extremely high-density scenes, which contain hundreds, or even thousands of people. We begin by a comprehensive analysis of the most widely used density map-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Hanhui Li , Xiangjian He , Hefeng Wu , Saeed Amirgholipour Kasmani , Ruomei Wang , Xiaonan Luo , Liang Lin

Perspective distortions and crowd variations make crowd counting a challenging task in computer vision. To tackle it, many previous works have used multi-scale architecture in deep neural networks (DNNs). Multi-scale branches can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

In recent years, crowd counting, a technique for predicting the number of people in an image, becomes a challenging task in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a cross-column feature fusion network to solve the problem of information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Geng Chen , Peirong Guo

In this work, we explore the cross-scale similarity in crowd counting scenario, in which the regions of different scales often exhibit high visual similarity. This feature is universal both within an image and across different images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Siyu Huang , Xi Li , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Zhongfei Zhang , Alexander Hauptmann

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

Crowd counting plays a vital role in public safety, traffic regulation, and smart city management. However, despite the impressive progress achieved by CNN- and Transformer-based models, their performance often deteriorates when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuehai Chen

Crowd counting presents enormous challenges in the form of large variation in scales within images and across the dataset. These issues are further exacerbated in highly congested scenes. Approaches based on straightforward fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Vishwanath A Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the large variations in crowd distributions. Previous methods tend to tackle the whole image with a single fixed structure, which is unable to handle diverse complicated scenes with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhikang Zou , Yu Cheng , Xiaoye Qu , Shouling Ji , Xiaoxiao Guo , Pan Zhou

While the performance of crowd counting via deep learning has been improved dramatically in the recent years, it remains an ingrained problem due to cluttered backgrounds and varying scales of people within an image. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yunqi Miao , Zijia Lin , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han

The class-agnostic counting (CAC) task has recently been proposed to solve the problem of counting all objects of an arbitrary class with several exemplars given in the input image. To address this challenging task, existing leading methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hefeng Wu , Yandong Chen , Lingbo Liu , Tianshui Chen , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

Traditional crowd counting networks suffer from information loss when feature maps are downsized through pooling layers, leading to inaccuracies in counting crowds at a distance. Existing methods often assume correct annotations during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Yu-Chee Tseng , Ming-Ching Chang , Li Xin

Buildings' segmentation is a fundamental task in the field of earth observation and aerial imagery analysis. Most existing deep learning-based methods in the literature can be applied to a fixed or narrow-range spatial resolution imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Hasan Nasrallah , Mustafa Shukor , Ali J. Ghandour

In this paper, we propose two modified neural networks based on dual path multi-scale fusion networks (SFANet) and SegNet for accurate and efficient crowd counting. Inspired by SFANet, the first model, which is named M-SFANet, is attached…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Pongpisit Thanasutives , Ken-ichi Fukui , Masayuki Numao , Boonserm Kijsirikul

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the issues such as scale variation and perspective variation in real crowd scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel Cascaded Residual Density Network (CRDNet) in a coarse-to-fine approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kun Zhao , Luchuan Song , Bin Liu , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Crowd counting in single-view images has achieved outstanding performance on existing counting datasets. However, single-view counting is not applicable to large and wide scenes (e.g., public parks, long subway platforms, or event spaces)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Qi Zhang , Antoni B. Chan