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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

We seek to improve crowd counting as we perceive limits of currently prevalent density map estimation approach on both prediction accuracy and time efficiency. We leverage multilevel pixelation of density map as it helps improve SNR of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhuojun Chen , Junhao Cheng , Yuchen Yuan , Dongping Liao , Yizhou Li , Jiancheng Lv

Computer vision tasks often have side information available that is helpful to solve the task. For example, for crowd counting, the camera perspective (e.g., camera angle and height) gives a clue about the appearance and scale of people in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Di Kang , Debarun Dhar , Antoni B. Chan

Recently, many Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) have been successfully employed in bitemporal SAR image change detection. However, most of the existing networks are too heavy and occupy a large volume of memory for storage and calculation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Licheng Jiao , Jia-Wei Chen , Bo Liu , Wenping Ma , Mi Wang

Crowd management technologies that leverage computer vision are widespread in contemporary times. There exists many security-related applications of these methods, including, but not limited to: following the flow of an array of people and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Soufien Hamrouni , Hakim Ghazzai , Hamid Menouar , Yahya Massoud

The estimation of crowd count in images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. Recently, the convolutional neural network (CNN) based approaches have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Xinghao Ding , Zhirui Lin , Fujin He , Yu Wang , Yue Huang

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

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

This study enhances a crowd density estimation algorithm originally designed for image-based analysis by adapting it for video-based scenarios. The proposed method integrates a denoising probabilistic model that utilizes diffusion processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Balachandra Devarangadi Sunil , Rakshith Venkatesh , Shantanu Todmal

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

The aim of crowd counting is to estimate the number of people in images by leveraging the annotation of center positions for pedestrians' heads. Promising progresses have been made with the prevalence of deep Convolutional Neural Networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Xiu Li , Qi Dai , Xiao Wu , Alexander Hauptmann

Visual crowd counting estimates the density of the crowd using deep learning models such as convolution neural networks (CNNs). The performance of the model heavily relies on the quality of the training data that constitutes crowd images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

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

Density regression has been widely employed in crowd counting. However, the frequency imbalance of pixel values in the density map is still an obstacle to improve the performance. In this paper, we propose a novel learning strategy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenxi Li , Zhuoqun Cao , Qian Wang , Songjian Chen , Rui Feng

As deep neural networks are increasingly used in applications suited for low-power devices, a fundamental dilemma becomes apparent: the trend is to grow models to absorb increasing data that gives rise to memory intensive; however low-power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Weiyu Guo , Jiabin Ma , Liang Wang , Yongzhen Huang

This paper analyzes the design choices of face detection architecture that improve efficiency of computation cost and accuracy. Specifically, we re-examine the effectiveness of the standard convolutional block as a lightweight backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Joonhyun Jeong , Beomyoung Kim , Joonsang Yu , Youngjoon Yoo

We propose an attention-injective deformable convolutional network called ADCrowdNet for crowd understanding that can address the accuracy degradation problem of highly congested noisy scenes. ADCrowdNet contains two concatenated networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Ning Liu , Yongchao Long , Changqing Zou , Qun Niu , Li Pan , Hefeng Wu

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. While effective, deep learning approaches are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which, in a crowd-counting context, can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Deep neural networks are increasingly used on mobile devices, where computational resources are limited. In this paper we develop CondenseNet, a novel network architecture with unprecedented efficiency. It combines dense connectivity with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Gao Huang , Shichen Liu , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Previous work generally believes that improving the spatial invariance of convolutional networks is the key to object counting. However, after verifying several mainstream counting networks, we surprisingly found too strict pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Qi Dai , Hong Li , JingKuan Song , Xiao Wu , Alexander G. Hauptmann