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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

Sampling-based decoding underlies complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs), where decoding strategies critically shape model behavior. Temperature- and truncation-based methods reshape the next-token distribution through global…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yixin Yang , Qingxiu Dong , Zhifang Sui

In this work, we propose a novel crowd counting network that progressively generates crowd density maps via residual error estimation. The proposed method uses VGG16 as the backbone network and employs density map generated by the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd counting in still images is a challenging problem in practice due to huge crowd-density variations, large perspective changes, severe occlusion, and variable lighting conditions. The state-of-the-art patch rescaling module (PRM) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Usman Sajid , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

In recent years, crowdsourcing, aka human aided computation has emerged as an effective platform for solving problems that are considered complex for machines alone. Using human is time-consuming and costly due to monetary compensations.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Arya Mazumdar , Barna Saha

In today's data-sensitive landscape, distributed learning emerges as a vital tool, not only fortifying privacy measures but also streamlining computational operations. This becomes especially crucial within fully decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Durgesh Kalwar , Mayank Baranwal , Harshad Khadilkar

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence. While recent approaches achieve some degree of CL in deep neural networks, they either (1) grow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Blake Camp , Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu , Rolando Estrada

Most existing crowd counting systems rely on the availability of the object location annotation which can be expensive to obtain. To reduce the annotation cost, one attractive solution is to leverage a large number of unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yan Liu , Lingqiao Liu , Peng Wang , Pingping Zhang , Yinjie Lei

We introduce a detection framework for dense crowd counting and eliminate the need for the prevalent density regression paradigm. Typical counting models predict crowd density for an image as opposed to detecting every person. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Deepak Babu Sam , Skand Vishwanath Peri , Mukuntha Narayanan Sundararaman , Amogh Kamath , R. Venkatesh Babu

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

Ranking is a central task in machine learning and information retrieval. In this task, it is especially important to present the user with a slate of items that is appealing as a whole. This in turn requires taking into account interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Irwan Bello , Sayali Kulkarni , Sagar Jain , Craig Boutilier , Ed Chi , Elad Eban , Xiyang Luo , Alan Mackey , Ofer Meshi

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

Determining the number of clusters is a central challenge in unsupervised learning, where ground-truth labels are unavailable. The Silhouette coefficient is a widely used internal validation metric for this task, yet its standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aggelos Semoglou , Aristidis Likas , John Pavlopoulos

Learning representations of well-trained neural network models holds the promise to provide an understanding of the inner workings of those models. However, previous work has either faced limitations when processing larger networks or was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Konstantin Schürholt , Michael W. Mahoney , Damian Borth

Most existing crowd counting methods require object location-level annotation, i.e., placing a dot at the center of an object. While being simpler than the bounding-box or pixel-level annotation, obtaining this annotation is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yinjie Lei , Yan Liu , Pingping Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

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

Automated counting of people in crowd images is a challenging task. The major difficulty stems from the large diversity in the way people appear in crowds. In fact, features available for crowd discrimination largely depend on the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Deepak Babu Sam , Neeraj N Sajjan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Dense crowd counting aims to predict thousands of human instances from an image, by calculating integrals of a density map over image pixels. Existing approaches mainly suffer from the extreme density variances. Such density pattern shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Chenfeng Xu , Kai Qiu , Jianlong Fu , Song Bai , Yongchao Xu , Xiang Bai

In this work, we tackle the problem of crowd counting in images. We present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based density estimation approach to solve this problem. Predicting a high resolution density map in one go is a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Viresh Ranjan , Hieu Le , Minh Hoai

This paper proposes a crowd counting method. Crowd counting is difficult because of large appearance changes of a target which caused by density and scale changes. Conventional crowd counting methods generally utilize one predictor (e,g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Shohei Kumagai , Kazuhiro Hotta , Takio Kurita