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Virtually all aspects of modern life depend on space technology. Thanks to the great advancement of computer vision in general and deep learning-based techniques in particular, over the decades, the world witnessed the growing use of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Dung Anh Hoang , Bo Chen , Tat-Jun Chin

One of the most difficult jobs in remote sensing is dealing with traffic bottlenecks at airports. This fact has been confirmed by several studies attempting to resolve this issue. Among a wide range of approaches employed the most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 WT Al-Shaibani , Mustafa Helvaci , Ibraheem Shayea , Azizul Azizan

Nearly all existing counting methods are designed for a specific object class. Our work, however, aims to create a counting model able to count any class of object. To achieve this goal, we formulate counting as a matching problem, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Erika Lu , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Object counting methods typically rely on manually annotated datasets. The cost of creating such datasets has restricted the versatility of these networks to count objects from specific classes (such as humans or penguins), and counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Adriano D'Alessandro , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Ghassan Hamarneh

Density map estimation enables accurate object counting in heavily occluded, and densely packed scenes where detection-based counting fails. In multi-class density estimation, class awareness can be introduced by modelling classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Villanelle O'Reilly , Jonathan Cox , Georgios Leontidis , Marc Hanheide , Petra Bosilj , James M. Brown

The number of objects is considered an important factor in a variety of tasks in the agricultural domain. Automated counting can improve farmers decisions regarding yield estimation, stress detection, disease prevention, and more. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Guy Farjon , Liu Huijun , Yael Edan

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

We present a new dataset with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in object recognition by placing the question of object recognition in the context of the broader question of scene understanding. This is achieved by gathering images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Tsung-Yi Lin , Michael Maire , Serge Belongie , Lubomir Bourdev , Ross Girshick , James Hays , Pietro Perona , Deva Ramanan , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Piotr Dollár

We describe a system that builds a high dynamic-range and wide-angle image of the night sky by combining a large set of input images. The method makes use of pixel-rank information in the individual input images to improve a "consensus"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Dustin Lang , David W. Hogg , Bernhard Scholkopf

Training a modern deep neural network on massive labeled samples is the main paradigm in solving the scene classification problem for remote sensing, but learning from only a few data points remains a challenge. Existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Haifeng Li , Zhenqi Cui , Zhiqing Zhu , Li Chen , Jiawei Zhu , Haozhe Huang , Chao Tao

3D object localisation based on a sequence of camera measurements is essential for safety-critical surveillance tasks, such as drone-based wildfire monitoring. Localisation of objects detected with a camera can typically be solved with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Julius Pesonen , Arno Solin , Eija Honkavaara

Crowd counting aims to predict the number of people and generate the density map in the image. There are many challenges, including varying head scales, the diversity of crowd distribution across images and cluttered backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xin Wang , Yang Zhao , Tangwen Yang , Qiuqi Ruan

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. They typically use the same filters over the whole image or over large image patches. Only then do they estimate local scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Object counting is an important task in computer vision due to its growing demand in applications such as surveillance, traffic monitoring, and counting everyday objects. State-of-the-art methods use regression-based optimization where they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Issam H. Laradji , Negar Rostamzadeh , Pedro O. Pinheiro , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

Accurate counting of surgical instruments in Operating Rooms (OR) is a critical prerequisite for ensuring patient safety during surgery. Despite recent progress of large visual-language models and agentic AI, accurately counting such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Rishikesh Bhyri , Brian R Quaranto , Philip J Seger , Kaity Tung , Brendan Fox , Gene Yang , Steven D. Schwaitzberg , Junsong Yuan , Nan Xi , Peter C W Kim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are of crucial importance in search and rescue missions in maritime environments due to their flexible and fast operation capabilities. Modern computer vision algorithms are of great interest in aiding such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Leon Amadeus Varga , Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

This paper tackles two key challenges: detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects (a major hurdle in computer vision) and improving the quality of noisy images, especially those encountered in industrial environments. [1, 2]. Our focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickaël Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

Despite progress in perceptual tasks such as image classification, computers still perform poorly on cognitive tasks such as image description and question answering. Cognition is core to tasks that involve not just recognizing, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Ranjay Krishna , Yuke Zhu , Oliver Groth , Justin Johnson , Kenji Hata , Joshua Kravitz , Stephanie Chen , Yannis Kalantidis , Li-Jia Li , David A. Shamma , Michael S. Bernstein , Fei-Fei Li

Urban waste management remains a critical challenge for the development of smart cities. Despite the growing number of litter detection datasets, the problem of monitoring overflowing waste containers, particularly from images captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Diogo J. Paulo , João Martins , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

With the rapid development of deep learning, many deep learning-based approaches have made great achievements in object detection task. It is generally known that deep learning is a data-driven method. Data directly impact the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xian Sun , Peijin Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Feng Xu , Ruiping Wang , Wenhui Diao , Jin Chen , Jihao Li , Yingchao Feng , Tao Xu , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz , Cheng Wang , Kun Fu