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Crowd counting models in highly congested areas confront two main challenges: weak localization ability and difficulty in differentiating between foreground and background, leading to inaccurate estimations. The reason is that objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuehai Chen , Qingzhong Wang , Jing Yang , Badong Chen , Haoyi Xiong , Shaoyi Du

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

This paper proposes a novel approach for crowd counting in low to high density scenarios in static images. Current approaches cannot handle huge crowd diversity well and thus perform poorly in extreme cases, where the crowd density in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Usman Sajid , Hasan Sajid , Hongcheng Wang , Guanghui Wang

An important aspect of crowd monitoring is knowing how many people we are dealing with. Sometimes, knowing the size of a crowd in a single location and at a specific moment is enough. Matters become problematic when counting the same people…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Fatemeh Marzani , Thijs van Ede , Geert Heijenk , Maarten van Steen

Automatic estimation of the number of people in unconstrained crowded scenes is a challenging task and one major difficulty stems from the huge scale variation of people. In this paper, we propose a novel Deep Structured Scale Integration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Lingbo Liu , Zhilin Qiu , Guanbin Li , Shufan Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Liang Lin

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

Our research is focused on two main applications of crowd scene analysis crowd counting and anomaly detection In recent years a large number of researches have been presented in the domain of crowd counting We addressed two main challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Muhammad Junaid Asif

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

Single image crowd counting is a challenging computer vision problem with wide applications in public safety, city planning, traffic management, etc. With the recent development of deep learning techniques, crowd counting has aroused much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Haoyue Bai , Jiageng Mao , S. -H. Gary Chan

In the field of crowd counting research, many recent deep learning based methods have demonstrated robust capabilities for accurately estimating crowd sizes. However, the enhancement in their performance often arises from an increase in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lei Chen , Xinghang Gao , Fei Chao , Xiang Chang , Chih Min Lin , Xingen Gao , Shaopeng Lin , Hongyi Zhang , Juqiang Lin

Automatic analysis of highly crowded people has attracted extensive attention from computer vision research. Previous approaches for crowd counting have already achieved promising performance across various benchmarks. However, to deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Xiaowen Shi , Xin Li , Caili Wu , Shuchen Kong , Jing Yang , Liang He

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

In this paper, we focus on the crowd localization task, a crucial topic of crowd analysis. Most regression-based methods utilize convolution neural networks (CNN) to regress a density map, which can not accurately locate the instance in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Dingkang Liang , Wei Xu , Yingying Zhu , Yu Zhou

The task of crowd counting is to automatically estimate the pedestrian number in crowd images. To cope with the scale and perspective changes that commonly exist in crowd images, state-of-the-art approaches employ multi-column CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Lu Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Qiaobo Chen

Crowd image is arguably one of the most laborious data to annotate. In this paper, we devote to reduce the massive demand of densely labeled crowd data, and propose a novel weakly-supervised setting, in which we leverage the binary ranking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zheng Xiong , Liangyu Chai , Wenxi Liu , Yongtuo Liu , Sucheng Ren , Shengfeng He

Compared with single image based crowd counting, video provides the spatial-temporal information of the crowd that would help improve the robustness of crowd counting. But translation, rotation and scaling of people lead to the change of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yanyan Fang , Biyun Zhan , Wandi Cai , Shenghua Gao , Bo Hu

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

The mainstream crowd counting methods regress density map and integrate it to obtain counting results. Since the density representation to one head accords to its adjacent distribution, it embeds the same category objects with variant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Wang , Juncheng Wang , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

Crowd counting problem aims to count the number of objects within an image or a frame in the videos and is usually solved by estimating the density map generated from the object location annotations. The values in the density map, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shengqin Jiang , Xiaobo Lu , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu

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