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Recently, the research of wireless sensing has achieved more intelligent results, and the intelligent sensing of human location and activity can be realized by means of WiFi devices. However, most of the current human environment perception…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Shangqing Liu , Yanchao Zhao , Fanggang Xue , Bing Chen , Xiang Chen

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

Counting people in dense crowds is a demanding task even for humans. This is primarily due to the large variability in appearance of people. Often people are only seen as a bunch of blobs. Occlusions, pose variations and background clutter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Deepak Babu Sam , R. Venkatesh Babu

It is important to monitor and analyze crowd events for the sake of city safety. In an EDOF (extended depth of field) image with a crowded scene, the distribution of people is highly imbalanced. People far away from the camera look much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mingliang Xu , Zhaoyang Ge , Xiaoheng Jiang , Gaoge Cui , Pei Lv , Bing Zhou , Changsheng Xu

Automatic crowd counting using density estimation has gained significant attention in computer vision research. As a result, a large number of crowd counting and density estimation models using convolution neural networks (CNN) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Many density estimation techniques for 3D human motion prediction require a significant amount of inference time, often exceeding the duration of the predicted time horizon. To address the need for faster density estimation for 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Takahiro Maeda , Jinkun Cao , Norimichi Ukita , Kris Kitani

As the number of individuals in a crowd grows, enumeration-based techniques become increasingly infeasible and their estimates increasingly unreliable. We propose instead an estimation-based version of the problem: we label Rough Crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Shengqin Jiang , Linfei Li , Haokui Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Amin Beheshti , Jian Yang , Anton van den Hengel , Quan Z. Sheng , Yuankai Qi

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

The objective of this work is human pose estimation in videos, where multiple frames are available. We investigate a ConvNet architecture that is able to benefit from temporal context by combining information across the multiple frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Tomas Pfister , James Charles , Andrew Zisserman

In this paper, we explore a strong baseline for crowd counting and an unsupervised people localization algorithm based on estimated density maps. Firstly, existing methods achieve state-of-the-art performance based on different backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Liangzi Rong , Chunping Li

Navigation in dense crowds is a well-known open problem in robotics with many challenges in mapping, localization, and planning. Traditional solutions consider dense pedestrians as passive/active moving obstacles that are the cause of all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tingxiang Fan , Dawei Wang , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Anurag Ranjan , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

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

Crowd counting is a challenging yet critical task in computer vision with applications ranging from public safety to urban planning. Recent advances using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that estimate density maps have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Abhinav Sagar

We study video crowd counting, which is to estimate the number of objects (people in this paper) in all the frames of a video sequence. Previous work on crowd counting is mostly on still images. There has been little work on how to properly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Haoyue Bai , S. -H. Gary Chan

Crowd flow describes the elementary group behavior of crowds. Understanding the dynamics behind these movements can help to identify various abnormalities in crowds. However, developing a crowd model describing these flows is a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Shreetam Behera , Debi Prosad Dogra , Malay Kumar Bandyopadhyay , Partha Pratim Roy

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

In this paper, we tackle the problem of Crowd Counting, and present a crowd density estimation based approach for obtaining the crowd count. Most of the existing crowd counting approaches rely on local features for estimating the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Viresh Ranjan , Mubarak Shah , Minh Hoai Nguyen

Multi-view approaches to people-tracking have the potential to better handle occlusions than single-view ones in crowded scenes. They often rely on the tracking-by-detection paradigm, which involves detecting people first and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Martin Engilberge , Weizhe Liu , Pascal Fua

Crowd counting has recently attracted significant attention in the field of computer vision due to its wide applications to image understanding. Numerous methods have been proposed and achieved state-of-the-art performance for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zhi-Kai Huang , Wei-Ting Chen , Yuan-Chun Chiang , Sy-Yen Kuo , Ming-Hsuan Yang