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Crowd scenes captured by cameras at different locations vary greatly, and existing crowd models have limited generalization for unseen surveillance scenes. To improve the generalization of the model, we regard different surveillance scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiwei Chen , Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Jing Zhang , Dingyi Li , Jing-Jia Luo

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

In this paper, the dual-optical attention fusion crowd head point counting model (TAPNet) is proposed to address the problem of the difficulty of accurate counting in complex scenes such as crowd dense occlusion and low light in crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fei Zhou , Yi Li , Mingqing Zhu

Object counting and localization are key steps for quantitative analysis in large-scale microscopy applications. This procedure becomes challenging when target objects are overlapping, are densely clustered, and/or present fuzzy boundaries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shijie Li , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

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

Localizing individuals in crowds is more in accordance with the practical demands of subsequent high-level crowd analysis tasks than simply counting. However, existing localization based methods relying on intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qingyu Song , Changan Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Yang Wu

Recent works on crowd counting mainly leverage CNNs to count by regressing density maps, and have achieved great progress. In the density map, each person is represented by a Gaussian blob, and the final count is obtained from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Chenfeng Xu , Dingkang Liang , Yongchao Xu , Song Bai , Wei Zhan , Xiang Bai , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Crowd counting is critical for numerous video surveillance scenarios. One of the main issues in this task is how to handle the dramatic scale variations of pedestrians caused by the perspective effect. To address this issue, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Zhaoyi Yan , Ruimao Zhang , Hongzhi Zhang , Qingfu Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

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 density estimation is a well-known computer vision task aimed at estimating the density distribution of people in an image. The main challenge in this domain is the reliance on fine-grained location-level annotations, (i.e. points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mattia Litrico , Feng Chen , Michael Pound , Sotirios A Tsaftaris , Sebastiano Battiato , Mario Valerio Giuffrida

A crowd density forecasting task aims to predict how the crowd density map will change in the future from observed past crowd density maps. However, the past crowd density maps are often incomplete due to the miss-detection of pedestrians,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Ryo Fujii , Ryo Hachiuma , Hideo Saito

Stop location detection, within human mobility studies, has an impacts in multiple fields including urban planning, transport network design, epidemiological modeling, and socio-economic segregation analysis. However, it remains a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Margherita Bertè , Rashid Ibrahimli , Lars Koopmans , Pablo Valgañón , Nicola Zomer , Davide Colombi

Thanks to the diffusion of the Internet of Things, nowadays it is possible to sense human mobility almost in real time using unconventional methods (e.g., number of bikes in a bike station). Due to the diffusion of such technologies, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Marco Cardia , Massimiliano Luca , Luca Pappalardo

Forecasting human activities observed in videos is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, which leads to various real-world applications such as mobile robots, autonomous driving, and assistive systems. In this work, we present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Hiroaki Minoura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Accurate people localisation using drones is crucial for effective crowd management, not only during massive events and public gatherings but also for monitoring daily urban crowd flow. Traditional methods for tiny object localisation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bartosz Ptak , Marek Kraft

Modern crowd counting methods usually employ deep neural networks (DNN) to estimate crowd counts via density regression. Despite their significant improvements, the regression-based methods are incapable of providing the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Yuting Liu , Miaojing Shi , Qijun Zhao , Xiaofang Wang

Precise knowledge about the size of a crowd, its density and flow can provide valuable information for safety and security applications, event planning, architectural design and to analyze consumer behavior. Creating a powerful machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Mahdi Maktabdar Oghaz , Anish R Khadka , Vasileios Argyriou , Paolo Remagnino

Crowd counting from a single image is a challenging task due to high appearance similarity, perspective changes and severe congestion. Many methods only focus on the local appearance features and they cannot handle the aforementioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Junyu Gao , Qi Wang , Xuelong Li

Crowd counting problem that counts the number of people in an image has been extensively studied in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a new variant of crowd counting problem, namely "Categorized Crowd Counting", that counts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Syed Md. Mukit Rashid , Mohammed Eunus Ali

Crowd localization is to predict each instance head position in crowd scenarios. Since the distance of instances being to the camera are variant, there exists tremendous gaps among scales of instances within an image, which is called the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Juncheng Wang , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang