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In this paper, we propose a novel self-training approach named Crowd-SDNet that enables a typical object detector trained only with point-level annotations (i.e., objects are labeled with points) to estimate both the center points and sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yi Wang , Junhui Hou , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

Video Individual Counting (VIC) has received increasing attention for its importance in intelligent video surveillance. Existing works are limited in two aspects, i.e., dataset and method. Previous datasets are captured with fixed or rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yaowu Fan , Jia Wan , Tao Han , Antoni B. Chan , Andy J. Ma

Currently, the safety of people has become a very important problem in different places including subway station, universities, colleges, airport, shopping mall and square, city squares. Therefore, considering intelligence event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Constantinou Miti , Demetriou Zatte , Siraj Sajid Gondal

In this paper we propose ResnetCrowd, a deep residual architecture for simultaneous crowd counting, violent behaviour detection and crowd density level classification. To train and evaluate the proposed multi-objective technique, a new 100…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Mark Marsden , Kevin McGuinness , Suzanne Little , Noel E. O'Connor

Full body trackers are utilized for surveillance and security purposes, such as person-tracking robots. In the Middle East, uniform crowd environments are the norm which challenges state-of-the-art trackers. Despite tremendous improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhibo Zhang , Omar Alremeithi , Maryam Almheiri , Marwa Albeshr , Xiaoxiong Zhang , Sajid Javed , Naoufel Werghi

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the issues such as scale variation and perspective variation in real crowd scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel Cascaded Residual Density Network (CRDNet) in a coarse-to-fine approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kun Zhao , Luchuan Song , Bin Liu , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Crowd counting has recently attracted increasing interest in computer vision but remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a trellis encoder-decoder network (TEDnet) for crowd counting, which focuses on generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xiaolong Jiang , Zehao Xiao , Baochang Zhang , Xiantong Zhen , Xianbin Cao , David Doermann , Ling Shao

Pedestrian detection in crowd scenes poses a challenging problem due to the heuristic defined mapping from anchors to pedestrians and the conflict between NMS and highly overlapped pedestrians. The recently proposed end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Matthieu Lin , Chuming Li , Xingyuan Bu , Ming Sun , Chen Lin , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang , Zhidong Deng

Counting and tracking dense crowds in large-scale scenes is a highly practical yet challenging problem. Existing methods mostly rely on fixed-camera datasets with limited scene coverage, making them inadequate for crowd analysis in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yaowu Fan , Jia Wan , Tao Han , Andy J. Ma , Wanli Ouyang , Antoni B. Chan

Current crowd counting algorithms are only concerned about the number of people in an image, which lacks low-level fine-grained information of the crowd. For many practical applications, the total number of people in an image is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Jia Wan , Nikil Senthil Kumar , Antoni B. Chan

Multiple-object tracking and behavior analysis have been the essential parts of surveillance video analysis for public security and urban management. With billions of surveillance video captured all over the world, multiple-object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Guojun Yin , Bin Liu , Huihui Zhu , Tao Gong , Nenghai Yu

Most current multi-object trackers focus on short-term tracking, and are based on deep and complex systems that do not operate in real-time, often making them impractical for video-surveillance. In this paper, we present a long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Germán Barquero , Carles Fernández , Isabelle Hupont

Detecting anomalies in crowded scenes is challenging due to severe inter-person occlusions and highly dynamic, context-dependent motion patterns. Existing approaches often struggle to adapt to varying crowd densities and lack interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Fatima AlGhamdi , Omar Alharbi , Abdullah Aldwyish , Raied Aljadaany , Muhammad Kamran J Khan , Huda Alamri

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

Pedestrian tracking has long been considered an important problem, especially in security applications. Previously,many approaches have been proposed with various types of sensors. One popular method is Pedestrian Dead Reckoning(PDR) [1]…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Mahdi Elhousni , Xinming Huang

Studies on microscopic pedestrian requires large amounts of trajectory data from real-world pedestrian crowds. Such data collection, if done manually, needs tremendous effort and is very time consuming. Though many studies have asserted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Saman Saadat , Kardi Teknomo

Dense object counting or crowd counting has come a long way thanks to the recent development in the vision community. However, indiscernible object counting, which aims to count the number of targets that are blended with respect to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cheng-Yen Yang , Hsiang-Wei Huang , Zhongyu Jiang , Hao Wang , Farron Wallace , Jenq-Neng Hwang

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

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 are interested in developing an automated system for detection of organized movements in human crowds. Computer vision algorithms can extract information from videos of crowded scenes and automatically detect and track groups of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Alexandre Matov