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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

The problem of counting crowds in varying density scenes or in different density regions of the same scene, named as pan-density crowd counting, is highly challenging. Previous methods are designed for single density scenes or do not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yukun Tian , Yiming Lei , Junping Zhang , James Z. Wang

Crowd counting is a task worth exploring in modern society because of its wide applications such as public safety and video monitoring. Many CNN-based approaches have been proposed to improve the accuracy of estimation, but there are some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Bo Wei , Mulin Chen , Qi Wang , Xuelong Li

In the context of crowd counting, most of the works have focused on improving the accuracy without regard to the performance leading to algorithms that are not suitable for embedded applications. In this paper, we propose a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Javier Antonio Gonzalez-Trejo , Diego Alberto Mercado-Ravell

We develop a Synthetic Fusion Pyramid Network (SPF-Net) with a scale-aware loss function design for accurate crowd counting. Existing crowd-counting methods assume that the training annotation points were accurate and thus ignore the fact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Yu-Chee Tseng , Ming-Ching Chang , Bor-Shiun Wang

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

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

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

We propose an attention-injective deformable convolutional network called ADCrowdNet for crowd understanding that can address the accuracy degradation problem of highly congested noisy scenes. ADCrowdNet contains two concatenated networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Ning Liu , Yongchao Long , Changqing Zou , Qun Niu , Li Pan , Hefeng Wu

Most existing crowd counting methods require object location-level annotation, i.e., placing a dot at the center of an object. While being simpler than the bounding-box or pixel-level annotation, obtaining this annotation is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yinjie Lei , Yan Liu , Pingping Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Guangshuai Gao , Junyu Gao , Qingjie Liu , Qi Wang , Yunhong Wang

Crowd counting is to estimate the number of objects (e.g., people or vehicles) in an image of unconstrained congested scenes. Designing a general crowd counting algorithm applicable to a wide range of crowd images is challenging, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Haoyue Bai , Song Wen , S. -H. Gary Chan

As a fundamental computer vision task, crowd counting plays an important role in public safety. Currently, deep learning based head detection is a promising method for crowd counting. However, the highly concerned object detection networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xiaopin Zhong , Guankun Wang , Weixiang Liu , Zongze Wu , Yuanlong Deng

Perspective distortions and crowd variations make crowd counting a challenging task in computer vision. To tackle it, many previous works have used multi-scale architecture in deep neural networks (DNNs). Multi-scale branches can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Crowd localization is a new computer vision task, evolved from crowd counting. Different from the latter, it provides more precise location information for each instance, not just counting numbers for the whole crowd scene, which brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Junyu Gao , Maoguo Gong , Xuelong Li

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

Crowd counting, for estimating the number of people in a crowd using vision-based computer techniques, has attracted much interest in the research community. Although many attempts have been reported, real-world problems, such as huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Saeed Amirgholipour Kasmani , Xiangjian He , Wenjing Jia , Dadong Wang , Michelle Zeibots

Crowd counting has gained significant popularity due to its practical applications. However, mainstream counting methods ignore precise individual localization and suffer from annotation noise because of counting from estimating density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Hao-Yuan Ma , Li Zhang , Xiang-Yi Wei

Accurate crowd detection (CD) is critical for public safety and historical pattern analysis, yet existing methods relying on ground and aerial imagery suffer from limited spatio-temporal coverage. The development of very-fine-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Tong Xiao , Qunming Wang , Ping Lu , Tenghai Huang , Xiaohua Tong , Peter M. Atkinson