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Crowd counting, i.e., estimating the number of people in a crowded area, has attracted much interest in the research community. Although many attempts have been reported, crowd counting remains an open real-world problem due to the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Saeed Amirgholipour , Xiangjian He , Wenjing Jia , Dadong Wang , Lei Liu

Crowd management is of paramount importance when it comes to preventing stampedes and saving lives, especially in a countries like China and India where the combined population is a third of the global population. Millions of people convene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Varun Kannadi Valloli , Kinal Mehta

Visual counting, a task that predicts the number of objects from an image/video, is an open-set problem by nature, i.e., the number of population can vary in $[0,+\infty)$ in theory. However, the collected images and labeled count values…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Haipeng Xiong , Hao Lu , Chengxin Liu , Liang Liu , Zhiguo Cao , Chunhua Shen

In this work, we tackle the problem of crowd counting in images. We present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based density estimation approach to solve this problem. Predicting a high resolution density map in one go is a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Viresh Ranjan , Hieu Le , Minh Hoai

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

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

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

To alleviate the heavy annotation burden for training a reliable crowd counting model and thus make the model more practicable and accurate by being able to benefit from more data, this paper presents a new semi-supervised method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yifei Qian , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhongliang Guo , Ognjen Arandjelović , Carl R. Donovan

In recent years, significant progress has been made on the research of crowd counting. However, as the challenging scale variations and complex scenes existed in crowds, neither traditional convolution networks nor recent Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xing Wei , Yuanrui Kang , Jihao Yang , Yunfeng Qiu , Dahu Shi , Wenming Tan , Yihong Gong

The existing crowd counting models require extensive training data, which is time-consuming to annotate. To tackle this issue, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting method by utilizing the Segment-Everything-Everywhere Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jia Wan , Qiangqiang Wu , Wei Lin , Antoni B. Chan

Research in neural networks in the field of computer vision has achieved remarkable accuracy for point estimation. However, the uncertainty in the estimation is rarely addressed. Uncertainty quantification accompanied by point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Min-hwan Oh , Peder A. Olsen , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy

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

Recently the crowd counting has received more and more attention. Especially the technology of high-density environment has become an important research content, and the relevant methods for the existence of extremely dense crowd are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mengxiao Tian , Hao Guo , Chengjiang Long

This paper proposes a space-time multi-scale attention network (STANet) to solve density map estimation, localization and tracking in dense crowds of video clips captured by drones with arbitrary crowd density, perspective, and flight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Qilong Wang , Liefeng Bo , Siwei Lyu

In the field of crowd counting, the current mainstream CNN-based regression methods simply extract the density information of pedestrians without finding the position of each person. This makes the output of the network often found to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yi Hou , Chengyang Li , Fan Yang , Cong Ma , Liping Zhu , Yuan Li , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie

Recently, density map regression-based methods have dominated in crowd counting owing to their excellent fitting ability on density distribution. However, further improvement tends to saturate mainly because of the confusing background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Chenliang Gu , Changan Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Tianliang Zhang

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

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

Video crowd localization is a crucial yet challenging task, which aims to estimate exact locations of human heads in the given crowded videos. To model spatial-temporal dependencies of human mobility, we propose a multi-focus Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Haopeng Li , Lingbo Liu , Kunlin Yang , Shinan Liu , Junyu Gao , Bin Zhao , Rui Zhang , Jun Hou

Accurately locating each head's position in the crowd scenes is a crucial task in the field of crowd analysis. However, traditional density-based methods only predict coarse prediction, and segmentation/detection-based methods cannot handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Junyu Gao , Tao Han , Qi Wang , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li