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Pedestrian detection is an initial step to perform outdoor scene analysis, which plays an essential role in many real-world applications. Although having enjoyed the merits of deep learning frameworks from the generic object detectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Jialiang Zhang , Lixiang Lin , Yang Li , Yun-chen Chen , Jianke Zhu , Yao Hu , Steven C. H. Hoi

Crowd counting aims to learn the crowd density distributions and estimate the number of objects (e.g. persons) in images. The perspective effect, which significantly influences the distribution of data points, plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xiaoshuang Chen , Yiru Zhao , Yu Qin , Fei Jiang , Mingyuan Tao , Xiansheng Hua , Hongtao Lu

Traditional crowd counting approaches usually use Gaussian assumption to generate pseudo density ground truth, which suffers from problems like inaccurate estimation of the Gaussian kernel sizes. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hui Lin , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Xing Wei , Yunfeng Qiu , Yaowei Wang , Yihong Gong

Crowd monitoring and analysis in mass events are highly important technologies to support the security of attending persons. Proposed methods based on terrestrial or airborne image/video data often fail in achieving sufficiently accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Roland Perko , Thomas Schnabel , Gerald Fritz , Alexander Almer , Lucas Paletta

In recent years, vision-based crowd analysis has been studied extensively due to its practical applications in real world. In this paper, we formulate a novel crowd analysis problem, in which we aim to predict the crowd distribution in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yuzhen Niu , Weifeng Shi , Wenxi Liu , Shengfeng He , Jia Pan , Antoni B. Chan

Supervised crowd counting relies heavily on costly manual labeling, which is difficult and expensive, especially in dense scenes. To alleviate the problem, we propose a novel unsupervised framework for crowd counting, named CrowdCLIP. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Dingkang Liang , Jiahao Xie , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Wei Xu , Xiang Bai

The estimation of crowd count in images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. Recently, the convolutional neural network (CNN) based approaches have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Xinghao Ding , Zhirui Lin , Fujin He , Yu Wang , Yue Huang

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

Modeling crowd behavior relies on accurate data of pedestrian movements at a high level of detail. Imaging sensors such as cameras provide a good basis for capturing such detailed pedestrian motion data. However, currently available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Stefan Seer , Norbert Brändle , Carlo Ratti

We propose a simple yet effective proposal-based object detector, aiming at detecting highly-overlapped instances in crowded scenes. The key of our approach is to let each proposal predict a set of correlated instances rather than a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Xuangeng Chu , Anlin Zheng , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun

The mainstream crowd counting methods usually utilize the convolution neural network (CNN) to regress a density map, requiring point-level annotations. However, annotating each person with a point is an expensive and laborious process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Dingkang Liang , Xiwu Chen , Wei Xu , Yu Zhou , Xiang Bai

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

Crowd counting remains challenging in variable-density scenes due to scale variations, occlusions, and the high computational cost of existing models. To address these issues, we propose RepSFNet (Reparameterized Single Fusion Network), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mas Nurul Achmadiah , Chi-Chia Sun , Wen-Kai Kuo , Jun-Wei Hsieh

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

In high population cities, the gatherings of large crowds in public places and public areas accelerate or jeopardize people safety and transportation, which is a key challenge to the researchers. Although much research has been carried out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Muhammad Siraj

The motivation of this paper originates from rethinking an essential characteristic of crowd counting: individuals (heads of humans) in the crowd counting task typically occupy a very small portion of the image. This characteristic has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianhang Pan , Xiuyi Jia

Automated crowd counting from images/videos has attracted more attention in recent years because of its wide application in smart cities. But modelling the dense crowd heads is challenging and most of the existing works become less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Haoran Duan , Shidong Wang , Yu Guan

The task of crowd counting is extremely challenging due to complicated difficulties, especially the huge variation in vision scale. Previous works tend to adopt a naive concatenation of multi-scale information to tackle it, while the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhikang Zou , Yifan Liu , Shuangjie Xu , Wei Wei , Shiping Wen , Pan Zhou

We propose a novel generative approach for 3D human pose estimation. 3D human pose estimation poses several key challenges due to the complex geometry of the human body, self-occluding joints, and the requirement for large-scale real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hyunsoo Lee , Daeum Jeon , Hyeokjae Oh

The growth of the number of people in the monitoring scene may increase the probability of security threat, which makes crowd counting more and more important. Most of the existing approaches estimate the number of pedestrians within one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Liqing Gao , Yanzhang Wang , Xin Ye , Jian Wang