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While the performance of crowd counting via deep learning has been improved dramatically in the recent years, it remains an ingrained problem due to cluttered backgrounds and varying scales of people within an image. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Yunqi Miao , Zijia Lin , Guiguang Ding , Jungong Han

The task of crowd counting in varying density scenes is an extremely difficult challenge due to large scale variations. In this paper, we propose a novel dual path multi-scale fusion network architecture with attention mechanism named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Liang Zhu , Zhijian Zhao , Chao Lu , Yining Lin , Yao Peng , Tangren Yao

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the large variations in crowd distributions. Previous methods tend to tackle the whole image with a single fixed structure, which is unable to handle diverse complicated scenes with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhikang Zou , Yu Cheng , Xiaoye Qu , Shouling Ji , Xiaoxiao Guo , Pan Zhou

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

The aim of crowd counting is to estimate the number of people in images by leveraging the annotation of center positions for pedestrians' heads. Promising progresses have been made with the prevalence of deep Convolutional Neural Networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Xiu Li , Qi Dai , Xiao Wu , Alexander Hauptmann

Estimating count and density maps from crowd images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. In addition, techniques developed for crowd counting can be applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

We seek to improve crowd counting as we perceive limits of currently prevalent density map estimation approach on both prediction accuracy and time efficiency. We leverage multilevel pixelation of density map as it helps improve SNR of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhuojun Chen , Junhao Cheng , Yuchen Yuan , Dongping Liao , Yizhou Li , Jiancheng Lv

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

Gatherings of thousands to millions of people frequently occur for an enormous variety of events, and automated counting of these high-density crowds is useful for safety, management, and measuring significance of an event. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Greg Olmschenk , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

Counting people or objects with significantly varying scales and densities has attracted much interest from the research community and yet it remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a simple but an efficient and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Lei Liu , Jie Jiang , Wenjing Jia , Saeed Amirgholipour , Michelle Zeibots , Xiangjian He

The rapid development in visual crowd analysis shows a trend to count people by positioning or even detecting, rather than simply summing a density map. It also enlightens us back to the essence of the field, detection to count, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Qi wang , Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

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

The paper focuses on improving the recent plug-and-play patch rescaling module (PRM) based approaches for crowd counting. In order to make full use of the PRM potential and obtain more reliable and accurate results for challenging images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Usman Sajid , Guanghui Wang

Background noise and scale variation are common problems that have been long recognized in crowd counting. Humans glance at a crowd image and instantly know the approximate number of human and where they are through attention the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Dong Zhang , Kun Zhang , Badong Chen , Shaoyi Du

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 counting in still images is a challenging problem in practice due to huge crowd-density variations, large perspective changes, severe occlusion, and variable lighting conditions. The state-of-the-art patch rescaling module (PRM) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Usman Sajid , Wenchi Ma , Guanghui Wang

The crowd counting task aims at estimating the number of people located in an image or a frame from videos. Existing methods widely adopt density maps as the training targets to optimize the point-to-point loss. While in testing phase, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Xiyang Liu , Jie Yang , Wenrui Ding

Crowd counting is an important yet challenging task in computer vision due to serious occlusions, complex background and large scale variations, etc. Multi-column architecture is widely adopted to overcome these challenges, yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Junhao Cheng , Zhuojun Chen , XinYu Zhang , Yizhou Li , Xiaoyuan Jing

Crowd counting remains a challenging task because the presence of drastic scale variation, density inconsistency, and complex background can seriously degrade the counting accuracy. To battle the ingrained issue of accuracy degradation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Mingjie Wang , Hao Cai , Xianfeng Han , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong

Dense crowd counting aims to predict thousands of human instances from an image, by calculating integrals of a density map over image pixels. Existing approaches mainly suffer from the extreme density variances. Such density pattern shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Chenfeng Xu , Kai Qiu , Jianlong Fu , Song Bai , Yongchao Xu , Xiang Bai