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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field of computer vision for nearly a decade due to their strong ability to learn local features. However, due to their limited receptive field, CNNs fail to model the global context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Siddharth Singh Savner , Vivek Kanhangad

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

Crowd Counting is a fundamental topic, aiming to estimate the number of individuals in the crowded images or videos fed from surveillance cameras. Recent works focus on improving counting accuracy, while ignoring the certified robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Qiming Wu

Crowd counting is an important task in computer vision, which has many applications in video surveillance. Although the regression-based framework has achieved great improvements for crowd counting, how to improve the discriminative power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Biyun Sheng , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Jun Li , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

State-of-the-art multi-object tracking~(MOT) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, where object trajectories are obtained by associating per-frame outputs of object detectors. In crowded scenes, however, detectors often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Weihong Ren , Xinchao Wang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Antoni B. Chan

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

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. While effective, these data-driven approaches rely on large amount of data annotation to achieve good performance, which stops…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Weizhe Liu , Nikita Durasov , Pascal Fua

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

Accurate RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) crowd counting is crucial for public safety in challenging conditions. While recent Transformer-based methods excel at capturing global context, their inherent lack of spatial inductive bias causes attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuhong Feng , Hongtao Chen , Qi Zhang , Jie Chen , Zhaoxi He , Mingzhe Liu , Jianghai Liao

We propose a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) paradigm based deep neural network architecture, called MTCNet (Multi-Task Crowd Network) for crowd density and count estimation. Crowd count estimation is challenging due to the non-uniform scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Abhay Kumar , Nishant Jain , Suraj Tripathi , Chirag Singh , Kamal Krishna

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

Single image crowd counting is a challenging computer vision problem with wide applications in public safety, city planning, traffic management, etc. With the recent development of deep learning techniques, crowd counting has aroused much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Haoyue Bai , Jiageng Mao , S. -H. Gary Chan

Millimeter wave sensing provides people with the capability of sensing the surrounding crowds in a non-invasive and privacy-preserving manner, which holds huge application potential. However, detecting stationary crowds remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Boyan Li , Shengyi Ding , Deen Ma , Yixuan Wu , Hongjie Liao , Kaiyuan Hu

Our research is focused on two main applications of crowd scene analysis crowd counting and anomaly detection In recent years a large number of researches have been presented in the domain of crowd counting We addressed two main challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Muhammad Junaid Asif

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information across modalities to generate high-quality fused images, thereby enhancing the performance of high-level vision tasks. While global spatial modeling mechanisms show promising results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Guan Zheng , Xue Wang , Wenhua Qian , Peng Liu , Runzhuo Ma

Modern methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate people densities in individual images. As such, only very few take advantage of temporal consistency in video sequences, and those that do only impose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

This paper proposes a crowd counting method. Crowd counting is difficult because of large appearance changes of a target which caused by density and scale changes. Conventional crowd counting methods generally utilize one predictor (e,g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Shohei Kumagai , Kazuhiro Hotta , Takio Kurita

Currently, for crowd counting, the fully supervised methods via density map estimation are the mainstream research directions. However, such methods need location-level annotation of persons in an image, which is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fusen Wang , Kai Liu , Fei Long , Nong Sang , Xiaofeng Xia , Jun Sang

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

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