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In real-world crowd counting applications, the crowd densities in an image vary greatly. When facing density variation, humans tend to locate and count the targets in low-density regions, and reason the number in high-density regions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Badong Chen , Shaoyi Du

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

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, 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

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

Recently, crowd counting is a hot topic in crowd analysis. Many CNN-based counting algorithms attain good performance. However, these methods only focus on the local appearance features of crowd scenes but ignore the large-range pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Junyu Gao , Qi Wang , Yuan Yuan

Crowd counting plays a vital role in public safety, traffic regulation, and smart city management. However, despite the impressive progress achieved by CNN- and Transformer-based models, their performance often deteriorates when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuehai Chen

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

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 the task of estimating people numbers in crowd images. Modern crowd counting methods employ deep neural networks to estimate crowd counts via crowd density regressions. A major challenge of this task lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Miaojing Shi , Zhaohui Yang , Chao Xu , Qijun Chen

Our work proposes a novel deep learning framework for estimating crowd density from static images of highly dense crowds. We use a combination of deep and shallow, fully convolutional networks to predict the density map for a given crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Lokesh Boominathan , Srinivas S S Kruthiventi , R. Venkatesh Babu

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

Aiming at the metro video surveillance system has not been able to effectively solve the metro crowd density estimation problem, a Metro Crowd density estimation Network (called MCNet) is proposed to automatically classify crowd density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Qiang Guo , Rubo Zhang , Di Zhao

Single image-based crowd counting has recently witnessed increased focus, but many leading methods are far from optimal, especially in highly congested scenes. In this paper, we present Hierarchical Attention-based Crowd Counting Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

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

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

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

Deep learning-based crowd counting methods have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, in complex crowd scenarios, existing models still face challenges when adapting to significant density distribution differences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yihong Wu , Jinqiao Wei , Xionghui Zhao , Yidi Li , Shaoyi Du , Bin Ren , Nicu Sebe

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of crowd counting in congested scenes. Specifically, we present Inverse Attention Guided Deep Crowd Counting Network (IA-DCCN) that efficiently infuses segmentation information through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

In crowd counting datasets, each person is annotated by a point, which is usually the center of the head. And the task is to estimate the total count in a crowd scene. Most of the state-of-the-art methods are based on density map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Zhiheng Ma , Xing Wei , Xiaopeng Hong , Yihong Gong