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Since the past few decades, human trajectory forecasting has been a field of active research owing to its numerous real-world applications: evacuation situation analysis, deployment of intelligent transport systems, traffic operations, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Parth Kothari , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Crowd-sourcing is a cheap and popular means of creating training and evaluation datasets for machine learning, however it poses the problem of `truth inference', as individual workers cannot be wholly trusted to provide reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuan Li , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

We present a method of estimating the number of people in high density crowds from still images. The method estimates counts by fusing information from multiple sources. Most of the existing work on crowd counting deals with very small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Ankan Bansal , K. S. Venkatesh

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

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

We address the problem of image-based crowd counting. In particular, we propose a new problem called unlabeled scene-adaptive crowd counting. Given a new target scene, we would like to have a crowd counting model specifically adapted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Mahesh Kumar Krishna Reddy , Mrigank Rochan , Yiwei Lu , Yang Wang

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

The mainstream crowd counting methods regress density map and integrate it to obtain counting results. Since the density representation to one head accords to its adjacent distribution, it embeds the same category objects with variant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Wang , Juncheng Wang , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

Crowdsourcing is an emerging computing paradigm that takes advantage of the intelligence of a crowd to solve complex problems effectively. Besides collecting and processing data, it is also a great demand for the crowd to conduct…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Feng-Feng Wei , Wei-Neng Chen , Xiao-Qi Guo , Bowen Zhao , Sang-Woon Jeon , Jun Zhang

Crowd density estimation is a well-known computer vision task aimed at estimating the density distribution of people in an image. The main challenge in this domain is the reliance on fine-grained location-level annotations, (i.e. points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mattia Litrico , Feng Chen , Michael Pound , Sotirios A Tsaftaris , Sebastiano Battiato , Mario Valerio Giuffrida

In this paper, we propose a new query-based detection framework for crowd detection. Previous query-based detectors suffer from two drawbacks: first, multiple predictions will be inferred for a single object, typically in crowded scenes;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Anlin Zheng , Yuang Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Jian Sun

Crowd counting is usually handled in a density map regression fashion, which is supervised via a L2 loss between the predicted density map and ground truth. To effectively regulate models, various improved L2 loss functions have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ziheng Yan , Yuankai Qi , Guorong Li , Xinyan Liu , Weigang Zhang , Qingming Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Due to domain shift, a large performance drop is usually observed when a trained crowd counting model is deployed in the wild. While existing domain-adaptive crowd counting methods achieve promising results, they typically regard each crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Yongtuo Liu , Dan Xu , Sucheng Ren , Hanjie Wu , Hongmin Cai , Shengfeng He

Crowd counting is an important vision task, which faces challenges on continuous scale variation within a given scene and huge density shift both within and across images. These challenges are typically addressed using multi-column…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Mingjie Wang , Hao Cai , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong

Crowdsensing is a promising sensing paradigm for smart city applications (e.g., traffic and environment monitoring) with the prevalence of smart mobile devices and advanced network infrastructure. Meanwhile, as tasks are performed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Leye Wang , Han Yu , Xiao Han

In this work we present the modular Crowd Simulation Evaluation through Composition framework (CSEC) which provides a quantitative comparison between different pedestrian and crowd simulation approaches. Evaluation is made based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Rob Dupre , Vasileios Argyriou

Crowd counting presents enormous challenges in the form of large variation in scales within images and across the dataset. These issues are further exacerbated in highly congested scenes. Approaches based on straightforward fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Vishwanath A Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd counting typically relies on labor-intensive point-level annotations and computationally intensive backbones, restricting its scalability and deployment in resource-constrained environments. To address these challenges, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qiang Guo , Rubo Zhang , Bingbing Zhang , Junjie Liu , Jianqing Liu

Crowd sensing is a new paradigm that leverages pervasive sensor-equipped mobile devices to provide sensing services like forensic analysis, documenting public spaces, and collaboratively constructing statistical models. Extensive user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Jiajun Sun

Most recent methods used for crowd counting are based on the convolutional neural network (CNN), which has a strong ability to extract local features. But CNN inherently fails in modeling the global context due to the limited receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Ye Tian , Xiangxiang Chu , Hongpeng Wang