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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

We present a pedestrian tracking algorithm, DensePeds, that tracks individuals in highly dense crowds (greater than 2 pedestrians per square meter). Our approach is designed for videos captured from front-facing or elevated cameras. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Rohan Chandra , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

Navigating through dense human crowds remains a significant challenge for mobile robots. A key issue is the freezing robot problem, where the robot struggles to find safe motions and becomes stuck within the crowd. To address this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yufei Zhu , Shih-Min Yang , Martin Magnusson , Allan Wang

3D reconstruction of dynamic crowds in large scenes has become increasingly important for applications such as city surveillance and crowd analysis. However, current works attempt to reconstruct 3D crowds from a static image, causing a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hao Wen , Hongbo Kang , Jian Ma , Jing Huang , Yuanwang Yang , Haozhe Lin , Yu-Kun Lai , Kun Li

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

It is important to monitor and analyze crowd events for the sake of city safety. In an EDOF (extended depth of field) image with a crowded scene, the distribution of people is highly imbalanced. People far away from the camera look much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mingliang Xu , Zhaoyang Ge , Xiaoheng Jiang , Gaoge Cui , Pei Lv , Bing Zhou , Changsheng Xu

Crowd density level estimation is an essential aspect of crowd safety since it helps to identify areas of probable overcrowding and required conditions. Nowadays, AI systems can help in various sectors. Here for safety purposes or many for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mahira Arefin , Md. Anwar Hussen Wadud , Anichur Rahman

This paper presents two novel approaches for people counting in crowded and open environments that combine the information gathered by multiple views. Multiple camera are used to expand the field of view as well as to mitigate the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Fabio Dittrich , Luiz E. S. de Oliveira , Alceu S. Britto , Alessandro L. Koerich

The growing demand for intelligent environments unleashes an extraordinary cycle of privacy-aware applications that makes individuals' life more comfortable and safe. Examples of these applications include pedestrian tracking systems in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Masakazu Ohno , Riki Ukyo , Tatsuya Amano , Hamada Rizk , Hirozumi Yamaguchi

The automatic detection of pedestrian heads in crowded environments is essential for crowd analysis and management tasks, particularly in high-risk settings such as railway platforms and event entrances. These environments, characterized by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mohamad Abubaker , Zubayda Alsadder , Hamed Abdelhaq , Maik Boltes , Ahmed Alia

Detecting pedestrians is a crucial task in autonomous driving systems to ensure the safety of drivers and pedestrians. The technologies involved in these algorithms must be precise and reliable, regardless of environment conditions. Relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Òscar Lorente , Josep R. Casas , Santiago Royo , Ivan Caminal

Drone-based crowd tracking faces difficulties in accurately identifying and monitoring objects from an aerial perspective, largely due to their small size and close proximity to each other, which complicates both localization and tracking.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yi Lei , Huilin Zhu , Jingling Yuan , Guangli Xiang , Xian Zhong , Shengfeng He

To identify dense and small-size pedestrians in surveillance systems, high-resolution cameras are widely deployed, where high-resolution images are captured and delivered to off-the-shelf pedestrian detection models. However, given the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Hao Wang , Hao Bao , Liekang Zeng , Ke Luo , Xu Chen

Pedestrian detection is a critical task in autonomous driving, aimed at enhancing safety and reducing risks on the road. Over recent years, significant advancements have been made in improving detection performance. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Melo Castillo Angie Nataly , Martin Serrano Sergio , Salinas Carlota , Sotelo Miguel Angel

People detection methods are highly sensitive to the perpetual occlusions among the targets. As multi-camera set-ups become more frequently encountered, joint exploitation of the across views information would allow for improved detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Tatjana Chavdarova , Pierre Baqué , Stéphane Bouquet , Andrii Maksai , Cijo Jose , Louis Lettry , Pascal Fua , Luc Van Gool , François Fleuret

Tracking in gigapixel scenarios holds numerous potential applications in video surveillance and pedestrian analysis. Existing algorithms attempt to perform tracking in crowded scenes by utilizing multiple cameras or group relationships.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yunqi Zhao , Yuchen Guo , Zheng Cao , Kai Ni , Ruqi Huang , Lu Fang

Recent advancements in autonomous driving perception have revealed exceptional capabilities within structured environments dominated by vehicular traffic. However, current perception models exhibit significant limitations in semi-structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yueting Liu , Hanshi Wang , Zhengjun Zha , Weiming Hu , Jin Gao

In Internet of Things (IoT) driven smart-world systems, real-time crowd-sourced databases from multiple distributed servers can be aggregated to extract dynamic statistics from a larger population, thus providing more reliable knowledge for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuebin Ren , Chia-Mu Yu , Wei Yu , Xinyu Yang , Jun Zhao , Shusen Yang

We present a novel procedural framework to generate an arbitrary number of labeled crowd videos (LCrowdV). The resulting crowd video datasets are used to design accurate algorithms or training models for crowded scene understanding. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ernest Cheung , Tsan Kwong Wong , Aniket Bera , Xiaogang Wang , Dinesh Manocha

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