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In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting and localization network named SCALNet. Unlike most existing works that separate the counting and localization tasks, we consider those tasks as a pixel-wise dense prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yi Wang , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

To learn a reliable people counter from crowd images, head center annotations are normally required. Annotating head centers is however a laborious and tedious process in dense crowds. In this paper, we present an active learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Zhen Zhao , Miaojing Shi , Xiaoxiao Zhao , Li Li

Crowd counting has recently attracted increasing interest in computer vision but remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a trellis encoder-decoder network (TEDnet) for crowd counting, which focuses on generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xiaolong Jiang , Zehao Xiao , Baochang Zhang , Xiantong Zhen , Xianbin Cao , David Doermann , Ling Shao

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. While effective, deep learning approaches are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which, in a crowd-counting context, can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

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

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

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

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the heavy occlusions, scales, and density variations. Existing methods handle these challenges effectively while ignoring low-resolution (LR) circumstances. The LR circumstances weaken the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jiahao Xie , Wei Xu , Dingkang Liang , Zhanyu Ma , Kongming Liang , Weidong Liu , Rui Wang , Ling Jin

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

In this paper, we explore a strong baseline for crowd counting and an unsupervised people localization algorithm based on estimated density maps. Firstly, existing methods achieve state-of-the-art performance based on different backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Liangzi Rong , Chunping Li

We consider the problem of few-shot scene adaptive crowd counting. Given a target camera scene, our goal is to adapt a model to this specific scene with only a few labeled images of that scene. The solution to this problem has potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Mahesh Kumar Krishna Reddy , Mohammad Hossain , Mrigank Rochan , Yang Wang

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

We propose a novel crowd counting approach that leverages abundantly available unlabeled crowd imagery in a learning-to-rank framework. To induce a ranking of cropped images , we use the observation that any sub-image of a crowded scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Since COVID-19, crowd-counting tasks have gained wide applications. While supervised methods are reliable, annotation is more challenging in high-density scenes due to small head sizes and severe occlusion, whereas it's simpler in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guoliang Xu , Jianqin Yin , Ren Zhang , Yonghao Dang , Feng Zhou , Bo Yu

In this paper, we propose a novel self-training approach named Crowd-SDNet that enables a typical object detector trained only with point-level annotations (i.e., objects are labeled with points) to estimate both the center points and sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yi Wang , Junhui Hou , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

State-of-the-art crowd counting models follow an encoder-decoder approach. Images are first processed by the encoder to extract features. Then, to account for perspective distortion, the highest-level feature map is fed to extra components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yiming Ma , Victor Sanchez , Tanaya Guha

Density estimation is one of the most widely used methods for crowd counting in which a deep learning model learns from head-annotated crowd images to estimate crowd density in unseen images. Typically, the learning performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Crowd counting is a task of estimating the number of the crowd through images, which is extremely valuable in the fields of intelligent security, urban planning, public safety management, and so on. However, the existing counting methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yubin Wen , Siyu Yang , Lichen Ning , Yuandong Liu , Junyu Gao

Crowd counting is an important yet challenging task due to the large scale and density variation. Recent investigations have shown that distilling rich relations among multi-scale features and exploiting useful information from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Xin Li , Dong Nie , Zhicheng Jiao , Shangchen Zhou , Hong Cheng

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