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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

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

We propose a novel crowd counting model that maps a given crowd scene to its density. Crowd analysis is compounded by myriad of factors like inter-occlusion between people due to extreme crowding, high similarity of appearance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Deepak Babu Sam , Shiv Surya , R. Venkatesh Babu

As the number of individuals in a crowd grows, enumeration-based techniques become increasingly infeasible and their estimates increasingly unreliable. We propose instead an estimation-based version of the problem: we label Rough Crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Shengqin Jiang , Linfei Li , Haokui Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Amin Beheshti , Jian Yang , Anton van den Hengel , Quan Z. Sheng , Yuankai Qi

Crowd counting aims to predict the number of people and generate the density map in the image. There are many challenges, including varying head scales, the diversity of crowd distribution across images and cluttered backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xin Wang , Yang Zhao , Tangwen Yang , Qiuqi Ruan

Crowd counting is an important problem in computer vision due to its wide range of applications in image understanding. Currently, this problem is typically addressed using deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhen Wang , Yuelei Li , Jia Wan , Nuno Vasconcelos

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

This paper focuses on semi-supervised crowd counting, where only a small portion of the training data are labeled. We formulate the pixel-wise density value to regress as a probability distribution, instead of a single deterministic value.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Hui Lin , Zhiheng Ma , Rongrong Ji , Yaowei Wang , Zhou Su , Xiaopeng Hong , Deyu Meng

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

Crowd counting is a critical task in computer vision, with several important applications. However, existing counting methods rely on labor-intensive density map annotations, necessitating the manual localization of each individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Adriano D'Alessandro , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Ghassan Hamarneh

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

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

Dense crowd counting aims to predict thousands of human instances from an image, by calculating integrals of a density map over image pixels. Existing approaches mainly suffer from the extreme density variances. Such density pattern shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Chenfeng Xu , Kai Qiu , Jianlong Fu , Song Bai , Yongchao Xu , Xiang Bai

Labeled crowd scene images are expensive and scarce. To significantly reduce the requirement of the labeled images, we propose ColorCount, a novel CNN-based approach by combining self-supervised transfer colorization learning and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Haoyue Bai , Song Wen , S. -H. Gary Chan

Existing state-of-the-art crowd counting algorithms rely excessively on location-level annotations, which are burdensome to acquire. When only count-level (weak) supervisory signals are available, it is arduous and error-prone to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mingjie Wang , Jun Zhou , Hao Cai , Minglun Gong

Most conventional crowd counting methods utilize a fully-supervised learning framework to establish a mapping between scene images and crowd density maps. They usually rely on a large quantity of costly and time-intensive pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiaqi Gao , Zhizhong Huang , Yiming Lei , Hongming Shan , James Z. Wang , Fei-Yue Wang , Junping Zhang

Crowd counting is to estimate the number of objects (e.g., people or vehicles) in an image of unconstrained congested scenes. Designing a general crowd counting algorithm applicable to a wide range of crowd images is challenging, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Haoyue Bai , Song Wen , S. -H. Gary Chan

Automatic analysis of highly crowded people has attracted extensive attention from computer vision research. Previous approaches for crowd counting have already achieved promising performance across various benchmarks. However, to deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Xiaowen Shi , Xin Li , Caili Wu , Shuchen Kong , Jing Yang , Liang He

Semi-supervised crowd counting is crucial for addressing the high annotation costs of densely populated scenes. Although several methods based on pseudo-labeling have been proposed, it remains challenging to effectively and accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Maochen Yang , Zekun Li , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

Semi-supervised approaches for crowd counting attract attention, as the fully supervised paradigm is expensive and laborious due to its request for a large number of images of dense crowd scenarios and their annotations. This paper proposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yanda Meng , Hongrun Zhang , Yitian Zhao , Xiaoyun Yang , Xuesheng Qian , Xiaowei Huang , Yalin Zheng