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Computer vision tasks often have side information available that is helpful to solve the task. For example, for crowd counting, the camera perspective (e.g., camera angle and height) gives a clue about the appearance and scale of people in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Di Kang , Debarun Dhar , Antoni B. Chan

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

Because of the powerful learning capability of deep neural networks, counting performance via density map estimation has improved significantly during the past several years. However, it is still very challenging due to severe occlusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Di Kang , Antoni Chan

High-density object counting in surveillance scenes is challenging mainly due to the drastic variation of object scales. The prevalence of deep learning has largely boosted the object counting accuracy on several benchmark datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Muming Zhao , Jian Zhang , Chongyang Zhang , Wenjun Zhang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have dominated the field of computer vision for nearly a decade due to their strong ability to learn local features. However, due to their limited receptive field, CNNs fail to model the global context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Siddharth Singh Savner , Vivek Kanhangad

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

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

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

Current crowd-counting models often rely on single-modal inputs, such as visual images or wireless signal data, which can result in significant information loss and suboptimal recognition performance. To address these shortcomings, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhe Cui , Yuli Li , Le-Nam Tran

The estimation of crowd count in images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. Recently, the convolutional neural network (CNN) based approaches have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Xinghao Ding , Zhirui Lin , Fujin He , Yu Wang , Yue Huang

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

We introduce a detection framework for dense crowd counting and eliminate the need for the prevalent density regression paradigm. Typical counting models predict crowd density for an image as opposed to detecting every person. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Deepak Babu Sam , Skand Vishwanath Peri , Mukuntha Narayanan Sundararaman , Amogh Kamath , R. Venkatesh Babu

Crowd counting is a challenging yet critical task in computer vision with applications ranging from public safety to urban planning. Recent advances using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that estimate density maps have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Abhinav Sagar

In recent years, crowd counting has become an important issue in computer vision. In most methods, the density maps are generated by convolving with a Gaussian kernel from the ground-truth dot maps which are marked around the center of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Xin Zhong , Zhaoyi Yan , Jing Qin , Wangmeng Zuo , Weigang Lu

In the field of crowd counting, the current mainstream CNN-based regression methods simply extract the density information of pedestrians without finding the position of each person. This makes the output of the network often found to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yi Hou , Chengyang Li , Fan Yang , Cong Ma , Liping Zhu , Yuan Li , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. They typically use the same filters over the whole image or over large image patches. Only then do they estimate local scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Crowd scenes captured by cameras at different locations vary greatly, and existing crowd models have limited generalization for unseen surveillance scenes. To improve the generalization of the model, we regard different surveillance scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiwei Chen , Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Jing Zhang , Dingyi Li , Jing-Jia Luo

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of crowd counting in images. Given an image of a crowded scene, our goal is to estimate the density map of this image, where each pixel value in the density map corresponds to the crowd density at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mohammad Asiful Hossain , Mehrdad Hosseinzadeh , Omit Chanda , Yang Wang

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