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For the task of change detection (CD) in remote sensing images, deep convolution neural networks (CNNs)-based methods have recently aggregated transformer modules to improve the capability of global feature extraction. However, they suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Weiming Li , Lihui Xue , Xueqian Wang , Gang Li

Recently, crowd counting is a hot topic in crowd analysis. Many CNN-based counting algorithms attain good performance. However, these methods only focus on the local appearance features of crowd scenes but ignore the large-range pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Junyu Gao , Qi Wang , Yuan Yuan

In this work, we tackle the problem of crowd counting in images. We present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based density estimation approach to solve this problem. Predicting a high resolution density map in one go is a challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Viresh Ranjan , Hieu Le , Minh Hoai

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Most of the crowd abnormal event detection methods rely on complex hand-crafted features to represent the crowd motion and appearance. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown to be a powerful tool with excellent representational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Moin Nabi , Hossein Mousavi , Enver Sangineto , Nicu Sebe

Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Guangshuai Gao , Junyu Gao , Qingjie Liu , Qi Wang , Yunhong Wang

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

Counting people or objects with significantly varying scales and densities has attracted much interest from the research community and yet it remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a simple but an efficient and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Lei Liu , Jie Jiang , Wenjing Jia , Saeed Amirgholipour , Michelle Zeibots , Xiangjian He

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

Transformer has been popular in recent crowd counting work since it breaks the limited receptive field of traditional CNNs. However, since crowd images always contain a large number of similar patches, the self-attention mechanism in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hui Lin , Zhiheng Ma , Xiaopeng Hong , Qinnan Shangguan , Deyu Meng

Crowd counting has been widely studied by computer vision community in recent years. Due to the large scale variation, it remains to be a challenging task. Previous methods adopt either multi-column CNN or single-column CNN with multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Feng Dai , Hao Liu , Yike Ma , Juan Cao , Qiang Zhao , Yongdong Zhang

Short-term future population prediction is a crucial problem in urban computing. Accurate future population prediction can provide rich insights for urban planners or developers. However, predicting the future population is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yuki Kubota , Yuki Ohira , Tetsuo Shimizu

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

Background noise and scale variation are common problems that have been long recognized in crowd counting. Humans glance at a crowd image and instantly know the approximate number of human and where they are through attention the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Dong Zhang , Kun Zhang , Badong Chen , Shaoyi Du

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

Video surveillance using drones is both convenient and efficient due to the ease of deployment and unobstructed movement of drones in many scenarios. An interesting application of drone-based video surveillance is to estimate crowd…

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

Region of Interest (ROI) crowd counting can be formulated as a regression problem of learning a mapping from an image or a video frame to a crowd density map. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) models have achieved promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Feng Xiong , Xingjian Shi , Dit-Yan Yeung

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

We seek to improve crowd counting as we perceive limits of currently prevalent density map estimation approach on both prediction accuracy and time efficiency. We leverage multilevel pixelation of density map as it helps improve SNR of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhuojun Chen , Junhao Cheng , Yuchen Yuan , Dongping Liao , Yizhou Li , Jiancheng Lv

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