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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

In the field of crowd counting research, many recent deep learning based methods have demonstrated robust capabilities for accurately estimating crowd sizes. However, the enhancement in their performance often arises from an increase in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lei Chen , Xinghang Gao , Fei Chao , Xiang Chang , Chih Min Lin , Xingen Gao , Shaopeng Lin , Hongyi Zhang , Juqiang Lin

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the large variations in crowd distributions. Previous methods tend to tackle the whole image with a single fixed structure, which is unable to handle diverse complicated scenes with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhikang Zou , Yu Cheng , Xiaoye Qu , Shouling Ji , Xiaoxiao Guo , Pan Zhou

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

Crowd counting usually addressed by density estimation becomes an increasingly important topic in computer vision due to its widespread applications in video surveillance, urban planning, and intelligence gathering. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ze Wang , Zehao Xiao , Kai Xie , Qiang Qiu , Xiantong Zhen , Xianbin Cao

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

Recent crowd counting approaches have achieved excellent performance. However, they are essentially based on fully supervised paradigm and require large number of annotated samples. Obtaining annotations is an expensive and labour-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Rajeev Yasarla , Deepak Sam Babu , R. Venkatesh Babu , Vishal M. Patel

Occlusions, complex backgrounds, scale variations and non-uniform distributions present great challenges for crowd counting in practical applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method using an attention model to exploit head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Youmei Zhang , Chunluan Zhou , Faliang Chang , Alex C. Kot

Precise knowledge about the size of a crowd, its density and flow can provide valuable information for safety and security applications, event planning, architectural design and to analyze consumer behavior. Creating a powerful machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Mahdi Maktabdar Oghaz , Anish R Khadka , Vasileios Argyriou , Paolo Remagnino

Automated crowd counting from images/videos has attracted more attention in recent years because of its wide application in smart cities. But modelling the dense crowd heads is challenging and most of the existing works become less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Haoran Duan , Shidong Wang , Yu Guan

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

Crowd counting based on density maps is generally regarded as a regression task.Deep learning is used to learn the mapping between image content and crowd density distribution. Although great success has been achieved, some pedestrians far…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Jiwei Chen , Kewei Wang , Wen Su , Zengfu Wang

Crowd counting, which is a key computer vision task, has emerged as a fundamental technology in crowd analysis and public safety management. However, challenges such as scale variations and complex backgrounds significantly impact the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Peng Liu , Heng-Chao Li , Sen Lei , Nanqing Liu , Bin Feng , Xiao Wu

Noisy annotations such as missing annotations and location shifts often exist in crowd counting datasets due to multi-scale head sizes, high occlusion, etc. These noisy annotations severely affect the model training, especially for density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mingliang Dai , Zhizhong Huang , Jiaqi Gao , Hongming Shan , Junping Zhang

Occupancy estimation and crowd counting are critical tasks in designing smart and efficient public transport vehicles. Given that public transport loading can vary from sparse to crowded, classical models for occupancy estimation must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aida Rostamza , Enrico Del Re , Joshua Cherian Varughese , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Automatic Crowd behavior analysis can be applied to effectively help the daily transportation statistics and planning, which helps the smart city construction. As one of the most important keys, crowd counting has drawn increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Haoran Duan , Fan Wan , Rui Sun , Zeyu Wang , Varun Ojha , Yu Guan , Hubert P. H. Shum , Bingzhang Hu , Yang Long

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

Crowd counting in single-view images has achieved outstanding performance on existing counting datasets. However, single-view counting is not applicable to large and wide scenes (e.g., public parks, long subway platforms, or event spaces)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Qi Zhang , Antoni B. Chan

In recent years, crowd counting and localization have become crucial techniques in computer vision, with applications spanning various domains. The presence of multi-scale crowd distributions within a single image remains a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuqing Yan , Yirui Wu

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