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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

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

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 2020-07-16 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

We develop a Synthetic Fusion Pyramid Network (SPF-Net) with a scale-aware loss function design for accurate crowd counting. Existing crowd-counting methods assume that the training annotation points were accurate and thus ignore the fact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Yu-Chee Tseng , Ming-Ching Chang , Bor-Shiun Wang

Detecting human in a crowd is a challenging problem due to the uncertainties of occlusion patterns. In this paper, we propose to handle the crowd occlusion problem in human detection by leveraging the head part. Double Anchor RPN is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Kevin Zhang , Feng Xiong , Peize Sun , Li Hu , Boxun Li , Gang Yu

Crowd counting problem aims to count the number of objects within an image or a frame in the videos and is usually solved by estimating the density map generated from the object location annotations. The values in the density map, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shengqin Jiang , Xiaobo Lu , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu

Crowd localization targets on predicting each instance precise location within an image. Current advanced methods propose the pixel-wise binary classification to tackle the congested prediction, in which the pixel-level thresholds binarize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Junyu Gao , Da Zhang , Qiyu Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Xuelong Li

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

In this paper, we aim at tackling the problem of crowd counting in extremely high-density scenes, which contain hundreds, or even thousands of people. We begin by a comprehensive analysis of the most widely used density map-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Hanhui Li , Xiangjian He , Hefeng Wu , Saeed Amirgholipour Kasmani , Ruomei Wang , Xiaonan Luo , Liang Lin

Recent protocols and metrics for training and evaluating autonomous robot navigation through crowds are inconsistent due to diversified definitions of "social behavior". This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to effectively compare…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Junxian Wang , Wesley P. Chan , Pamela Carreno-Medrano , Akansel Cosgun , Elizabeth Croft

Growing apprehensions surrounding public safety have captured the attention of numerous governments and security agencies across the globe. These entities are increasingly acknowledging the imperative need for reliable and secure…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Mohammed Ameen , Richard Stone

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

Crowd analysis and management is a challenging problem to ensure public safety and security. For this purpose, many techniques have been proposed to cope with various problems. However, the generalization capabilities of these techniques is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tauseef Ali , Ahmed B. Altamimi

Research in neural networks in the field of computer vision has achieved remarkable accuracy for point estimation. However, the uncertainty in the estimation is rarely addressed. Uncertainty quantification accompanied by point estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Min-hwan Oh , Peder A. Olsen , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy

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

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

In crowd counting datasets, people appear at different scales, depending on their distance from the camera. To address this issue, we propose a novel multi-branch scale-aware attention network that exploits the hierarchical structure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Rahul Rama Varior , Bing Shuai , Joseph Tighe , Davide Modolo

Accurate people localisation using drones is crucial for effective crowd management, not only during massive events and public gatherings but also for monitoring daily urban crowd flow. Traditional methods for tiny object localisation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bartosz Ptak , Marek Kraft

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

Crowd counting and localization have become increasingly important in computer vision due to their wide-ranging applications. While point-based strategies have been widely used in crowd counting methods, they face a significant challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 I-Hsiang Chen , Wei-Ting Chen , Yu-Wei Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Sy-Yen Kuo