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Mobile robots navigating in crowds trained using reinforcement learning are known to suffer performance degradation when faced with out-of-distribution scenarios. We propose that by properly accounting for the uncertainties of pedestrians,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jianpeng Yao , Xiaopan Zhang , Yu Xia , Zejin Wang , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Jiachen Li

Crowd localization is a new computer vision task, evolved from crowd counting. Different from the latter, it provides more precise location information for each instance, not just counting numbers for the whole crowd scene, which brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Junyu Gao , Maoguo Gong , Xuelong Li

In this paper, we propose a method called Convolutional Neural Network-Markov Random Field (CNN-MRF) to estimate the crowd count in a still image. We first divide the dense crowd visible image into overlapping patches and then use a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Kang Han , Wanggen Wan , Haiyan Yao , Li Hou

Robot navigation in dense human crowds poses a significant challenge due to the complexity of human behavior in dynamic and obstacle-rich environments. In this work, we propose a dynamic weight adjustment scheme using a neural network to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Muqing Cao , Xinhang Xu , Yizhuo Yang , Jianping Li , Tongxing Jin , Pengfei Wang , Tzu-Yi Hung , Guosheng Lin , Lihua Xie

Compared with single image based crowd counting, video provides the spatial-temporal information of the crowd that would help improve the robustness of crowd counting. But translation, rotation and scaling of people lead to the change of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yanyan Fang , Biyun Zhan , Wandi Cai , Shenghua Gao , Bo Hu

Crowd counting is an important task in computer vision, which has many applications in video surveillance. Although the regression-based framework has achieved great improvements for crowd counting, how to improve the discriminative power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Biyun Sheng , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Jun Li , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

In this paper we advance the state-of-the-art for crowd counting in high density scenes by further exploring the idea of a fully convolutional crowd counting model introduced by (Zhang et al., 2016). Producing an accurate and robust crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Mark Marsden , Kevin McGuinness , Suzanne Little , Noel E. O'Connor

To alleviate the heavy annotation burden for training a reliable crowd counting model and thus make the model more practicable and accurate by being able to benefit from more data, this paper presents a new semi-supervised method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yifei Qian , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhongliang Guo , Ognjen Arandjelović , Carl R. Donovan

Crowd counting from a single image is a challenging task due to high appearance similarity, perspective changes and severe congestion. Many methods only focus on the local appearance features and they cannot handle the aforementioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Junyu Gao , Qi Wang , Xuelong Li

An important aspect of urban planning is understanding crowd levels at various locations, which typically require the use of physical sensors. Such sensors are potentially costly and time consuming to implement on a large scale. To address…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jerome Heng , Junhua Liu , Kwan Hui Lim

Anomaly detection in crowds enables early rescue response. A plug-and-play smart camera for crowd surveillance has numerous constraints different from typical anomaly detection: the training data cannot be used iteratively; there are no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Mishal Fatima , Chong-Min Kyung

Pig counting is a crucial task for large-scale pig farming, which is usually completed by human visually. But this process is very time-consuming and error-prone. Few studies in literature developed automated pig counting method. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Guang Chen , Shiwen Shen , Longyin Wen , Si Luo , Liefeng Bo

Human trajectory forecasting in crowds, at its core, is a sequence prediction problem with specific challenges of capturing inter-sequence dependencies (social interactions) and consequently predicting socially-compliant multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Parth Kothari , Brian Sifringer , Alexandre Alahi

This paper studies a coordinate alignment problem for cooperative mobile sensor network localization with range-based measurements. The network consists of target nodes, each of which has only access position information in a local fixed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Keyou You , Qizhu Chen , Pei Xie , Shiji Song

In this paper, we propose a novel self-training approach named Crowd-SDNet that enables a typical object detector trained only with point-level annotations (i.e., objects are labeled with points) to estimate both the center points and sizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Yi Wang , Junhui Hou , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

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

Crowd counting is a task of estimating the number of the crowd through images, which is extremely valuable in the fields of intelligent security, urban planning, public safety management, and so on. However, the existing counting methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Zhao , Yubin Wen , Siyu Yang , Lichen Ning , Yuandong Liu , Junyu Gao

We consider the problem of few-shot scene adaptive crowd counting. Given a target camera scene, our goal is to adapt a model to this specific scene with only a few labeled images of that scene. The solution to this problem has potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Mahesh Kumar Krishna Reddy , Mohammad Hossain , Mrigank Rochan , Yang Wang

Bearing measurements,as the most common modality in nature, have recently gained traction in multi-robot systems to enhance mutual localization and swarm collaboration. Despite their advantages, challenges such as sensory noise, obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yingjian Wang , Xiangyong Wen , Fei Gao

In this paper, we propose a method for real-time anomaly detection and localization in crowded scenes. Each video is defined as a set of non-overlapping cubic patches, and is described using two local and global descriptors. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Mohammad Sabokrou , Mahmood Fathy , Mojtaba Hosseini , Reinhard Klette