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In this paper we propose ResnetCrowd, a deep residual architecture for simultaneous crowd counting, violent behaviour detection and crowd density level classification. To train and evaluate the proposed multi-objective technique, a new 100…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 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

Large-scale datasets have driven the rapid development of deep neural networks for visual recognition. However, annotating a massive dataset is expensive and time-consuming. Web images and their labels are, in comparison, much easier to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Bohan Zhuang , Lingqiao Liu , Yao Li , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Most existing crowd counting systems rely on the availability of the object location annotation which can be expensive to obtain. To reduce the annotation cost, one attractive solution is to leverage a large number of unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yan Liu , Lingqiao Liu , Peng Wang , Pingping Zhang , Yinjie Lei

Semi-supervised crowd counting is crucial for addressing the high annotation costs of densely populated scenes. Although several methods based on pseudo-labeling have been proposed, it remains challenging to effectively and accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Maochen Yang , Zekun Li , Jian Zhang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi

Supervised learning depends on annotated examples, which are taken to be the \emph{ground truth}. But these labels often come from noisy crowdsourcing platforms, like Amazon Mechanical Turk. Practitioners typically collect multiple labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ashish Khetan , Zachary C. Lipton , Anima Anandkumar

Deep learning-based crowd counting methods have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, in complex crowd scenarios, existing models still face challenges when adapting to significant density distribution differences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yihong Wu , Jinqiao Wei , Xionghui Zhao , Yidi Li , Shaoyi Du , Bin Ren , Nicu Sebe

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

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

To achieve state-of-the-art performance, one still needs to train NER models on large-scale, high-quality annotated data, an asset that is both costly and time-intensive to accumulate. In contrast, real-world applications often resort to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Zhendong Chu , Ruiyi Zhang , Tong Yu , Rajiv Jain , Vlad I Morariu , Jiuxiang Gu , Ani Nenkova

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

With multiple crowd gatherings of millions of people every year in events ranging from pilgrimages to protests, concerts to marathons, and festivals to funerals; visual crowd analysis is emerging as a new frontier in computer vision. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Haroon Idrees , Muhmmad Tayyab , Kishan Athrey , Dong Zhang , Somaya Al-Maadeed , Nasir Rajpoot , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, the dual-optical attention fusion crowd head point counting model (TAPNet) is proposed to address the problem of the difficulty of accurate counting in complex scenes such as crowd dense occlusion and low light in crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fei Zhou , Yi Li , Mingqing Zhu

Crowdsourcing is regarded as one prospective solution for effective supervised learning, aiming to build large-scale annotated training data by crowd workers. Previous studies focus on reducing the influences from the noises of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Xin Zhang , Guangwei Xu , Yueheng Sun , Meishan Zhang , Pengjun Xie

Multi-view crowd counting has been proposed to deal with the severe occlusion issue of crowd counting in large and wide scenes. However, due to the difficulty of collecting and annotating multi-view images, the datasets for multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qi Zhang , Yunfei Gong , Zhidan Xie , Zhizi Wang , Antoni B. Chan , Hui Huang

We present an approach to effectively use millions of images with noisy annotations in conjunction with a small subset of cleanly-annotated images to learn powerful image representations. One common approach to combine clean and noisy data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Andreas Veit , Neil Alldrin , Gal Chechik , Ivan Krasin , Abhinav Gupta , Serge Belongie

Estimating crowd count in densely crowded scenes is an extremely challenging task due to non-uniform scale variations. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end cascaded network of CNNs to jointly learn crowd count classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

In this paper, we propose a new agency-guided semi-supervised counting approach. First, we build a learnable auxiliary structure, namely the density agency to bring the recognized foreground regional features close to corresponding density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Hui Lin , Zhiheng Ma , Xiaopeng Hong , Yaowei Wang , Zhou Su

Dense crowd counting is a challenging task that demands millions of head annotations for training models. Though existing self-supervised approaches could learn good representations, they require some labeled data to map these features to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Deepak Babu Sam , Abhinav Agarwalla , Jimmy Joseph , Vishwanath A. Sindagi , R. Venkatesh Babu , Vishal M. Patel

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