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The task of crowd counting is to automatically estimate the pedestrian number in crowd images. To cope with the scale and perspective changes that commonly exist in crowd images, state-of-the-art approaches employ multi-column CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Lu Zhang , Miaojing Shi , Qiaobo Chen

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

The increasing application of social and human-enabled systems in people's daily life from one side and from the other side the fast growth of mobile and smart phones technologies have resulted in generating tremendous amount of data, also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Mohammad Allahbakhsh , Saeed Arbabi , Hamid-Reza Motahari-Nezhad , Boualem Benatallah

The mainstream crowd counting methods regress density map and integrate it to obtain counting results. Since the density representation to one head accords to its adjacent distribution, it embeds the same category objects with variant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Wang , Juncheng Wang , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

The motivation of this paper originates from rethinking an essential characteristic of crowd counting: individuals (heads of humans) in the crowd counting task typically occupy a very small portion of the image. This characteristic has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianhang Pan , Xiuyi Jia

Crowd counting is a challenging problem due to the scene complexity and scale variation. Although deep learning has achieved great improvement in crowd counting, scene complexity affects the judgement of these methods and they usually…

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

It is important to monitor and analyze crowd events for the sake of city safety. In an EDOF (extended depth of field) image with a crowded scene, the distribution of people is highly imbalanced. People far away from the camera look much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mingliang Xu , Zhaoyang Ge , Xiaoheng Jiang , Gaoge Cui , Pei Lv , Bing Zhou , Changsheng Xu

Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works address the problem by predicting individual trajectories and considering surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya , Paul Henderson , Marwa Mahmoud

In recent years, vision-based crowd analysis has been studied extensively due to its practical applications in real world. In this paper, we formulate a novel crowd analysis problem, in which we aim to predict the crowd distribution in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yuzhen Niu , Weifeng Shi , Wenxi Liu , Shengfeng He , Jia Pan , Antoni B. Chan

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

Drones shooting can be applied in dynamic traffic monitoring, object detecting and tracking, and other vision tasks. The variability of the shooting location adds some intractable challenges to these missions, such as varying scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Zhiyuan Zhao , Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Qi Wang , Xuelong Li

This study enhances a crowd density estimation algorithm originally designed for image-based analysis by adapting it for video-based scenarios. The proposed method integrates a denoising probabilistic model that utilizes diffusion processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Balachandra Devarangadi Sunil , Rakshith Venkatesh , Shantanu Todmal

We propose a novel crowd counting approach that leverages abundantly available unlabeled crowd imagery in a learning-to-rank framework. To induce a ranking of cropped images , we use the observation that any sub-image of a crowded scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Crowd counting is a regression task that estimates the number of people in a scene image, which plays a vital role in a range of safety-critical applications, such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring and flow control. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yuhua Sun , Tailai Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Pan Zhou , Jian Lou , Zichuan Xu , Xing Di , Yu Cheng , Lichao

Recently, the research of wireless sensing has achieved more intelligent results, and the intelligent sensing of human location and activity can be realized by means of WiFi devices. However, most of the current human environment perception…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Shangqing Liu , Yanchao Zhao , Fanggang Xue , Bing Chen , Xiang Chen

Estimating count and density maps from crowd images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. In addition, techniques developed for crowd counting can be applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd counting is a challenging yet critical task in computer vision with applications ranging from public safety to urban planning. Recent advances using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that estimate density maps have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Abhinav Sagar

Object counting is an important task in computer vision due to its growing demand in applications such as surveillance, traffic monitoring, and counting everyday objects. State-of-the-art methods use regression-based optimization where they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Issam H. Laradji , Negar Rostamzadeh , Pedro O. Pinheiro , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

This paper presents a crowd monitoring system based on the passive detection of probe requests. The system meets strict privacy requirements and is suited to monitoring events or buildings with a least a few hundreds of attendees. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-21 Jean-François Determe , Sophia Azzagnuni , Utkarsh Singh , François Horlin , Philippe De Doncker

Crowd management is a complex, challenging and crucial task. Lack of appropriate management of crowd has, in past, led to many unfortunate stampedes with significant loss of life. To increase the crowd management efficiency, we deploy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Garima Ahuja , Kamalakar Karlapalem