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Crowd counting has gained significant popularity due to its practical applications. However, mainstream counting methods ignore precise individual localization and suffer from annotation noise because of counting from estimating density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Hao-Yuan Ma , Li Zhang , Xiang-Yi Wei

Automatic crowd counting using density estimation has gained significant attention in computer vision research. As a result, a large number of crowd counting and density estimation models using convolution neural networks (CNN) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting and localization network named SCALNet. Unlike most existing works that separate the counting and localization tasks, we consider those tasks as a pixel-wise dense prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yi Wang , Xinyu Hou , Lap-Pui Chau

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

In this article, we propose a simulated crowd counting dataset CrowdX, which has a large scale, accurate labeling, parameterized realization, and high fidelity. The experimental results of using this dataset as data enhancement show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yi Hou , Chengyang Li , Yuheng Lu , Liping Zhu , Yuan Li , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie

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

Crowd counting is an important yet challenging task in computer vision due to serious occlusions, complex background and large scale variations, etc. Multi-column architecture is widely adopted to overcome these challenges, yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Junhao Cheng , Zhuojun Chen , XinYu Zhang , Yizhou Li , Xiaoyuan Jing

Current crowd counting algorithms are only concerned about the number of people in an image, which lacks low-level fine-grained information of the crowd. For many practical applications, the total number of people in an image is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Jia Wan , Nikil Senthil Kumar , Antoni B. Chan

In this work, we propose a novel crowd counting network that progressively generates crowd density maps via residual error estimation. The proposed method uses VGG16 as the backbone network and employs density map generated by the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

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

Crowd counting is an important problem in computer vision due to its wide range of applications in image understanding. Currently, this problem is typically addressed using deep learning approaches, such as Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhen Wang , Yuelei Li , Jia Wan , Nuno Vasconcelos

Modern crowd counting methods usually employ deep neural networks (DNN) to estimate crowd counts via density regression. Despite their significant improvements, the regression-based methods are incapable of providing the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Yuting Liu , Miaojing Shi , Qijun Zhao , Xiaofang Wang

Perspective distortions and crowd variations make crowd counting a challenging task in computer vision. To tackle it, many previous works have used multi-scale architecture in deep neural networks (DNNs). Multi-scale branches can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhipeng Du , Miaojing Shi , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Crowd counting is gaining societal relevance, particularly in domains of Urban Planning, Crowd Management, and Public Safety. This paper introduces Fourier-guided attention (FGA), a novel attention mechanism for crowd count estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yashwardhan Chaudhuri , Ankit Kumar , Arun Balaji Buduru , Adel Alshamrani

Visible and infrared image fusion (VIF) is an important multimedia task in computer vision. Most VIF methods focus primarily on optimizing fused image quality. Recent studies have begun incorporating downstream tasks, such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 He Li , Xinyu Liu , Weihang Kong , Xingchen Zhang

We propose a novel crowd counting model that maps a given crowd scene to its density. Crowd analysis is compounded by myriad of factors like inter-occlusion between people due to extreme crowding, high similarity of appearance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Deepak Babu Sam , Shiv Surya , R. Venkatesh Babu

In recent years, crowd counting, a technique for predicting the number of people in an image, becomes a challenging task in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a cross-column feature fusion network to solve the problem of information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Geng Chen , Peirong Guo

Crowd counting is to estimate the number of objects (e.g., people or vehicles) in an image of unconstrained congested scenes. Designing a general crowd counting algorithm applicable to a wide range of crowd images is challenging, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Haoyue Bai , Song Wen , S. -H. Gary Chan

Crowd counting aims to count the number of instantaneous people in a crowded space, and many promising solutions have been proposed for single image crowd counting. With the ubiquitous video capture devices in public safety field, how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xingjiao Wu , Baohan Xu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Jing Yang , Liang He