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The rapid development in visual crowd analysis shows a trend to count people by positioning or even detecting, rather than simply summing a density map. It also enlightens us back to the essence of the field, detection to count, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Qi wang , Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Xuelong Li

The task of crowd counting is extremely challenging due to complicated difficulties, especially the huge variation in vision scale. Previous works tend to adopt a naive concatenation of multi-scale information to tackle it, while the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhikang Zou , Yifan Liu , Shuangjie Xu , Wei Wei , Shiping Wen , Pan Zhou

In the field of crowd counting, the current mainstream CNN-based regression methods simply extract the density information of pedestrians without finding the position of each person. This makes the output of the network often found to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yi Hou , Chengyang Li , Fan Yang , Cong Ma , Liping Zhu , Yuan Li , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie

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 remains a challenging task because the presence of drastic scale variation, density inconsistency, and complex background can seriously degrade the counting accuracy. To battle the ingrained issue of accuracy degradation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Mingjie Wang , Hao Cai , Xianfeng Han , Jun Zhou , Minglun Gong

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

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the large variations in crowd distributions. Previous methods tend to tackle the whole image with a single fixed structure, which is unable to handle diverse complicated scenes with different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhikang Zou , Yu Cheng , Xiaoye Qu , Shouling Ji , Xiaoxiao Guo , Pan Zhou

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

Due to its variety of applications in the real-world, the task of single image-based crowd counting has received a lot of interest in the recent years. Recently, several approaches have been proposed to address various problems encountered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Rajeev Yasarla , Vishal M. Patel

Crowd estimation is a very challenging problem. The most recent study tries to exploit auditory information to aid the visual models, however, the performance is limited due to the lack of an effective approach for feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Usman Sajid , Xiangyu Chen , Hasan Sajid , Taejoon Kim , Guanghui Wang

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

In this paper, we explore a strong baseline for crowd counting and an unsupervised people localization algorithm based on estimated density maps. Firstly, existing methods achieve state-of-the-art performance based on different backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Liangzi Rong , Chunping Li

Single image crowd counting is a challenging computer vision problem with wide applications in public safety, city planning, traffic management, etc. With the recent development of deep learning techniques, crowd counting has aroused much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Haoyue Bai , Jiageng Mao , S. -H. Gary Chan

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

The estimation of crowd count in images has a wide range of applications such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, public safety and urban planning. Recently, the convolutional neural network (CNN) based approaches have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Xinghao Ding , Zhirui Lin , Fujin He , Yu Wang , Yue Huang

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

We propose an attention-injective deformable convolutional network called ADCrowdNet for crowd understanding that can address the accuracy degradation problem of highly congested noisy scenes. ADCrowdNet contains two concatenated networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Ning Liu , Yongchao Long , Changqing Zou , Qun Niu , Li Pan , Hefeng Wu

Detection-based methods have been viewed unfavorably in crowd analysis due to their poor performance in dense crowds. However, we argue that the potential of these methods has been underestimated, as they offer crucial information for crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shaokai Wu , Fengyu Yang

We propose a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) paradigm based deep neural network architecture, called MTCNet (Multi-Task Crowd Network) for crowd density and count estimation. Crowd count estimation is challenging due to the non-uniform scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Abhay Kumar , Nishant Jain , Suraj Tripathi , Chirag Singh , Kamal Krishna

We seek to improve crowd counting as we perceive limits of currently prevalent density map estimation approach on both prediction accuracy and time efficiency. We leverage multilevel pixelation of density map as it helps improve SNR of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhuojun Chen , Junhao Cheng , Yuchen Yuan , Dongping Liao , Yizhou Li , Jiancheng Lv