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State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density in the image plane. While useful for this purpose, this image-plane density has no immediate physical meaning because it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Weizhe Liu , Krzysztof Lis , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

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

Detecting human in a crowd is a challenging problem due to the uncertainties of occlusion patterns. In this paper, we propose to handle the crowd occlusion problem in human detection by leveraging the head part. Double Anchor RPN is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Kevin Zhang , Feng Xiong , Peize Sun , Li Hu , Boxun Li , Gang Yu

Crowd counting is a task worth exploring in modern society because of its wide applications such as public safety and video monitoring. Many CNN-based approaches have been proposed to improve the accuracy of estimation, but there are some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Bo Wei , Mulin Chen , Qi Wang , Xuelong Li

In recent years, with the progress of deep learning technologies, crowd counting has been rapidly developed. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting framework that is able to achieve the state-of-the-art performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yue Gu , Wenxi Liu

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

Counting people or objects with significantly varying scales and densities has attracted much interest from the research community and yet it remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a simple but an efficient and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Lei Liu , Jie Jiang , Wenjing Jia , Saeed Amirgholipour , Michelle Zeibots , Xiangjian He

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

State-of-the-art multi-object tracking~(MOT) methods follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, where object trajectories are obtained by associating per-frame outputs of object detectors. In crowded scenes, however, detectors often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Weihong Ren , Xinchao Wang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Antoni B. Chan

Bound propagation based incomplete neural network verifiers such as CROWN are very efficient and can significantly accelerate branch-and-bound (BaB) based complete verification of neural networks. However, bound propagation cannot fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shiqi Wang , Huan Zhang , Kaidi Xu , Xue Lin , Suman Jana , Cho-Jui Hsieh , J. Zico Kolter

Multi-modal crowd counting involves estimating crowd density from both visual and thermal/depth images. This task is challenging due to the significant gap between these distinct modalities. In this paper, we propose a novel approach by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Haoliang Meng , Xiaopeng Hong , Chenhao Wang , Miao Shang , Wangmeng Zuo

People counting system in crowded places has become a very useful practical application that can be accomplished in various ways which include many traditional methods using sensors. Examining the case of real time scenarios, the algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Satyanarayana Penke , Gopikrishna Pavuluri , Soukhya Kunda , Satvik M , CharanKumar Y

The data distribution in popular crowd counting datasets is typically heavy tailed and discontinuous. This skew affects all stages within the pipelines of deep crowd counting approaches. Specifically, the approaches exhibit unacceptably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Sravya Vardhani Shivapuja , Ashwin Gopinath , Ayush Gupta , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla

The aim of crowd counting is to estimate the number of people in images by leveraging the annotation of center positions for pedestrians' heads. Promising progresses have been made with the prevalence of deep Convolutional Neural Networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Xiu Li , Qi Dai , Xiao Wu , Alexander Hauptmann

In the last decade, crowd counting and localization attract much attention of researchers due to its wide-spread applications, including crowd monitoring, public safety, space design, etc. Many Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Wei Lin , Xuelong Li

Current crowd-counting models often rely on single-modal inputs, such as visual images or wireless signal data, which can result in significant information loss and suboptimal recognition performance. To address these shortcomings, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhe Cui , Yuli Li , Le-Nam Tran

Since COVID-19, crowd-counting tasks have gained wide applications. While supervised methods are reliable, annotation is more challenging in high-density scenes due to small head sizes and severe occlusion, whereas it's simpler in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guoliang Xu , Jianqin Yin , Ren Zhang , Yonghao Dang , Feng Zhou , Bo Yu

Computer vision tasks often have side information available that is helpful to solve the task. For example, for crowd counting, the camera perspective (e.g., camera angle and height) gives a clue about the appearance and scale of people in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Di Kang , Debarun Dhar , Antoni B. Chan

Certified robustness is a desirable property for deep neural networks in safety-critical applications, and popular training algorithms can certify robustness of a neural network by computing a global bound on its Lipschitz constant.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yujia Huang , Huan Zhang , Yuanyuan Shi , J Zico Kolter , Anima Anandkumar

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