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We propose a multitask approach for crowd counting and person localization in a unified framework. As the detection and localization tasks are well-correlated and can be jointly tackled, our model benefits from a multitask solution by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohsen Zand , Haleh Damirchi , Andrew Farley , Mahdiyar Molahasani , Michael Greenspan , Ali Etemad

Dense crowd counting aims to predict thousands of human instances from an image, by calculating integrals of a density map over image pixels. Existing approaches mainly suffer from the extreme density variances. Such density pattern shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Chenfeng Xu , Kai Qiu , Jianlong Fu , Song Bai , Yongchao Xu , Xiang Bai

The performance of optical flow algorithms greatly depends on the specifics of the content and the application for which it is used. Existing and well established optical flow datasets are limited to rather particular contents from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gregory Schröder , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora

Crowd mobility has been paid attention for the Internet-of-things (IoT) applications. This paper addresses the crowd estimation problem and builds an IoT service to share the crowd estimation results across different systems. The crowd…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Fang-Jing Wu , Gürkan Solmaz

Swarms of drones are being more and more used in many practical scenarios, such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, search and rescue in hardly-accessible areas, etc.. While a single drone can be guided by a human operator, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

In intelligent building management, knowing the number of people and their location in a room are important for better control of its illumination, ventilation, and heating with reduced costs and improved comfort. This is typically achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Thomas Dubail , Fidel Alejandro Guerrero Peña , Heitor Rapela Medeiros , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the heavy occlusions, scales, and density variations. Existing methods handle these challenges effectively while ignoring low-resolution (LR) circumstances. The LR circumstances weaken the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jiahao Xie , Wei Xu , Dingkang Liang , Zhanyu Ma , Kongming Liang , Weidong Liu , Rui Wang , Ling Jin

Crowd scenes captured by cameras at different locations vary greatly, and existing crowd models have limited generalization for unseen surveillance scenes. To improve the generalization of the model, we regard different surveillance scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiwei Chen , Qi Wang , Junyu Gao , Jing Zhang , Dingyi Li , Jing-Jia Luo

Crowd scene analysis receives growing attention due to its wide applications. Grasping the accurate crowd location (rather than merely crowd count) is important for spatially identifying high-risk regions in congested scenes. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Yao Xue , Siming Liu , Yonghui Li , Xueming Qian

Forecasting human activities observed in videos is a long-standing challenge in computer vision, which leads to various real-world applications such as mobile robots, autonomous driving, and assistive systems. In this work, we present a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Hiroaki Minoura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been successfully investigated in computer vision. However, MOT for the videos captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is still challenging due to small object size, blurred object appearance, and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mufeng Yao , Jiaqi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu

Crowd counting problem aims to count the number of objects within an image or a frame in the videos and is usually solved by estimating the density map generated from the object location annotations. The values in the density map, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shengqin Jiang , Xiaobo Lu , Yinjie Lei , Lingqiao Liu

Multi-drone surveillance systems offer enhanced coverage and robustness for pedestrian tracking, yet existing approaches struggle with dynamic camera positions and complex occlusions. This paper introduces MATRIX (Multi-Aerial TRacking In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kosta Dakic , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Rodrigo N. Calheiros , Teng Joon Lim

Vision-based automatic counting of people has widespread applications in intelligent transportation systems, security, and logistics. However, there is currently no large-scale public dataset for benchmarking approaches on this problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 ShiJie Sun , Naveed Akhtar , HuanSheng Song , ChaoYang Zhang , JianXin Li , Ajmal Mian

A significant challenge in object detection is accurate identification of an object's position in image space, whereas one algorithm with one set of parameters is usually not enough, and the fusion of multiple algorithms and/or parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Pan Wei , John E. Ball , Derek T. Anderson

An understanding of pedestrian dynamics is indispensable for numerous urban applications including the design of transportation networks and planing for business development. Pedestrian counting often requires utilizing manual or technical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Eric K. Tokuda , Yitzchak Lockerman , Gabriel B. A. Ferreira , Ethan Sorrelgreen , David Boyle , Roberto M. Cesar-Jr. , Claudio T. Silva

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

Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the issues such as scale variation and perspective variation in real crowd scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel Cascaded Residual Density Network (CRDNet) in a coarse-to-fine approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kun Zhao , Luchuan Song , Bin Liu , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Image-based multi-person reconstruction in wide-field large scenes is critical for crowd analysis and security alert. However, existing methods cannot deal with large scenes containing hundreds of people, which encounter the challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Hao Wen , Jing Huang , Huili Cui , Haozhe Lin , YuKun Lai , Lu Fang , Kun Li

Occlusion is one of the fundamental challenges in crowd counting. In the community, various data-driven approaches have been developed to address this issue, yet their effectiveness is limited. This is mainly because most existing crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Runling Long , Yunlong Wang , Jia Wan , Xiang Deng , Xinting Zhu , Weili Guan , Antoni B. Chan , Liqiang Nie