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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, which is a key computer vision task, has emerged as a fundamental technology in crowd analysis and public safety management. However, challenges such as scale variations and complex backgrounds significantly impact the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Peng Liu , Heng-Chao Li , Sen Lei , Nanqing Liu , Bin Feng , Xiao Wu

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

As the number of individuals in a crowd grows, enumeration-based techniques become increasingly infeasible and their estimates increasingly unreliable. We propose instead an estimation-based version of the problem: we label Rough Crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Shengqin Jiang , Linfei Li , Haokui Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Amin Beheshti , Jian Yang , Anton van den Hengel , Quan Z. Sheng , Yuankai Qi

Seamlessly operating an autonomous vehicle in a crowded pedestrian environment is a very challenging task. This is because human movement and interactions are very hard to predict in such environments. Recent work has demonstrated that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kunming Li , Mao Shan , Karan Narula , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

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

Video-based high-density crowd analysis and prediction has been a long-standing topic in computer vision. It is notoriously difficult due to, but not limited to, the lack of high-quality data and complex crowd dynamics. Consequently, it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Feixiang He , Jiangbei Yue , Jialin Zhu , Armin Seyfried , Dan Casas , Julien Pettré , He Wang

Notably, current intelligent transportation systems rely heavily on accurate traffic forecasting and swift inference provision to make timely decisions. While Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown benefits in modeling complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhaoyan Wang , Xiangchi Song , In-Young Ko

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

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

Crowd counting research has made significant advancements in real-world applications, but it remains a formidable challenge in cross-modal settings. Most existing methods rely solely on the optical features of RGB images, ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Youjia Zhang , Soyun Choi , Sungeun Hong

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

Multi-person pose estimation is fundamental to many computer vision tasks and has made significant progress in recent years. However, few previous methods explored the problem of pose estimation in crowded scenes while it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Jiefeng Li , Can Wang , Hao Zhu , Yihuan Mao , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

Multi-modal crowd counting is a crucial task that uses multi-modal cues to estimate the number of people in crowded scenes. To overcome the gap between different modalities, we propose a modal emulation-based two-pass multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chenhao Wang , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Yupeng Wei , Yabin Wang , Xiaopeng Fan

In this paper, we aim at tackling the problem of crowd counting in extremely high-density scenes, which contain hundreds, or even thousands of people. We begin by a comprehensive analysis of the most widely used density map-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Hanhui Li , Xiangjian He , Hefeng Wu , Saeed Amirgholipour Kasmani , Ruomei Wang , Xiaonan Luo , Liang Lin

A crowd density forecasting task aims to predict how the crowd density map will change in the future from observed past crowd density maps. However, the past crowd density maps are often incomplete due to the miss-detection of pedestrians,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Ryo Fujii , Ryo Hachiuma , Hideo Saito

The problem of counting crowds in varying density scenes or in different density regions of the same scene, named as pan-density crowd counting, is highly challenging. Previous methods are designed for single density scenes or do not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yukun Tian , Yiming Lei , Junping Zhang , James Z. Wang

Human pose estimation has recently made significant progress with the adoption of deep convolutional neural networks. Its many applications have attracted tremendous interest in recent years. However, many practical applications require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Thomas Golda , Tobias Kalb , Arne Schumann , Jürgen Beyerer

Our work proposes a novel deep learning framework for estimating crowd density from static images of highly dense crowds. We use a combination of deep and shallow, fully convolutional networks to predict the density map for a given crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Lokesh Boominathan , Srinivas S S Kruthiventi , R. Venkatesh Babu

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