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Currently, for crowd counting, the fully supervised methods via density map estimation are the mainstream research directions. However, such methods need location-level annotation of persons in an image, which is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fusen Wang , Kai Liu , Fei Long , Nong Sang , Xiaofeng Xia , Jun Sang

The crowd counting task aims at estimating the number of people located in an image or a frame from videos. Existing methods widely adopt density maps as the training targets to optimize the point-to-point loss. While in testing phase, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Xiyang Liu , Jie Yang , Wenrui Ding

The attention mechanism is the computational core of modern Transformer architectures, but its quadratic complexity in the input sequence length is the bottleneck for large-scale inference. This has motivated a rapidly growing body of work…

The existing crowd counting methods usually adopted attention mechanism to tackle background noise, or applied multi-level features or multi-scales context fusion to tackle scale variation. However, these approaches deal with these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fusen Wang , Jun Sang , Zhongyuan Wu , Qi Liu , Nong Sang

State-of-the-art crowd counting models follow an encoder-decoder approach. Images are first processed by the encoder to extract features. Then, to account for perspective distortion, the highest-level feature map is fed to extra components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yiming Ma , Victor Sanchez , Tanaya Guha

Most conventional crowd counting methods utilize a fully-supervised learning framework to establish a mapping between scene images and crowd density maps. They usually rely on a large quantity of costly and time-intensive pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiaqi Gao , Zhizhong Huang , Yiming Lei , Hongming Shan , James Z. Wang , Fei-Yue Wang , Junping Zhang

Most existing crowd counting systems rely on the availability of the object location annotation which can be expensive to obtain. To reduce the annotation cost, one attractive solution is to leverage a large number of unlabeled images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yan Liu , Lingqiao Liu , Peng Wang , Pingping Zhang , Yinjie Lei

Recently the crowd counting has received more and more attention. Especially the technology of high-density environment has become an important research content, and the relevant methods for the existence of extremely dense crowd are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mengxiao Tian , Hao Guo , Chengjiang Long

Automatic people counting from images has recently drawn attention for urban monitoring in modern Smart Cities due to the ubiquity of surveillance camera networks. Current computer vision techniques rely on deep learning-based algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Marco Avvenuti , Marco Bongiovanni , Luca Ciampi , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Nicola Messina

It is well known that CS can boost massive random access protocols. Usually, the protocols operate in some overloaded regime where the sparsity can be exploited. In this paper, we consider a different approach by taking an orthogonal FFT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Gerhard Wunder , Axel Flinth , Benedikt Groß

Understanding crowd behaviors in a large social event is crucial for event management. Passive WiFi sensing, by collecting WiFi probe requests sent from mobile devices, provides a better way to monitor crowds compared with people counters…

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In this paper, we address the challenging problem of crowd counting in congested scenes. Specifically, we present Inverse Attention Guided Deep Crowd Counting Network (IA-DCCN) that efficiently infuses segmentation information through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Vishwanath A. Sindagi , Vishal M. Patel

In real-world crowd counting applications, the crowd densities in an image vary greatly. When facing density variation, humans tend to locate and count the targets in low-density regions, and reason the number in high-density regions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Badong Chen , Shaoyi Du

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

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…

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Crowd management is of paramount importance when it comes to preventing stampedes and saving lives, especially in a countries like China and India where the combined population is a third of the global population. Millions of people convene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Varun Kannadi Valloli , Kinal Mehta

Semi-supervised crowd analysis is a prominent area of research, as unlabeled data are typically abundant and inexpensive to obtain. However, traditional point-based annotations constrain performance because individual regions are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiyang Huang , Hongru Cheng , Wei Lin , Jia Wan , Antoni B. Chan

Multi-view crowd counting can effectively mitigate occlusion issues that commonly arise in single-image crowd counting. Existing deep-learning multi-view crowd counting methods project different camera view images onto a common space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Bin Li , Daijie Chen , Qi Zhang

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…

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