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Precise knowledge about the size of a crowd, its density and flow can provide valuable information for safety and security applications, event planning, architectural design and to analyze consumer behavior. Creating a powerful machine…

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This work considers supervised learning to count from images and their corresponding point annotations. Where density-based counting methods typically use the point annotations only to create Gaussian-density maps, which act as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zenglin Shi , Pascal Mettes , Cees G. M. Snoek

Transformer-based architectures have become the prevailing backbone of large language models. However, the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention remains a fundamental obstacle to efficient long-context modeling. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yutao Sun , Zhenyu Li , Yike Zhang , Tengyu Pan , Bowen Dong , Yuyi Guo , Jianyong Wang

Noisy annotations such as missing annotations and location shifts often exist in crowd counting datasets due to multi-scale head sizes, high occlusion, etc. These noisy annotations severely affect the model training, especially for density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mingliang Dai , Zhizhong Huang , Jiaqi Gao , Hongming Shan , Junping Zhang

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

The recently developed transformer networks have achieved impressive performance in image denoising by exploiting the self-attention (SA) in images. However, the existing methods mostly use a relatively small window to compute SA due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shi Guo , Hongwei Yong , Xindong Zhang , Jianqi Ma , Lei Zhang

Recently, density map regression-based methods have dominated in crowd counting owing to their excellent fitting ability on density distribution. However, further improvement tends to saturate mainly because of the confusing background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Chenliang Gu , Changan Wang , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Tianliang Zhang

Background noise and scale variation are common problems that have been long recognized in crowd counting. Humans glance at a crowd image and instantly know the approximate number of human and where they are through attention the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Dong Zhang , Kun Zhang , Badong Chen , Shaoyi Du

Device-free crowd-counting using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) is a key enabling technology for a new generation of privacy-preserving Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, practical deployment is severely hampered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Oliver Custance , Saad Khan , Simon Parkinson , Quan Z. Sheng

Autonomous navigation in highly populated areas remains a challenging task for robots because of the difficulty in guaranteeing safe interactions with pedestrians in unstructured situations. In this work, we present a crowd navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Diego Paez-Granados , Yujie He , David Gonon , Dan Jia , Bastian Leibe , Kenji Suzuki , Aude Billard

Crowd localization is a new computer vision task, evolved from crowd counting. Different from the latter, it provides more precise location information for each instance, not just counting numbers for the whole crowd scene, which brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Junyu Gao , Maoguo Gong , Xuelong Li

Forecasting the flow of crowds is of great importance to traffic management and public safety, and very challenging as it is affected by many complex factors, including spatial dependencies (nearby and distant), temporal dependencies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Junbo Zhang , Yu Zheng , Dekang Qi , Ruiyuan Li , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

Attention is a fundamental component of the human visual recognition system. The inclusion of attention in a convolutional neural network amplifies relevant visual features and suppresses the less important ones. Integrating attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Anam Hashmi , Julia Dietlmeier , Kathleen M. Curran , Noel E. O'Connor

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

Localizing individuals in crowds is more in accordance with the practical demands of subsequent high-level crowd analysis tasks than simply counting. However, existing localization based methods relying on intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qingyu Song , Changan Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Yang Wu

Spatial attention mechanism has been widely used in semantic segmentation of remote sensing images given its capability to model long-range dependencies. Many methods adopting spatial attention mechanism aggregate contextual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xiaowen Ma , Rui Che , Tingfeng Hong , Mengting Ma , Ziyan Zhao , Tian Feng , Wei Zhang

Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works address the problem by predicting individual trajectories and considering surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya , Paul Henderson , Marwa Mahmoud

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. These capabilities stem primarily from the self-attention mechanism, which enables modeling of long-range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zeng You , Yaofo Chen , Shuhai Zhang , Zhijie Qiu , Tingyu Wu , Yingjian Li , Yaowei Wang , Mingkui Tan

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

Channel and spatial attention mechanisms introduced by earlier works enhance the representation abilities of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) but often lead to increased parameter and computation costs. While recent approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rishabh Sabharwal , Ram Samarth B B , Parikshit Singh Rathore , Punit Rathore