Rethinking spatial invariance of convolutional networks for object counting

ZQ Cheng, Q Dai, H Li, J Song, X Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Previous work generally believes that improving the spatial invariance of convolutional
networks is the key to object counting. However, after verifying several mainstream counting …

From open set to closed set: Counting objects by spatial divide-and-conquer

H Xiong, H Lu, C Liu, L Liu, Z Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Visual counting, a task that predicts the number of objects from an image/video, is an open-
set problem by nature, ie, the number of population can vary in [0,+[?]) in theory. However …

Counting with focus for free

Z Shi, P Mettes, CGM Snoek - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper aims to count arbitrary objects in images. The leading counting approaches start
from point annotations per object from which they construct density maps. Then, their …

Adaptive dilated network with self-correction supervision for counting

S Bai, Z He, Y Qiao, H Hu, W Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The counting problem aims to estimate the number of objects in images. Due to large scale
variation and labeling deviations, it remains a challenging task. The static density map …

Counting from sky: A large-scale data set for remote sensing object counting and a benchmark method

G Gao, Q Liu, Y Wang - IEEE Transactions on geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object counting, whose aim is to estimate the number of objects from a given image, is an
important and challenging computation task. Significant efforts have been devoted to …

Attentional neural fields for crowd counting

A Zhang, L Yue, J Shen, F Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Crowd counting has recently generated huge popularity in computer vision, and is extremely
challenging due to the huge scale variations of objects. In this paper, we propose the …

Multi-scale dilated convolution of convolutional neural network for crowd counting

Y Wang, S Hu, G Wang, C Chen, Z Pan - Multimedia Tools and …, 2020 - Springer
Growing numbers of crowd density estimation methods have been developed in scene
monitoring, crowd safety and on-site management scheduling. We proposed a method for …

Leveraging heterogeneous auxiliary tasks to assist crowd counting

M Zhao, J Zhang, C Zhang… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Crowd counting is a challenging task in the presence of drastic scale variations, the clutter
background, and severe occlusions, etc. Existing CNN-based counting methods tackle these …

Dadnet: Dilated-attention-deformable convnet for crowd counting

D Guo, K Li, ZJ Zha, M Wang - Proceedings of the 27th ACM international …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Most existing CNN-based methods for crowd counting always suffer from large scale
variation in objects of interest, leading to density maps of low quality. In this paper, we …

Perspective-guided convolution networks for crowd counting

Z Yan, Y Yuan, W Zuo, X Tan… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we propose a novel perspective-guided convolution (PGC) for convolutional
neural network (CNN) based crowd counting (ie PGCNet), which aims to overcome the …