Approaches on crowd counting and density estimation: a review

B Li, H Huang, A Zhang, P Liu, C Liu - Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2021 - Springer
In recent years, urgent needs for counting crowds and vehicles have greatly promoted
research of crowd counting and density estimation. Benefiting from the rapid development of …

Rethinking counting and localization in crowds: A purely point-based framework

Q Song, C Wang, Z Jiang, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Localizing individuals in crowds is more in accordance with the practical demands of
subsequent high-level crowd analysis tasks than simply counting. However, existing …

Distribution matching for crowd counting

B Wang, H Liu, D Samaras… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In crowd counting, each training image contains multiple people, where each person is
annotated by a dot. Existing crowd counting methods need to use a Gaussian to smooth …

Cnn-based density estimation and crowd counting: A survey

G Gao, J Gao, Q Liu, Q Wang, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12783, 2020 - arxiv.org
Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet
meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and …

Adaptive mixture regression network with local counting map for crowd counting

X Liu, J Yang, W Ding, T Wang, Z Wang… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
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 …

The visual social distancing problem

M Cristani, A Del Bue, V Murino, F Setti… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main and most effective measures to contain the recent viral outbreak is the
maintenance of the so-called Social Distancing (SD). To comply with this constraint …

Learning spatial awareness to improve crowd counting

ZQ Cheng, JX Li, Q Dai, X Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The aim of crowd counting is to estimate the number of people in images by leveraging the
annotation of center positions for pedestrians' heads. Promising progresses have been …

Decoupled two-stage crowd counting and beyond

J Cheng, H Xiong, Z Cao, H Lu - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of appealing approaches to counting dense objects, such as crowd, is density map
estimation. Density maps, however, present ambiguous appearance cues in congested …

[HTML][HTML] Video analytics using deep learning for crowd analysis: a review

MR Bhuiyan, J Abdullah, N Hashim… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2022 - Springer
Gathering a large number of people in a shared physical area is very common in urban
culture. Although there are limitless examples of mega crowds, the Islamic religious ritual …

Towards using count-level weak supervision for crowd counting

Y Lei, Y Liu, P Zhang, L Liu - Pattern Recognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Most existing crowd counting methods require object location-level annotation which is labor-
intensive and time-consuming to obtain. In contrast, weaker annotations that only label the …