Deep Rank-Consistent Pyramid Model for Enhanced Crowd Counting
Fudan University（复旦大学）；Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology（上海脑科学与类脑研究中心）；The Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；Macau University of Science and Technology（澳门科技大学）；Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries（青岛智能产业技术研究院）
Jiaqi Gao, Zhizhong Huang, Yiming Lei, Hongming Shan, James Z. Wang, Fei-Yue Wang, Junping Zhang
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Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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 annotations for training supervision. One way to mitigate the intensive labeling effort and improve counting accuracy is to leverage large amounts of unlabeled images. This is attributed to the inherent self-structural information and rank consistency within a single image, offering additional qualitative relation supervision during training. Contrary to earlier methods that utilized the rank relations at the original image level, we explore such rank-consistency relation within the latent feature spaces. This approach enables the incorporation of numerous pyramid partial orders, strengthening the model representation capability. A notable advantage is that it can also increase the utilization ratio of unlabeled samples. Specifically, we propose a Deep Rank-consistEnt pyrAmid Model (DREAM), which makes full use of rank consistency across coarse-to-fine pyramid features in latent spaces for enhanced crowd counting with massive unlabeled images. In addition, we have collected a new unlabeled crowd counting dataset, FUDAN-UCC, comprising 4,000 images for training purposes. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets, namely UCF-QNRF, ShanghaiTech PartA and PartB, and UCF-CC-50, show the effectiveness of our method compared with previous semi-supervised methods. The codes are available at https://github.com/bridgeqiqi/DREAM.
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（国立阳明交通大学）；University at Albany, State University of New York（纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校）
We develop a Synthetic Fusion Pyramid Network (SPF-Net) with a scale-aware loss function design for accurate crowd counting. Existing crowd-counting methods assume that the training annotation points were accurate and thus ignore the fact that noisy annotations can lead to large model-learning bias and counting error, especially for counting highly dense crowds that appear far away. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to properly handle such noise at multiple scales in end-to-end loss design and thus push the crowd counting state-of-the-art. We model the noise of crowd annotat…
University of Chinese Academy of Science（中国科学院大学）；Australian Institute for Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学澳大利亚机器学习研究所）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；University of California, Merced（加州大学默塞德分校）；University of Trento（特伦托大学）
Crowd localization aims to predict the spatial position of humans in a crowd scenario. We observe that the performance of existing methods is challenged from two aspects: (i) ranking inconsistency between test and training phases; and (ii) fixed anchor resolution may underfit or overfit crowd densities of local regions. To address these problems, we design a supervision target reassignment strategy for training to reduce ranking inconsistency and propose an anchor pyramid scheme to adaptively determine the anchor density in each image region. Extensive experimental results on three widely adop…
University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；CSIRO Data61（澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织Data61）；Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）
Crowd counting, i.e., estimating the number of people in a crowded area, has attracted much interest in the research community. Although many attempts have been reported, crowd counting remains an open real-world problem due to the vast scale variations in crowd density within the interested area, and severe occlusion among the crowd. In this paper, we propose a novel Pyramid Density-Aware Attention-based network, abbreviated as PDANet, that leverages the attention, pyramid scale feature and two branch decoder modules for density-aware crowd counting. The PDANet utilizes these modules to extra…
Ingenuity Labs Research Institute, Queen's University（女王大学智慧实验室研究所）
We propose a multitask approach for crowd counting and person localization in a unified framework. As the detection and localization tasks are well-correlated and can be jointly tackled, our model benefits from a multitask solution by learning multiscale representations of encoded crowd images, and subsequently fusing them. In contrast to the relatively more popular density-based methods, our model uses point supervision to allow for crowd locations to be accurately identified. We test our model on two popular crowd counting datasets, ShanghaiTech A and B, and demonstrate that our method achie…
University of Guelph（圭尔夫大学）；Memorial University of Newfoundland（纽芬兰纪念大学）；Dalian Maritime University（大连海事大学）
Existing state-of-the-art crowd counting algorithms rely excessively on location-level annotations, which are burdensome to acquire. When only count-level (weak) supervisory signals are available, it is arduous and error-prone to regress total counts due to the lack of explicit spatial constraints. To address this issue, a novel and efficient counter (referred to as CrowdMLP) is presented, which probes into modelling global dependencies of embeddings and regressing total counts by devising a multi-granularity MLP regressor. In specific, a locally-focused pre-trained frontend is cascaded to ext…
Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）；Pazhou Lab（琶洲实验室）；Anhui University（安徽大学）；DarkMatter AI Research（DarkMatter AI 研究院）
Crowd counting is a fundamental yet challenging task, which desires rich information to generate pixel-wise crowd density maps. However, most previous methods only used the limited information of RGB images and cannot well discover potential pedestrians in unconstrained scenarios. In this work, we find that incorporating optical and thermal information can greatly help to recognize pedestrians. To promote future researches in this field, we introduce a large-scale RGBT Crowd Counting (RGBT-CC) benchmark, which contains 2,030 pairs of RGB-thermal images with 138,389 annotated people. Furthermor…
Beijing University of Technology（北京工业大学）；China Agricultural University（中国农业大学）；JD Finance America Corporation（京东金融美国公司）
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 optimal. In this paper, we propose a multi-level attentive Convolutional Neural Network (MLAttnCNN) for crowd counting. We extract high-level contextual information with multiple different scales applied in pooling, and use multi-level attention modules to enrich the characteristics at different layers to achieve more efficient multi-scale feature fusion, whic…
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Fudan University（复旦大学）；Xidian University（西安电子科技大学）；Guangzhou Institute of Technology（广州研究院）；Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；Protagolabs（Protagolabs公司）；Microsoft Research（微软研究院）；Lehigh University（里海大学）
Crowd counting is a regression task that estimates the number of people in a scene image, which plays a vital role in a range of safety-critical applications, such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring and flow control. In this paper, we investigate the vulnerability of deep learning based crowd counting models to backdoor attacks, a major security threat to deep learning. A backdoor attack implants a backdoor trigger into a target model via data poisoning so as to control the model's predictions at test time. Different from image classification models on which most of existing backdoor at…
We present a novel method called Contextual Pyramid CNN (CP-CNN) for generating high-quality crowd density and count estimation by explicitly incorporating global and local contextual information of crowd images. The proposed CP-CNN consists of four modules: Global Context Estimator (GCE), Local Context Estimator (LCE), Density Map Estimator (DME) and a Fusion-CNN (F-CNN). GCE is a VGG-16 based CNN that encodes global context and it is trained to classify input images into different density classes, whereas LCE is another CNN that encodes local context information and it is trained to perform …
University of Guelph（圭尔夫大学）；Memorial University of Newfoundland（纽芬兰纪念大学）；Southwest University（西南大学）；Dalian Maritime University（大连海事大学）
Crowd counting remains a challenging task because the presence of drastic scale variation, density inconsistency, and complex background can seriously degrade the counting accuracy. To battle the ingrained issue of accuracy degradation, we propose a novel and powerful network called Scale Tree Network (STNet) for accurate crowd counting. STNet consists of two key components: a Scale-Tree Diversity Enhancer and a Semi-supervised Multi-level Auxiliator. Specifically, the Diversity Enhancer is designed to enrich scale diversity, which alleviates limitations of existing methods caused by insuffici…
Crowd counting is an effective tool for situational awareness in public places. Automated crowd counting using images and videos is an interesting yet challenging problem that has gained significant attention in computer vision. Over the past few years, various deep learning methods have been developed to achieve state-of-the-art performance. The methods evolved over time vary in many aspects such as model architecture, input pipeline, learning paradigm, computational complexity, and accuracy gains etc. In this paper, we present a systematic and comprehensive review of the most significant con…
Crowd counting aims to predict the number of people and generate the density map in the image. There are many challenges, including varying head scales, the diversity of crowd distribution across images and cluttered backgrounds. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale context aggregation network (MSCANet) based on single-column encoder-decoder architecture for crowd counting, which consists of an encoder based on a dense context-aware module (DCAM) and a hierarchical attention-guided decoder. To handle the issue of scale variation, we construct the DCAM to aggregate multi-scale contextual inf…
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Osaka University（大阪大学信息科学与技术研究生院）；Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research Osaka University（大阪大学科学与工业研究所）；Department of Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering Chulalongkorn University（朱拉隆功大学工程学院计算机工程系）
In this paper, we propose two modified neural networks based on dual path multi-scale fusion networks (SFANet) and SegNet for accurate and efficient crowd counting. Inspired by SFANet, the first model, which is named M-SFANet, is attached with atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) and context-aware module (CAN). The encoder of M-SFANet is enhanced with ASPP containing parallel atrous convolutional layers with different sampling rates and hence able to extract multi-scale features of the target object and incorporate larger context. To further deal with scale variation throughout an input image…
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)（洛桑联邦理工学院）
State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. While effective, these data-driven approaches rely on large amount of data annotation to achieve good performance, which stops these models from being deployed in emergencies during which data annotation is either too costly or cannot be obtained fast enough. One popular solution is to use synthetic data for training. Unfortunately, due to domain shift, the resulting models generalize poorly on real imagery. We remedy this shortcoming by training with both synthetic images, along wit…
Fudan University（复旦大学）；Xiamen University（厦门大学）；The Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）；Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院）
Crowd counting has important applications in public safety and pandemic control. A robust and practical crowd counting system has to be capable of continuously learning with the new incoming domain data in real-world scenarios instead of fitting one domain only. Off-the-shelf methods have some drawbacks when handling multiple domains: (1) the models will achieve limited performance (even drop dramatically) among old domains after training images from new domains due to the discrepancies of intrinsic data distributions from various domains, which is called catastrophic forgetting; (2) the well-…
University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院慈溪生物医学工程研究所）；Remark AI UK Limited（Remark AI英国有限公司）；China Science IntelliCloud Technology Co., Ltd（中科智云科技有限公司）
Semi-supervised approaches for crowd counting attract attention, as the fully supervised paradigm is expensive and laborious due to its request for a large number of images of dense crowd scenarios and their annotations. This paper proposes a spatial uncertainty-aware semi-supervised approach via regularized surrogate task (binary segmentation) for crowd counting problems. Different from existing semi-supervised learning-based crowd counting methods, to exploit the unlabeled data, our proposed spatial uncertainty-aware teacher-student framework focuses on high confident regions' information wh…
National Engineering Laboratory for Video Technology, Peking University（北京大学视频技术国家工程实验室）；Key Lab of Petroleum Data Mining, China University of Petroleum (Beijing)（中国石油大学（北京）石油数据挖掘重点实验室）
In the field of crowd counting, the current mainstream CNN-based regression methods simply extract the density information of pedestrians without finding the position of each person. This makes the output of the network often found to contain incorrect responses, which may erroneously estimate the total number and not conducive to the interpretation of the algorithm. To this end, we propose a Bi-Branch Attention Network (BBA-NET) for crowd counting, which has three innovation points. i) A two-branch architecture is used to estimate the density information and location information separately. i…
Object counting, which aims to count the accurate number of object instances in images, has been attracting more and more attention. However, challenges such as large scale variation, complex background interference, and non-uniform density distribution greatly limit the counting accuracy, particularly striking in remote sensing imagery. To mitigate the above issues, this paper proposes a novel framework for dense object counting in remote sensing images, which incorporates a pyramidal scale module (PSM) and a global context module (GCM), dubbed PSGCNet, where PSM is used to adaptively capture…
Crowd counting from a single image is a challenging task due to high appearance similarity, perspective changes and severe congestion. Many methods only focus on the local appearance features and they cannot handle the aforementioned challenges. In order to tackle them, we propose a Perspective Crowd Counting Network (PCC Net), which consists of three parts: 1) Density Map Estimation (DME) focuses on learning very local features for density map estimation; 2) Random High-level Density Classification (R-HDC) extracts global features to predict the coarse density labels of random patches in imag…
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology（孟加拉国工程技术大学）
Crowd counting problem that counts the number of people in an image has been extensively studied in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a new variant of crowd counting problem, namely "Categorized Crowd Counting", that counts the number of people sitting and standing in a given image. Categorized crowd counting has many real-world applications such as crowd monitoring, customer service, and resource management. The major challenges in categorized crowd counting come from high occlusion, perspective distortion and the seemingly identical upper body posture of sitting and standing persons.…
Aimetis Corp.（艾梅蒂斯公司）；University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学）
The problem of automated crowd segmentation and counting has garnered significant interest in the field of video surveillance. This paper proposes a novel scene invariant crowd segmentation and counting algorithm designed with high accuracy yet low computational complexity in mind, which is key for widespread industrial adoption. A novel low-complexity, scale-normalized feature called Histogram of Moving Gradients (HoMG) is introduced for highly effective spatiotemporal representation of individuals and crowds within a video. Real-time crowd segmentation is achieved via boosted cascade of weak…
TCFormer: A 5M-Parameter Transformer with Density-Guided Aggregation for Weakly-Supervised Crowd Counting
College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Dalian Minzu University（大连民族大学机械与电子工程学院）；Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；Postdoctoral workstation of Dalian Rijia Electronics Co., Ltd.（大连瑞嘉电子有限公司博士后工作站）；School of Computer Science and Engineering, Dalian Minzu University（大连民族大学计算机科学与工程学院）；R&D Department of Dalian Rijia Electronics Co., Ltd.（大连瑞嘉电子有限公司研发部）
Compared with single image based crowd counting, video provides the spatial-temporal information of the crowd that would help improve the robustness of crowd counting. But translation, rotation and scaling of people lead to the change of density map of heads between neighbouring frames. Meanwhile, people walking in/out or being occluded in dynamic scenes leads to the change of head counts. To alleviate these issues in video crowd counting, a Locality-constrained Spatial Transformer Network (LSTN) is proposed. Specifically, we first leverage a Convolutional Neural Networks to estimate the densi…
This paper proposes a crowd counting method. Crowd counting is difficult because of large appearance changes of a target which caused by density and scale changes. Conventional crowd counting methods generally utilize one predictor (e,g., regression and multi-class classifier). However, such only one predictor can not count targets with large appearance changes well. In this paper, we propose to predict the number of targets using multiple CNNs specialized to a specific appearance, and those CNNs are adaptively selected according to the appearance of a test image. By integrating the selected C…
Fully-supervised crowd counting is a laborious task due to the large amounts of annotations. Few works focus on weekly-supervised crowd counting, where only the global crowd numbers are available for training. The main challenge of weekly-supervised crowd counting is the lack of local supervision information. To address this problem, we propose a self-adaptive feature similarity learning (SFSL) network and a global-local consistency (GLC) loss to reinforce local feature representation. We introduce a feature vector which represents the unbiased feature estimation of persons. The network update…
Because of the powerful learning capability of deep neural networks, counting performance via density map estimation has improved significantly during the past several years. However, it is still very challenging due to severe occlusion, large scale variations, and perspective distortion. Scale variations (from image to image) coupled with perspective distortion (within one image) result in huge scale changes of the object size. Earlier methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) typically did not handle this scale variation explicitly, until Hydra-CNN and MCNN. MCNN uses three column…
Baidu Research（百度研究院）；German Aerospace Center（德国航空航天中心）；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）
Visual crowd counting has been recently studied as a way to enable people counting in crowd scenes from images. Albeit successful, vision-based crowd counting approaches could fail to capture informative features in extreme conditions, e.g., imaging at night and occlusion. In this work, we introduce a novel task of audiovisual crowd counting, in which visual and auditory information are integrated for counting purposes. We collect a large-scale benchmark, named auDiovISual Crowd cOunting (DISCO) dataset, consisting of 1,935 images and the corresponding audio clips, and 170,270 annotated instan…
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)（洛桑联邦理工学院）
State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. While effective, deep learning approaches are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which, in a crowd-counting context, can lead to serious security issues. However, attack and defense mechanisms have been virtually unexplored in regression tasks, let alone for crowd density estimation. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of existing attack strategies on crowd-counting networks, and introduce a simple yet effective pixel-wise detection mechanism. It builds on the intuition t…
Computer Vision Center（计算机视觉中心）；MICC, University of Florence（佛罗伦萨大学MICC）
We propose a novel crowd counting approach that leverages abundantly available unlabeled crowd imagery in a learning-to-rank framework. To induce a ranking of cropped images , we use the observation that any sub-image of a crowded scene image is guaranteed to contain the same number or fewer persons than the super-image. This allows us to address the problem of limited size of existing datasets for crowd counting. We collect two crowd scene datasets from Google using keyword searches and query-by-example image retrieval, respectively. We demonstrate how to efficiently learn from these unlabele…
Insight Centre for Data Analytics（数据洞察中心）；Dublin City University（都柏林城市大学）
In this paper we propose ResnetCrowd, a deep residual architecture for simultaneous crowd counting, violent behaviour detection and crowd density level classification. To train and evaluate the proposed multi-objective technique, a new 100 image dataset referred to as Multi Task Crowd is constructed. This new dataset is the first computer vision dataset fully annotated for crowd counting, violent behaviour detection and density level classification. Our experiments show that a multi-task approach boosts individual task performance for all tasks and most notably for violent behaviour detection …
The mainstream crowd counting methods regress density map and integrate it to obtain counting results. Since the density representation to one head accords to its adjacent distribution, it embeds the same category objects with variant values, while human beings counting models the invariant features namely similarity to objects. Inspired by this, we propose a rational and anthropoid crowd counting framework. To begin with, we leverage counting scalar as supervision signal, which provides global and implicit guidance to similar matters. Then, the large kernel CNN is utilized to imitate the para…
East China Normal University（华东师范大学）；Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, CAS（中国科学院上海高等研究院）；Videt Tech.（Videt科技公司）
Crowd counting, i.e., estimation number of the pedestrian in crowd images, is emerging as an important research problem with the public security applications. A key component for the crowd counting systems is the construction of counting models which are robust to various scenarios under facts such as camera perspective and physical barriers. In this paper, we present an adaptive scenario discovery framework for crowd counting. The system is structured with two parallel pathways that are trained with different sizes of the receptive field to represent different scales and crowd densities. Afte…
Fine-grained Domain Adaptive Crowd Counting via Point-derived Segmentation
South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；University of Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Singapore Management University（新加坡管理大学）
East China Normal University（华东师范大学）；Jilian Technology Group (Video++)（极链科技集团（Video++））；Videt Tech Ltd.（维视科技有限公司）
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 effectively apply the crowd counting technique to video content has become an urgent problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework based on temporal aware modeling of the relationship between video frames. The proposed network contains a few dilated residual blocks, and each of them consists of the layers that compute the temporal convolutions of feat…
In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective crowd counting and localization network named SCALNet. Unlike most existing works that separate the counting and localization tasks, we consider those tasks as a pixel-wise dense prediction problem and integrate them into an end-to-end framework. Specifically, for crowd counting, we adopt a counting head supervised by the Mean Square Error (MSE) loss. For crowd localization, the key insight is to recognize the keypoint of people, i.e., the center point of heads. We propose a localization head to distinguish dense crowds trained by two loss funct…
In this paper, we describe our study on how humans allocate their attention during visual crowd counting. Using an eye tracker, we collect gaze behavior of human participants who are tasked with counting the number of people in crowd images. Analyzing the collected gaze behavior of ten human participants on thirty crowd images, we observe some common approaches for visual counting. For an image of a small crowd, the approach is to enumerate over all people or groups of people in the crowd, and this explains the high level of similarity between the fixation density maps of different human parti…
In this paper, we consider the problem of crowd counting in images. Given an image of a crowded scene, our goal is to estimate the density map of this image, where each pixel value in the density map corresponds to the crowd density at the corresponding location in the image. Given the estimated density map, the final crowd count can be obtained by summing over all values in the density map. One challenge of crowd counting is the scale variation in images. In this work, we propose a novel scale-aware attention network to address this challenge. Using the attention mechanism popular in recent d…
Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Hangzhou Innovation Institute, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学杭州创新研究院）；Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）
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 public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is particularly prominent due to its specific significance to social security and development. Fortunately, the development of the techniques for crowd counting can be generalized to other related fields such as vehicle counting and environment survey, if without taking their characteristics into account. Therefore, many researchers are devoting to crowd countin…
Fudan University（复旦大学）；The Pennsylvania State University（宾夕法尼亚州立大学）
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 utilize pan-density information. We propose a novel framework, the Pan-Density Network (PaDNet), for pan-density crowd counting. In order to effectively capture pan-density information, PaDNet has a novel module, the Density-Aware Network (DAN), that contains multiple sub-networks pretrained on scenarios with different densities. Further, a module named the …
University of Manitoba（曼尼托巴大学）；Simon Fraser University（西蒙菲莎大学）；University of Waterloo（滑铁卢大学）；Huawei Technologies Canada（华为加拿大公司）
We address the problem of image-based crowd counting. In particular, we propose a new problem called unlabeled scene-adaptive crowd counting. Given a new target scene, we would like to have a crowd counting model specifically adapted to this particular scene based on the target data that capture some information about the new scene. In this paper, we propose to use one or more unlabeled images from the target scene to perform the adaptation. In comparison with the existing problem setups (e.g. fully supervised), our proposed problem setup is closer to the real-world applications of crowd count…
JPEG image compression algorithm is a widely used technique for image size reduction in edge and cloud computing settings. However, applying such lossy compression on images processed by deep neural networks can lead to significant accuracy degradation. Inspired by the curriculum learning paradigm, we propose a training approach called curriculum pre-training (CPT) for crowd counting on compressed images, which alleviates the drop in accuracy resulting from lossy compression. We verify the effectiveness of our approach by extensive experiments on three crowd counting datasets, two crowd counti…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院）
Crowd counting is a challenging task due to the issues such as scale variation and perspective variation in real crowd scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel Cascaded Residual Density Network (CRDNet) in a coarse-to-fine approach to generate the high-quality density map for crowd counting more accurately. (1) We estimate the residual density maps by multi-scale pyramidal features through cascaded residual density modules. It can improve the quality of density map layer by layer effectively. (2) A novel additional local count loss is presented to refine the accuracy of crowd counting, which …
Crowd counting in single-view images has achieved outstanding performance on existing counting datasets. However, single-view counting is not applicable to large and wide scenes (e.g., public parks, long subway platforms, or event spaces) because a single camera cannot capture the whole scene in adequate detail for counting, e.g., when the scene is too large to fit into the field-of-view of the camera, too long so that the resolution is too low on faraway crowds, or when there are too many large objects that occlude large portions of the crowd. Therefore, to solve the wide-area counting task r…
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 inverse attention mechanism into the counting network, resulting in significant improvements. The proposed method, which is based on VGG-16, is a single-step training framework and is simple to implement. The use of segmentation information results in minimal computational overhead and does not require any additional annotations. We demonstrate the significanc…
University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；CSIRO Data61（澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织数据61所）
Crowd counting, for estimating the number of people in a crowd using vision-based computer techniques, has attracted much interest in the research community. Although many attempts have been reported, real-world problems, such as huge variation in subjects' sizes in images and serious occlusion among people, make it still a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Counting Convolutional Neural Network (A-CCNN) and consider the scale variation of objects in a frame adaptively so as to improve the accuracy of counting. Our method takes advantages of contextual information to pr…
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 only focus on the differences between the crowd numbers and the global summation of density maps, which indicate the inconsistency between the training targets and the evaluation criteria. To solve this problem, we introduce a new target, named local counting map (LCM), to obtain more accurate results than density map based approaches. Moreover, we also propo…
Peking University（北京大学）；China University of Petroleum (Beijing)（中国石油大学（北京））
In this article, we propose a simulated crowd counting dataset CrowdX, which has a large scale, accurate labeling, parameterized realization, and high fidelity. The experimental results of using this dataset as data enhancement show that the performance of the proposed streamlined and efficient benchmark network ESA-Net can be improved by 8.4\%. The other two classic heterogeneous architectures MCNN and CSRNet pre-trained on CrowdX also show significant performance improvements. Considering many influencing factors determine performance, such as background, camera angle, human density, and res…
Traditional crowd counting approaches usually use Gaussian assumption to generate pseudo density ground truth, which suffers from problems like inaccurate estimation of the Gaussian kernel sizes. In this paper, we propose a new measure-based counting approach to regress the predicted density maps to the scattered point-annotated ground truth directly. First, crowd counting is formulated as a measure matching problem. Second, we derive a semi-balanced form of Sinkhorn divergence, based on which a Sinkhorn counting loss is designed for measure matching. Third, we propose a self-supervised mechan…
Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications（重庆邮电大学）；Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）
In real-world crowd counting applications, the crowd densities vary greatly in spatial and temporal domains. A detection based counting method will estimate crowds accurately in low density scenes, while its reliability in congested areas is downgraded. A regression based approach, on the other hand, captures the general density information in crowded regions. Without knowing the location of each person, it tends to overestimate the count in low density areas. Thus, exclusively using either one of them is not sufficient to handle all kinds of scenes with varying densities. To address this issu…
East China Normal University（华东师范大学）；Jiangxi Normal University（江西师范大学）
Crowd counting is an important task that shown great application value in public safety-related fields, which has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In the current research, the accuracy of counting numbers and crowd density estimation are the main concerns. Although the emergence of deep learning has greatly promoted the development of this field, crowd counting under cluttered background is still a serious challenge. In order to solve this problem, we propose a ScaleAware Crowd Counting Network (SACCN) with regional and semantic attentions. The proposed SACCN distinguishes crowd…
Stony Brook University（石溪大学）；University of Central Florida（中佛罗里达大学）
In this paper, we tackle the problem of Crowd Counting, and present a crowd density estimation based approach for obtaining the crowd count. Most of the existing crowd counting approaches rely on local features for estimating the crowd density map. In this work, we investigate the usefulness of combining local with non-local features for crowd counting. We use convolution layers for extracting local features, and a type of self-attention mechanism for extracting non-local features. We combine the local and the non-local features, and use it for estimating crowd density map. We conduct experime…
