Object detection and crowd analysis using deep learning techniques: Comprehensive review and future directions

B Ganga, BT Lata, KR Venugopal - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Object detection using deep learning has attracted considerable interest from researchers
because of its competency in performing state-of-the-art tasks, including detection …

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 …

Point-query quadtree for crowd counting, localization, and more

C Liu, H Lu, Z Cao, T Liu - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We show that crowd counting can be viewed as a decomposable point querying process.
This formulation enables arbitrary points as input and jointly reasons whether the points are …

Represent, compare, and learn: A similarity-aware framework for class-agnostic counting

M Shi, H Lu, C Feng, C Liu… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Class-agnostic counting (CAC) aims to count all instances in a query image given few
exemplars. A standard pipeline is to extract visual features from exemplars and match them …

Rice plant counting, locating, and sizing method based on high-throughput UAV RGB images

X Bai, P Liu, Z Cao, H Lu, H **ong, A Yang, Z Cai… - Plant …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Rice plant counting is crucial for many applications in rice production, such as yield
estimation, growth diagnosis, disaster loss assessment, etc. Currently, rice counting still …

Improving deep regression with ordinal entropy

S Zhang, L Yang, MB Mi, X Zheng, A Yao - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In computer vision, it is often observed that formulating regression problems as a
classification task often yields better performance. We investigate this curious phenomenon …

Weighing counts: Sequential crowd counting by reinforcement learning

L Liu, H Lu, H Zou, H **ong, Z Cao, C Shen - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
We formulate counting as a sequential decision problem and present a novel crowd
counting model solvable by deep reinforcement learning. In contrast to existing counting …

Decoupled two-stage crowd counting and beyond

J Cheng, H **ong, 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 …

TasselNetV3: Explainable plant counting with guided upsampling and background suppression

H Lu, L Liu, YN Li, XM Zhao, XQ Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast and accurate plant counting tools affect revolution in modern agriculture. Agricultural
practitioners, however, expect the output of the tools to be not only accurate but also …

TasselNetV2+: A fast implementation for high-throughput plant counting from high-resolution RGB imagery

H Lu, Z Cao - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plant counting runs through almost every stage of agricultural production from seed
breeding, germination, cultivation, fertilization, pollination to yield estimation, and harvesting …