Title
Leveraging Heterogeneous Auxiliary Tasks To Assist Crowd Counting
Abstract
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 challenges mainly by fusing either multi-scale or multi-context features to generate robust representations. In this paper, we propose to address these issues by leveraging the heterogeneous attributes compounded in the density map. We identify three geometric/semantic/numeric attributes essentially important to the density estimation, and demonstrate how to effectively utilize these heterogeneous attributes to assist the crowd counting by formulating them into multiple auxiliary tasks. With the multi-fold regularization effects induced by the auxiliary tasks, the backbone CNN model is driven to embed desired properties explicitly and thus gains robust representations towards more accurate density estimation. Extensive experiments on three challenging crowd counting datasets have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CVPR.2019.01302
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer vision,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Crowd counting
Conference
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.43
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muming Zhao1121.88
Jian Zhang21305100.05
Chongyang Zhang38421.63
Wenjun Zhang41789177.28