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Improving Point-based Crowd Counting and Localization Based on Auxiliary Point Guidance
I-Hsiang Chen, Wei-Ting Chen, Yu-Wei Liu, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Sy-Yen Kuo
Crowd counting and localization have become increasingly important in computer vision due to their wide-ranging applications. While point-based strategies have been widely used in crowd counting methods, they face a significant challenge, i.e., the lack of an effective learning strategy to guide the matching process. This deficiency leads to instability in matching point proposals to target points, adversely affecting overall performance. To address this issue, we introduce an effective approach to stabilize the proposal-target matching in point-based methods. We propose Auxiliary Point Guidance (APG) to provide clear and effective guidance for proposal selection and optimization, addressing the core issue of matching uncertainty. Additionally, we develop Implicit Feature Interpolation (IFI) to enable adaptive feature extraction in diverse crowd scenarios, further enhancing the model's robustness and accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, showing significant improvements in crowd counting and localization performance, particularly under challenging conditions. The source codes and trained models will be made publicly available.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowd Counting | JHU-CROWD++ | APGCC | MAE | 54.3 | #3 of 3 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | JHU-CROWD++ | APGCC | MSE | 225.9 | #3 of 3 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | NWPU-Crowd | APGCC | MAE | 71.7 | #1 of 1 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | NWPU-Crowd | APGCC | MSE | 284.4 | #1 of 1 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | ShanghaiTech A | APGCC | MAE | 48.8 | #2 of 35 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | ShanghaiTech A | APGCC | MSE | 76.7 | #2 of 35 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | ShanghaiTech B | APGCC | MAE | 8.7 | #19 of 32 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | UCF CC 50 | APGCC | MAE | 154.8 | #1 of 22 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | UCF CC 50 | APGCC | MSE | 205.5 | #1 of 22 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | UCF-QNRF | APGCC | MAE | 80.1 | #6 of 23 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Crowd Counting | UCF-QNRF | APGCC | MSE | 136.6 | #6 of 23 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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