1. Multi-modal Crowd Counting via Modal Emulation
- Author
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Wang, Chenhao, Hong, Xiaopeng, Ma, Zhiheng, Wei, Yupeng, Wang, Yabin, and Fan, Xiaopeng
- Subjects
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Abstract
Multi-modal crowd counting is a crucial task that uses multi-modal cues to estimate the number of people in crowded scenes. To overcome the gap between different modalities, we propose a modal emulation-based two-pass multi-modal crowd-counting framework that enables efficient modal emulation, alignment, and fusion. The framework consists of two key components: a \emph{multi-modal inference} pass and a \emph{cross-modal emulation} pass. The former utilizes a hybrid cross-modal attention module to extract global and local information and achieve efficient multi-modal fusion. The latter uses attention prompting to coordinate different modalities and enhance multi-modal alignment. We also introduce a modality alignment module that uses an efficient modal consistency loss to align the outputs of the two passes and bridge the semantic gap between modalities. Extensive experiments on both RGB-Thermal and RGB-Depth counting datasets demonstrate its superior performance compared to previous methods. Code available at https://github.com/Mr-Monday/Multi-modal-Crowd-Counting-via-Modal-Emulation., Comment: This is the preprint version of the paper to appear in BMVC 2024. Please cite the final published version. Code is available at https://github.com/Mr-Monday/Multi-modal-Crowd-Counting-via-Modal-Emulation
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- 2024