Multi-modal Crowd Counting via a Broker Modality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07518v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:13:11 GMT
• Title: Multi-modal Crowd Counting via a Broker Modality
• Authors: Haoliang Meng, Xiaopeng Hong, Chenhao Wang, Miao Shang, Wangmeng Zuo,
• Abstract summary: Multi-modal crowd counting involves estimating crowd density from both visual and thermal/depth images. We propose a novel approach by introducing an auxiliary broker modality and frame the task as a triple-modal learning problem. We devise a fusion-based method to generate this broker modality, leveraging a non-diffusion, lightweight counterpart of modern denoising diffusion-based fusion models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Multi-modal crowd counting involves estimating crowd density from both visual and thermal/depth images. This task is challenging due to the significant gap between these distinct modalities. In this paper, we propose a novel approach by introducing an auxiliary broker modality and on this basis frame the task as a triple-modal learning problem. We devise a fusion-based method to generate this broker modality, leveraging a non-diffusion, lightweight counterpart of modern denoising diffusion-based fusion models. Additionally, we identify and address the ghosting effect caused by direct cross-modal image fusion in multi-modal crowd counting. Through extensive experimental evaluations on popular multi-modal crowd-counting datasets, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, which introduces only 4 million additional parameters, yet achieves promising results. The code is available at https://github.com/HenryCilence/Broker-Modality-Crowd-Counting.

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