HA-CCN: Hierarchical Attention-Based Crowd Counting Network

Single image-based crowd counting has recently witnessed increased focus, but many leading methods are far from optimal, especially in highly congested scenes. In this paper, we present the Hierarchical Attention-based Crowd Counting Network (HA-CCN) that employs attention mechanisms at various levels to selectively enhance the features of the network. The proposed method, which is based on the VGG16 network, consists of a spatial attention...