Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 32, Issue 22, 3395(2024)

Crowd counting method based on dense connection attention and scale perception recombination enhancement

Yong CHEN1,2、*, Ke DONG1, Zhuoaobo AN1, and Jianyu ZHOU1
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou730070, China
  • 2Gansu Provincial Engineering Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Graphics&Image Processing, Lanzhou730070, China
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    Received: Apr. 20, 2024

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    Published Online: Mar. 10, 2025

    The Author Email: Yong CHEN (edukeylab@126.com)

    DOI:10.37188/OPE.20243222.3395

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