CrowdQuery: Density-Guided Query Module for Enhanced 2D and 3D Detection in Crowded Scenes

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Main Authors: Dähling, Marius, Krebs, Sebastian, Zöllner, J. Marius
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Published: 2025
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author Dähling, Marius
Krebs, Sebastian
Zöllner, J. Marius
author_facet Dähling, Marius
Krebs, Sebastian
Zöllner, J. Marius
contents This paper introduces a novel method for end-to-end crowd detection that leverages object density information to enhance existing transformer-based detectors. We present CrowdQuery (CQ), whose core component is our CQ module that predicts and subsequently embeds an object density map. The embedded density information is then systematically integrated into the decoder. Existing density map definitions typically depend on head positions or object-based spatial statistics. Our method extends these definitions to include individual bounding box dimensions. By incorporating density information into object queries, our method utilizes density-guided queries to improve detection in crowded scenes. CQ is universally applicable to both 2D and 3D detection without requiring additional data. Consequently, we are the first to design a method that effectively bridges 2D and 3D detection in crowded environments. We demonstrate the integration of CQ into both a general 2D and 3D transformer-based object detector, introducing the architectures CQ2D and CQ3D. CQ is not limited to the specific transformer models we selected. Experiments on the STCrowd dataset for both 2D and 3D domains show significant performance improvements compared to the base models, outperforming most state-of-the-art methods. When integrated into a state-of-the-art crowd detector, CQ can further improve performance on the challenging CrowdHuman dataset, demonstrating its generalizability. The code is released at https://github.com/mdaehl/CrowdQuery.
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spellingShingle CrowdQuery: Density-Guided Query Module for Enhanced 2D and 3D Detection in Crowded Scenes
Dähling, Marius
Krebs, Sebastian
Zöllner, J. Marius
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper introduces a novel method for end-to-end crowd detection that leverages object density information to enhance existing transformer-based detectors. We present CrowdQuery (CQ), whose core component is our CQ module that predicts and subsequently embeds an object density map. The embedded density information is then systematically integrated into the decoder. Existing density map definitions typically depend on head positions or object-based spatial statistics. Our method extends these definitions to include individual bounding box dimensions. By incorporating density information into object queries, our method utilizes density-guided queries to improve detection in crowded scenes. CQ is universally applicable to both 2D and 3D detection without requiring additional data. Consequently, we are the first to design a method that effectively bridges 2D and 3D detection in crowded environments. We demonstrate the integration of CQ into both a general 2D and 3D transformer-based object detector, introducing the architectures CQ2D and CQ3D. CQ is not limited to the specific transformer models we selected. Experiments on the STCrowd dataset for both 2D and 3D domains show significant performance improvements compared to the base models, outperforming most state-of-the-art methods. When integrated into a state-of-the-art crowd detector, CQ can further improve performance on the challenging CrowdHuman dataset, demonstrating its generalizability. The code is released at https://github.com/mdaehl/CrowdQuery.
title CrowdQuery: Density-Guided Query Module for Enhanced 2D and 3D Detection in Crowded Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08738