RepSFNet : A Single Fusion Network with Structural Reparameterization for Crowd Counting

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Main Authors: Achmadiah, Mas Nurul, Sun, Chi-Chia, Kuo, Wen-Kai, Hsieh, Jun-Wei
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author Achmadiah, Mas Nurul
Sun, Chi-Chia
Kuo, Wen-Kai
Hsieh, Jun-Wei
author_facet Achmadiah, Mas Nurul
Sun, Chi-Chia
Kuo, Wen-Kai
Hsieh, Jun-Wei
contents Crowd counting remains challenging in variable-density scenes due to scale variations, occlusions, and the high computational cost of existing models. To address these issues, we propose RepSFNet (Reparameterized Single Fusion Network), a lightweight architecture designed for accurate and real-time crowd estimation. RepSFNet leverages a RepLK-ViT backbone with large reparameterized kernels for efficient multi-scale feature extraction. It further integrates a Feature Fusion module combining Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) and Context-Aware Network (CAN) to achieve robust, density-adaptive context modeling. A Concatenate Fusion module is employed to preserve spatial resolution and generate high-quality density maps. By avoiding attention mechanisms and multi-branch designs, RepSFNet significantly reduces parameters and computational complexity. The training objective combines Mean Squared Error and Optimal Transport loss to improve both count accuracy and spatial distribution alignment. Experiments conducted on ShanghaiTech, NWPU, and UCF-QNRF datasets demonstrate that RepSFNet achieves competitive accuracy while reducing inference latency by up to 34 percent compared to recent state-of-the-art methods, making it suitable for real-time and low-power edge computing applications.
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spellingShingle RepSFNet : A Single Fusion Network with Structural Reparameterization for Crowd Counting
Achmadiah, Mas Nurul
Sun, Chi-Chia
Kuo, Wen-Kai
Hsieh, Jun-Wei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Crowd counting remains challenging in variable-density scenes due to scale variations, occlusions, and the high computational cost of existing models. To address these issues, we propose RepSFNet (Reparameterized Single Fusion Network), a lightweight architecture designed for accurate and real-time crowd estimation. RepSFNet leverages a RepLK-ViT backbone with large reparameterized kernels for efficient multi-scale feature extraction. It further integrates a Feature Fusion module combining Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) and Context-Aware Network (CAN) to achieve robust, density-adaptive context modeling. A Concatenate Fusion module is employed to preserve spatial resolution and generate high-quality density maps. By avoiding attention mechanisms and multi-branch designs, RepSFNet significantly reduces parameters and computational complexity. The training objective combines Mean Squared Error and Optimal Transport loss to improve both count accuracy and spatial distribution alignment. Experiments conducted on ShanghaiTech, NWPU, and UCF-QNRF datasets demonstrate that RepSFNet achieves competitive accuracy while reducing inference latency by up to 34 percent compared to recent state-of-the-art methods, making it suitable for real-time and low-power edge computing applications.
title RepSFNet : A Single Fusion Network with Structural Reparameterization for Crowd Counting
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20369