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Multi-Granularity Distribution Alignment for Cross-Domain Crowd Counting
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DOI：10.1109/TIP.2025.3571312.png)
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Unsupervised domain adaptation enables the transfer of knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, and its application in crowd counting is gaining momentum. Current methods typically align distributions across domains to address inter-domain disparities at a global level. However, these methods often struggle with significant intra-domain gaps caused by domain-agnostic factors such as density, surveillance angles, and scale, leading to inaccurate alignment and unnecessary computational burdens, especially in large-scale training scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose the Multi-Granularity Optimal Transport (MGOT) distribution alignment framework, which aligns domain-agnostic factors across domains at different granularities. The motivation behind multi-granularity is to capture fine-grained domain-agnostic variations within domains. Our method proceeds in three phases: first, clustering coarse-grained features based on intra-domain similarity; second, aligning the granular clusters using an optimal transport framework and constructing a mapping from cluster centers to finer patch levels between domains; and third, re-weighting the aligned distribution for model refinement in domain adaptation. Extensive experiments across twelve cross-domain benchmarks show that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in adaptive crowd counting. The code will be available at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/HopooLinZ/MGOT</uri>
Keywords:
Crowd counting
unsupervised domain adaptation
multi-granularity optimal transport
distribution alignment
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