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DCA-MoE framework enhances crowd counting with adaptive fusion and routing

Researchers have introduced DCA-MoE, a novel framework designed to improve crowd counting accuracy by making feature fusion and expert routing content-dependent. This approach utilizes Spatially Adaptive Layer Fusion (SALF) to dynamically weigh features from different backbone layers and Density-Routed Multi-Receptive-Field Experts (DR-MoE) to select the most appropriate expert for each location. The framework, which retains a frozen DINOv3 encoder, achieved competitive results on the NWPU-Crowd benchmark, demonstrating the potential of adaptive methods in complex visual analysis tasks. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more accurate crowd density estimation in complex visual scenes, benefiting applications in surveillance, urban planning, and event management.

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DCA-MoE framework enhances crowd counting with adaptive fusion and routing

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Hao Wang ·

    DCA-MoE: Spatially Adaptive Cross-Layer Fusion and Density-Routed Experts for Crowd Counting

    Crowd counting must recover reliable local density under severe variations in perspective, head scale, occlusion, and background clutter. Although modern counting objectives provide strong spatial supervision, many multi-level decoders still use spatially invariant feature fusion…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Hao Wang ·

    DCA-MoE: Spatially Adaptive Cross-Layer Fusion and Density-Routed Experts for Crowd Counting

    arXiv:2608.15213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowd counting must recover reliable local density under severe variations in perspective, head scale, occlusion, and background clutter. Although modern counting objectives provide strong spatial supervision, many multi-level decod…