Patent 11048948 was granted and assigned to City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on June, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and a method for counting objects includes the steps of: obtaining a plurality of images representing the objects to be counted in a target area; generating a map for each of the plurality of images representing an identification of each of the corresponding objects; and fusing the plurality of maps being generated to obtain a scene-level density map representing a count of the objects in the target area.