Description

UCF_CC_50 (Idrees et al.) is an image-based crowd-counting dataset of 50 challenging high-density crowd images sourced from the web. It was the first benchmark designed explicitly to cover a wide range of densities and diverse scenes with strong perspective distortion, and is typically evaluated with five-fold cross-validation due to its small size.

Modality / size

  • Modality: still RGB images with per-head annotations.
  • Subjects / scenarios: 50 images of dense crowds (concerts, protests, stadiums, religious gatherings).
  • Labels: head dot annotations and density maps.

Used by (papers)

  • Standard small-but-dense benchmark, almost always paired with ShanghaiTech and WorldExpo '10.
  • Five-fold cross-validation protocol is the convention.

Notes

  • Public dataset; UCF Computer Vision lab release.

2 vault papers evaluate on this dataset

Titles and DOIs only — no abstracts, no analyses.

  • A survey of recent advances in CNN-based single image crowd counting and density estimation 2018 DOI ↗
  • Constructing WiFi-Video-Fused Multi-Modal Synthetic Datasets for Crowd Counting 2025 DOI ↗