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Deep learning methods provide relatively effective solutions but still face problems such as feature extraction difficulties, image multi-scale variations, and high leakage detection rates, which bring great challenges to the research in this field. In this paper, we propose an improved dense pedestrian detection algorithm GR-yolo based on Yolov8. GR-yolo introduces the repc3 module to optimize the backbone network, which enhances the ability of feature extraction, adopts the aggregation\u2013distribution mechanism to reconstruct the yolov8 neck structure, fuses multi-level information, achieves a more efficient exchange of information, and enhances the detection ability of the model. Meanwhile, the Giou loss calculation is used to help GR-yolo converge better, improve the detection accuracy of the target position, and reduce missed detection. Experiments show that GR-yolo has improved detection performance over yolov8, with a 3.1% improvement in detection means accuracy on the wider people dataset, 7.2% on the crowd human dataset, and 11.7% on the people detection images dataset. Therefore, the proposed GR-yolo algorithm is suitable for dense, multi-scale, and scene-variable pedestrian detection, and the improvement also provides a new idea to solve dense pedestrian detection in real scenes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24144747","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,22]],"date-time":"2024-07-22T14:45:53Z","timestamp":1721659553000},"page":"4747","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Dense Pedestrian Detection Based on GR-YOLO"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Nianfeng","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, No. 6543, Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinlu","family":"Bai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, No. 6543, Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2461-5419","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiangfeng","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, No. 6543, Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peizeng","family":"Xin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, No. 6543, Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jia","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, No. 6543, Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tengfei","family":"Chai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, No. 6543, Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenyan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, No. 6543, Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1819","DOI":"10.1109\/TCSVT.2020.3009717","article-title":"A survey of multiple pedestrian tracking based on tracking-by-detection framework","volume":"31","author":"Sun","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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