Pith Number

pith:M4PUITFN

pith:2026:M4PUITFNXZAF7L2Z46DX2F3YPE

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Thermal-Only Crowd Counting with Deployment-Time Privacy Protection

Bowen Deng, Chun Pong Lau, Chun Tong Lei, Michael P. Pound, Xiaopeng Hong, Yifei Qian, Zhongliang Guo

arxiv:2605.17042 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4PUITFNXZAF7L2Z46DX2F3YPE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:03:37.527609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

671f444cadbe405faf59e7877d1778790066e55c596207415491ad5ea39211b0

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17042 · arxiv_version: 2605.17042v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17042 · pith_short_12: M4PUITFNXZAF · pith_short_16: M4PUITFNXZAF7L2Z · pith_short_8: M4PUITFN

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M4PUITFNXZAF7L2Z46DX2F3YPE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 671f444cadbe405faf59e7877d1778790066e55c596207415491ad5ea39211b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd4186fff7da89569b960e5c5d49c642e238578f7ff0f39844de943a4b2e97e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-16T15:21:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab228cdc6cc90cb1c7acbd58d7a9676434c1e0ca4d72fe5e42c61abaa32530ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}