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3D point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in areas such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital twins. The point cloud data collected in real scenes often contain small objects and categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chade Li , Pengju Zhang , Jiaming Zhang , Yihong Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various image segmentation tasks. However, the process of preparing datasets for training segmentation DNNs is both labor-intensive and costly, as it typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yixin Zhang , Shen Zhao , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Modern methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate people densities in individual images. As such, only very few take advantage of temporal consistency in video sequences, and those that do only impose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Recently, the use of synthetic datasets based on game engines has been shown to improve the performance of several tasks in computer vision. However, these datasets are typically only appropriate for the specific domains depicted in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Enric Moreu , Kevin McGuinness , Diego Ortego , Noel E. O'Connor

State-of-the-art methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate crowd density. They typically use the same filters over the whole image or over large image patches. Only then do they estimate local scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Counting cells in fluorescent microscopy is a tedious, time-consuming task that researchers have to accomplish to assess the effects of different experimental conditions on biological structures of interest. Although such objects are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 R. Morelli , L. Clissa , M. Dalla , M. Luppi , L. Rinaldi , A. Zoccoli

Adding Object into images based on text instructions is a challenging task in semantic image editing, requiring a balance between preserving the original scene and seamlessly integrating the new object in a fitting location. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yoad Tewel , Rinon Gal , Dvir Samuel , Yuval Atzmon , Lior Wolf , Gal Chechik

In this paper, we categorize fine-grained images without using any object / part annotation neither in the training nor in the testing stage, a step towards making it suitable for deployments. Fine-grained image categorization aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Yu Zhang , Xiu-shen Wei , Jianxin Wu , Jianfei Cai , Jiangbo Lu , Viet-Anh Nguyen , Minh N. Do

Annotation is a major hurdle in the semantic segmentation of microscopy images and volumes due to its prerequisite expertise and effort. This work enables the training of semantic segmentation networks on images with only a single point for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Shijie Li , Neel Dey , Katharina Bermond , Leon von der Emde , Christine A. Curcio , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

Automated object detection has become increasingly valuable across diverse applications, yet efficient, high-quality annotation remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we present the development and evaluation of a platform designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sönke Tenckhoff , Mario Koddenbrock , Erik Rodner

We propose a new method to count objects of specific categories that are significantly smaller than the ground sampling distance of a satellite image. This task is hard due to the cluttered nature of scenes where different object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Andres C. Rodriguez , Jan D. Wegner

Despite the unprecedented success of text-to-image diffusion models, controlling the number of depicted objects using text is surprisingly hard. This is important for various applications from technical documents, to children's books to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Lital Binyamin , Yoad Tewel , Hilit Segev , Eran Hirsch , Royi Rassin , Gal Chechik

Crowd counting from unconstrained scene images is a crucial task in many real-world applications like urban surveillance and management, but it is greatly challenged by the camera's perspective that causes huge appearance variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Lingbo Liu , Hongjun Wang , Guanbin Li , Wanli Ouyang , Liang Lin

The counting task, which plays a fundamental role in numerous applications (e.g., crowd counting, traffic statistics), aims to predict the number of objects with various densities. Existing object counting tasks are designed for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Shengqin Jiang , Qing Wang , Fengna Cheng , Yuankai Qi , Qingshan Liu

Diffusion models excel at photorealistic synthesis but struggle with precise object counts, especially in high-density settings. We introduce COUNTLOOP, a training-free framework that achieves precise instance control through iterative,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anindya Mondal , Ayan Banerjee , Sauradip Nag , Josep Llados , Xiatian Zhu , Anjan Dutta

Humans can often count unfamiliar objects by observing visual repetition and composition, rather than relying only on object categories. However, many exemplar-free counting models struggle in such situations and may overcount when objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Md Tanvir Hossain , Akif Islam , Mohd Ruhul Ameen

Automatic image annotation is one of the most challenging problems in machine vision areas. The goal of this task is to predict number of keywords automatically for images captured in real data. Many methods are based on visual features in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Neda Pourali

This paper proposes an adaptive auxiliary task learning based approach for object counting problems. Unlike existing auxiliary task learning based methods, we develop an attention-enhanced adaptively shared backbone network to enable both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Yanda Meng , Joshua Bridge , Meng Wei , Yitian Zhao , Yihong Qiao , Xiaoyun Yang , Xiaowei Huang , Yalin Zheng

Sketches, with their expressive potential, allow humans to convey the essence of an object through even a rough contour. For the first time, we harness this expressive potential to improve segmentation performance in challenging tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Ying Zang , Runlong Cao , Jianqi Zhang , Yidong Han , Ziyue Cao , Wenjun Hu , Didi Zhu , Lanyun Zhu , Zejian Li , Deyi Ji , Tianrun Chen

Recent advances in data-centric artificial intelligence highlight inherent limitations in object recognition datasets. One of the primary issues stems from the semantic gap problem, which results in complex many-to-many mappings between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xiaolei Diao , Fausto Giunchiglia