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The class-agnostic counting (CAC) problem has caught increasing attention recently due to its wide societal applications and arduous challenges. To count objects of different categories, existing approaches rely on user-provided exemplars,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Mingjie Wang , Yande Li , Jun Zhou , Graham W. Taylor , Minglun Gong

Class-agnostic counting (CAC) aims to count objects of interest from a query image given few exemplars. This task is typically addressed by extracting the features of query image and exemplars respectively and then matching their feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhicheng Wang , Liwen Xiao , Zhiguo Cao , Hao Lu

The class-agnostic counting (CAC) task has recently been proposed to solve the problem of counting all objects of an arbitrary class with several exemplars given in the input image. To address this challenging task, existing leading methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hefeng Wu , Yandong Chen , Lingbo Liu , Tianshui Chen , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

Class agnostic counting (CAC) is a vision task that can be used to count the total occurrence number of any given reference objects in the query image. The task is usually formulated as a density map estimation problem through similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tsung-Han Chou , Brian Wang , Wei-Chen Chiu , Jun-Cheng Chen

Class-Agnostic Counting (CAC) seeks to accurately count objects in a given image with only a few reference examples. While previous methods achieving this relied on additional training, recent efforts have shown that it's possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuhao Lin , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Class-agnostic counting methods enumerate objects of an arbitrary class, providing tremendous utility in many fields. Prior works have limited usefulness as they require either a set of examples of the type to be counted or that the query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Michael A. Hobley , Victor A. Prisacariu

Visual object counting has recently shifted towards class-agnostic counting (CAC), which addresses the challenge of counting objects across arbitrary categories, a crucial capability for flexible and generalizable counting systems. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Luca Ciampi , Ali Azmoudeh , Elif Ecem Akbaba , Erdi Sarıtaş , Ziya Ata Yazıcı , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Class-agnostic counting (CAC) aims to estimate the number of objects in images without being restricted to predefined categories. However, while current exemplar-based CAC methods offer flexibility at inference time, they still rely heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Giacomo Pacini , Lorenzo Bianchi , Luca Ciampi , Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Nearly all existing counting methods are designed for a specific object class. Our work, however, aims to create a counting model able to count any class of object. To achieve this goal, we formulate counting as a matching problem, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Erika Lu , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Collaborative Filtering (CF) based recommendation methods have been widely studied, which can be generally categorized into two types, i.e., representation learning-based CF methods and matching function learning-based CF methods.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi-Yuan Hu , Jin Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Chang-Dong Wang , Ling Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Class-agnostic counting (CAC) has numerous potential applications across various domains. The goal is to count objects of an arbitrary category during testing, based on only a few annotated exemplars. In this paper, we point out that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Class-Agnostic object Counting (CAC) involves counting instances of objects from arbitrary classes within an image. Due to its practical importance, CAC has received increasing attention in recent years. Most existing methods assume a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Michail Spanakis , Iason Oikonomidis , Antonis Argyros

Cross-modality recognition has many important applications in science, law enforcement and entertainment. Popular methods to bridge the modality gap include reducing the distributional differences of representations of different modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xin Niu , Enyi Li , Jinchao Liu , Yan Wang , Margarita Osadchy , Yongchun Fang

We propose a novel framework for interactive class-agnostic object counting, where a human user can interactively provide feedback to improve the accuracy of a counter. Our framework consists of two main components: a user-friendly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yifeng Huang , Viresh Ranjan , Minh Hoai

Handling class imbalance remains a central challenge in machine learning, particularly in pattern recognition tasks where identifying rare but critical anomalies is of paramount importance. Traditional generative models often decouple data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hanbeot Park , Yunjeong Cho , Hunhee Kim

In class-agnostic object counting, the goal is to estimate the total number of object instances in an image without distinguishing between specific categories. Existing methods often predict this count without considering class-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Huilin Zhu , Jingling Yuan , Zhengwei Yang , Yu Guo , Xian Zhong , Shengfeng He

Object counting has progressed from class-specific models, which count only known categories, to class-agnostic models that generalize to unseen categories. The next challenge is Referring Expression Counting (REC), where the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kostas Triaridis , Panagiotis Kaliosis , E-Ro Nguyen , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

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

We tackle the task of Class Agnostic Counting, which aims to count objects in a novel object category at test time without any access to labeled training data for that category. All previous class agnostic counting methods cannot work in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Viresh Ranjan , Minh Hoai

Learning with few labeled data is a key challenge for visual recognition, as deep neural networks tend to overfit using a few samples only. One of the Few-shot learning methods called metric learning addresses this challenge by first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Li Ke , Meng Pan , Weigao Wen , Dong Li
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