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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

Current class-agnostic counting methods can generalise to unseen classes but usually require reference images to define the type of object to be counted, as well as instance annotations during training. Reference-less class-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Michael Hobley , Victor Prisacariu

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

Zero-Shot Classification (ZSC) equips the learned model with the ability to recognize the visual instances from the novel classes via constructing the interactions between the visual and the semantic modalities. In contrast to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhong Ji , Xuejie Yu , Yunlong Yu , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

Zero-shot classification is a generalization task where no instance from the target classes is seen during training. To allow for test-time transfer, each class is annotated with semantic information, commonly in the form of attributes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Tristan Sylvain , Linda Petrini , R Devon Hjelm

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unlabeled objects by leveraging auxiliary knowledge, such as semantic representations. A limitation of previous approaches is that only intrinsic properties of objects, e.g. their visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Eloi Zablocki , Patrick Bordes , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

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

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize objects of novel classes without any training samples of specific classes, which is achieved by exploiting the semantic information and auxiliary datasets. Recently most ZSL approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Huajie Jiang , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Deep learning has significantly improved the precision of instance segmentation with abundant labeled data. However, in many areas like medical and manufacturing, collecting sufficient data is extremely hard and labeling this data requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Ye Zheng , Jiahong Wu , Yongqiang Qin , Faen Zhang , Li Cui

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

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

Previous work on novel object detection considers zero or few-shot settings where none or few examples of each category are available for training. In real world scenarios, it is less practical to expect that 'all' the novel classes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

Classification based on Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) is the ability of a model to classify inputs into novel classes on which the model has not previously seen any training examples. Providing an auxiliary descriptor in the form of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Samuele Ruffino , Geethan Karunaratne , Michael Hersche , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Zero-Shot learning has been shown to be an efficient strategy for domain adaptation. In this context, this paper builds on the recent work of Bucher et al. [1], which proposed an approach to solve Zero-Shot classification problems (ZSC) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

Existing works on visual counting primarily focus on one specific category at a time, such as people, animals, and cells. In this paper, we are interested in counting everything, that is to count objects from any category given only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Viresh Ranjan , Udbhav Sharma , Thu Nguyen , Minh Hoai

This paper addresses the task of learning an image clas-sifier when some categories are defined by semantic descriptions only (e.g. visual attributes) while the others are defined by exemplar images as well. This task is often referred to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Maxime Bucher , Stéphane Herbin , Frédéric Jurie

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) enables solving a task without the need to see its examples. In this paper, we propose two ZSL frameworks that learn to synthesize parameters for novel unseen classes. First, we propose to cast the problem of ZSL as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Boqing Gong , Fei Sha

Object detection models perform well at localizing and classifying objects that they are shown during training. However, due to the difficulty and cost associated with creating and annotating detection datasets, trained models detect a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ayush Jaiswal , Yue Wu , Pradeep Natarajan , Premkumar Natarajan

Zero-shot learning deals with the ability to recognize objects without any visual training sample. To counterbalance this lack of visual data, each class to recognize is associated with a semantic prototype that reflects the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yannick Le Cacheux , Hervé Le Borgne , Michel Crucianu