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Expanding pre-trained zero-shot counting models to handle unseen categories requires more than simply adding new prompts, as this approach does not achieve the necessary alignment between text and visual features for accurate counting. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Huilin Zhu , Senyao Li , Jingling Yuan , Zhengwei Yang , Yu Guo , Wenxuan Liu , Xian Zhong , Shengfeng He

In this paper, we consider the problem of generalised visual object counting, with the goal of developing a computational model for counting the number of objects from arbitrary semantic categories, using arbitrary number of "exemplars",…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Chang Liu , Yujie Zhong , Andrew Zisserman , Weidi Xie

This paper provides a framework to hash images containing instances of unknown object classes. In many object recognition problems, we might have access to huge amount of data. It may so happen that even this huge data doesn't cover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Shubham Pachori , Shanmuganathan Raman

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) which aims to recognize unseen classes with no labeled training sample, efficiently tackles the problem of missing labeled data in image retrieval. Nowadays there are mainly two types of popular methods for ZSL to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Gang Yang , Jinlu Liu , Xirong Li

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to classify objects that are not observed or seen during training. It relies on class semantic description to transfer knowledge from the seen classes to the unseen classes. Existing methods of obtaining class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fahimul Hoque Shubho , Townim Faisal Chowdhury , Ali Cheraghian , Morteza Saberi , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Scaling up visual category recognition to large numbers of classes remains challenging. A promising research direction is zero-shot learning, which does not require any training data to recognize new classes, but rather relies on some form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Zeynep Akata , Mateusz Malinowski , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

This paper tackles the problem of object counting in images. Existing approaches rely on extensive training data with point annotations for each object, making data collection labor-intensive and time-consuming. To overcome this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zenglin Shi , Ying Sun , Mengmi Zhang

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

Our objective is open-world object counting in images, where the target object class is specified by a text description. To this end, we propose CounTX, a class-agnostic, single-stage model using a transformer decoder counting head on top…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Niki Amini-Naieni , Kiana Amini-Naieni , Tengda Han , Andrew Zisserman

In an out-of-distribution (OOD) detection problem, samples of known classes(also called in-distribution classes) are used to train a special classifier. In testing, the classifier can (1) classify the test samples of known classes to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Sepideh Esmaeilpour , Bing Liu , Eric Robertson , Lei Shu

Recently, object counting has shifted towards class-agnostic counting (CAC), which counts instances of arbitrary object classes never seen during model training. With advancements in robust vision-and-language foundation models, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Luca Ciampi , Nicola Messina , Matteo Pierucci , Giuseppe Amato , Marco Avvenuti , Fabrizio Falchi

Object detection is considered as one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, since it requires correct prediction of both classes and locations of objects in images. In this study, we define a more difficult scenario, namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Zero-shot classification is a promising paradigm to solve an applicable problem when the training classes and test classes are disjoint. Achieving this usually needs experts to externalize their domain knowledge by manually specifying a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shichao Jia , Zeyu Li , Nuo Chen , Jiawan Zhang

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize instances of unseen classes solely based on the semantic descriptions of the classes. Existing algorithms usually formulate it as a semantic-visual correspondence problem, by learning mappings from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Kai Li , Martin Renqiang Min , Yun Fu

We consider low-shot counting of arbitrary semantic categories in the image using only few annotated exemplars (few-shot) or no exemplars (no-shot). The standard few-shot pipeline follows extraction of appearance queries from exemplars and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Nikola Djukic , Alan Lukezic , Vitjan Zavrtanik , Matej Kristan

Semantic segmentation models are limited in their ability to scale to large numbers of object classes. In this paper, we introduce the new task of zero-shot semantic segmentation: learning pixel-wise classifiers for never-seen object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Maxime Bucher , Tuan-Hung Vu , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Object counting is a fundamental task in computer vision, with broad applicability in many real-world scenarios. Fully-supervised counting methods require costly point-level annotations per object. Few weakly-supervised methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiaowen Zhang , Zijie Yue , Yong Luo , Cairong Zhao , Qijun Chen , Miaojing Shi

Zero-shot learning, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

We investigate the problem of Object State Classification (OSC) as a zero-shot learning problem. Specifically, we propose the first Object-agnostic State Classification (OaSC) method that infers the state of a certain object without relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Filipos Gouidis , Konstantinos Papoutsakis , Theodore Patkos , Antonis Argyros , Dimitris Plexousakis

The goal of this paper is to recognize actions in video without the need for examples. Different from traditional zero-shot approaches we do not demand the design and specification of attribute classifiers and class-to-attribute mappings to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Mihir Jain , Jan C. van Gemert , Thomas Mensink , Cees G. M. Snoek