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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

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

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) 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

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

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

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) 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

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

Recently, Class-Agnostic Counting (CAC) problem has garnered increasing attention owing to its intriguing generality and superior efficiency compared to Category-Specific Counting (CSC). This paper proposes a novel ExpressCount to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Mingjie Wang , Jun Zhou , Yong Dai , Eric Buys , Minglun Gong

Class-agnostic object counting aims to count all objects in an image with respect to example boxes or class names, \emph{a.k.a} few-shot and zero-shot counting. In this paper, we propose a generalized framework for both few-shot and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zhizhong Huang , Mingliang Dai , Yi Zhang , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

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

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

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

Class-agnostic counting (CAC) aims to count all instances in a query image given few exemplars. A standard pipeline is to extract visual features from exemplars and match them with query images to infer object counts. Two essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Min Shi , Hao Lu , Chen Feng , Chengxin Liu , Zhiguo Cao

Open-world text-guided class-agnostic counting (CAC) has emerged as a flexible paradigm for counting arbitrary object classes by using natural language prompts. However, current evaluation protocols primarily focus on standard counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Giacomo Pacini , Luca Ciampi , Nicola Messina , Nicola Tonellotto , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Class-agnostic object counting aims to count object instances of an arbitrary class at test time. It is challenging but also enables many potential applications. Current methods require human-annotated exemplars as inputs which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

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

The performance of image segmentation models has historically been constrained by the high cost of collecting large-scale annotated data. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) alleviates this original problem through a promptable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Miguel Espinosa , Chenhongyi Yang , Linus Ericsson , Steven McDonagh , Elliot J. Crowley

The Segment-Anything Model (SAM) is a vision foundation model for segmentation with a prompt-driven framework. SAM generates class-agnostic masks based on user-specified instance-referring prompts. However, adapting SAM for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hussni Mohd Zakir , Eric Tatt Wei Ho
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