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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

Large language models have shown their ability to become effective few-shot learners with prompting, revolutionizing the paradigm of learning with data scarcity. However, this approach largely depends on the quality of prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Xiaoming Liu , Chen Liu , Zhaohan Zhang , Chengzhengxu Li , Longtian Wang , Yu Lan , Chao Shen

Few-normal shot anomaly detection (FNSAD) aims to detect abnormal regions in images using only a few normal training samples, making the task highly challenging due to limited supervision and the diversity of potential defects. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Morteza Poudineh , Marc Lalonde

Prompt learning is one of the most effective and trending ways to adapt powerful vision-language foundation models like CLIP to downstream datasets by tuning learnable prompt vectors with very few samples. However, although prompt learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Cairong Zhao , Yubin Wang , Xinyang Jiang , Yifei Shen , Kaitao Song , Dongsheng Li , Duoqian Miao

Crowd counting and localization are important in applications such as public security and traffic management. Existing methods have achieved impressive results thanks to extensive laborious annotations. This paper propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yuda Zou , Zelong Liu , Yuliang Gu , Bo Du , Yongchao Xu

Semi-supervised crowd analysis is a prominent area of research, as unlabeled data are typically abundant and inexpensive to obtain. However, traditional point-based annotations constrain performance because individual regions are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiyang Huang , Hongru Cheng , Wei Lin , Jia Wan , Antoni B. Chan

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) often causes overfitting to specific prompt wording, where minor phrasing variations drastically reduce performance. To address this, we propose Prompt-Agnostic Fine-Tuning (PAFT), a method that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chenxing Wei , Yao Shu , Mingwen Ou , Ying Tiffany He , Fei Richard Yu

Recent studies have demonstrated that natural-language prompts can help to leverage the knowledge learned by pre-trained language models for the binary sentence-level sentiment classification task. Specifically, these methods utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mohna Chakraborty , Adithya Kulkarni , Qi Li

Prompt-based fine-tuning has become an essential method for eliciting information encoded in pre-trained language models for a variety of tasks, including text classification. For multi-class classification tasks, prompt-based fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhiwen You , Kanyao Han , Haotian Zhu , Bertram Ludäscher , Jana Diesner

Text-to-image generation has witnessed great progress, especially with the recent advancements in diffusion models. Since texts cannot provide detailed conditions like object appearance, reference images are usually leveraged for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zhiqi Huang , Huixin Xiong , Haoyu Wang , Longguang Wang , Zhiheng Li

Recent advancements in diffusion models have showcased their impressive capacity to generate visually striking images. Nevertheless, ensuring a close match between the generated image and the given prompt remains a persistent challenge. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Zuo-Liang Zhu , Yaxing Wang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

For downstream applications of vision-language pre-trained models, there has been significant interest in constructing effective prompts. Existing works on prompt engineering, which either require laborious manual designs or optimize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xinyang Liu , Dongsheng Wang , Bowei Fang , Miaoge Li , Zhibin Duan , Yishi Xu , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

This work proposes POMP, a prompt pre-training method for vision-language models. Being memory and computation efficient, POMP enables the learned prompt to condense semantic information for a rich set of visual concepts with over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuhuai Ren , Aston Zhang , Yi Zhu , Shuai Zhang , Shuai Zheng , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Xu Sun

Prompt-based methods have been used extensively across NLP to build zero- and few-shot label predictors. Many NLP tasks are naturally structured: that is, their outputs consist of multiple labels which constrain each other. Annotating data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Maitrey Mehta , Valentina Pyatkin , Vivek Srikumar

In crowd counting datasets, each person is annotated by a point, which is usually the center of the head. And the task is to estimate the total count in a crowd scene. Most of the state-of-the-art methods are based on density map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Zhiheng Ma , Xing Wei , Xiaopeng Hong , Yihong Gong

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

Facial recognition systems are vulnerable to physical (e.g., printed photos) and digital (e.g., DeepFake) face attacks. Existing methods struggle to simultaneously detect physical and digital attacks due to: 1) significant intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yongze Li , Ning Li , Ajian Liu , Hui Ma , Liying Yang , Xihong Chen , Zhiyao Liang , Yanyan Liang , Jun Wan , Zhen Lei

Active learning aims to reduce labeling costs by selecting only the most informative samples on a dataset. Few existing works have addressed active learning for object detection. Most of these methods are based on multiple models or are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiwoong Choi , Ismail Elezi , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Clement Farabet , Jose M. Alvarez

In the field of natural language processing, sentiment analysis via deep learning has a excellent performance by using large labeled datasets. Meanwhile, labeled data are insufficient in many sentiment analysis, and obtaining these data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Pengfei Zhang , Tingting Chai , Yongdong Xu

Few-shot, fine-grained classification in computer vision poses significant challenges due to the need to differentiate subtle class distinctions with limited data. This paper presents a novel method that enhances the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Eric Brouwer , Jan Erik van Woerden , Gertjan Burghouts , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Marco Zullich