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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

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 2023-04-25 Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Vu Nguyen , Viresh Ranjan , Dimitris Samaras

Zero-Shot Object Counting (ZSOC) aims to count referred instances of arbitrary classes in a query image without human-annotated exemplars. To deal with ZSOC, preceding studies proposed a two-stage pipeline: discovering exemplars and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Seunggu Kang , WonJun Moon , Euiyeon Kim , Jae-Pil Heo

Object counting in complex scenes is particularly challenging in the zero-shot (ZS) setting, where instances of unseen categories are counted using only a class name. Existing ZS counting methods that infer exemplars from text often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Muhammad Ibraheem Siddiqui , Muhammad Haris Khan

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

Zero-shot object counting (ZSOC) aims to enumerate objects of arbitrary categories specified by text descriptions without requiring visual exemplars. However, existing methods often treat counting as a coarse retrieval task, suffering from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Da Zhang , Bingyu Li , Feiyu Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao

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

Zero-shot object counting attempts to estimate the number of object instances belonging to novel categories that the vision model performing the counting has never encountered during training. Existing methods typically require large amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Richard Füzesséry , Kaziwa Saleh , Sándor Szénási , Zoltán Vámossy

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 work studies the problem of few-shot object counting, which counts the number of exemplar objects (i.e., described by one or several support images) occurring in the query image. The major challenge lies in that the target objects can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhiyuan You , Kai Yang , Wenhan Luo , Xin Lu , Lei Cui , Xinyi Le

Leveraging class semantic descriptions and examples of known objects, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model for an object class whose examples are not available. In this paper, we propose a novel zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Soravit Changpinyo , Wei-Lun Chao , Fei Sha

Low-shot object counters estimate the number of objects in an image using few or no annotated exemplars. Objects are localized by matching them to prototypes, which are constructed by unsupervised image-wide object appearance aggregation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jer Pelhan , Alan Lukežič , Vitjan Zavrtanik , Matej Kristan

Recent approaches have shown that training deep neural networks directly on large-scale image-text pair collections enables zero-shot transfer on various recognition tasks. One central issue is how this can be generalized to object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Johnathan Xie , Shuai Zheng

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

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

Camouflaged object segmentation presents unique challenges compared to traditional segmentation tasks, primarily due to the high similarity in patterns and colors between camouflaged objects and their backgrounds. Effective solutions to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenqi Guo , Mohamed Shehata , Shan Du

Recent advances in visual-language models have shown remarkable zero-shot text-image matching ability that is transferable to downstream tasks such as object detection and segmentation. Adapting these models for object counting, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ruixiang Jiang , Lingbo Liu , Changwen Chen

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

Zero-shot object counting aims to count instances of arbitrary object categories specified by text descriptions. Existing methods typically rely on vision-language models like CLIP, but often exhibit limited sensitivity to text prompts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yifei Qian , Zhongliang Guo , Bowen Deng , Chun Tong Lei , Shuai Zhao , Chun Pong Lau , Xiaopeng Hong , Michael P. Pound
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