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As we move towards large-scale object detection, it is unrealistic to expect annotated training data, in the form of bounding box annotations around objects, for all object classes at sufficient scale, and so methods capable of unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Pengkai Zhu , Hanxiao Wang , Venkatesh Saligrama

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

Methods for object detection and segmentation often require abundant instance-level annotations for training, which are time-consuming and expensive to collect. To address this, the task of zero-shot object detection (or segmentation) aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Anirudth Nambirajan , Behjat Siddiquie , Jayan Eledath , Leonid Sigal

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

In this work, we address the problem of few-shot multi-class object counting with point-level annotations. The proposed technique leverages a class agnostic attention mechanism that sequentially attends to objects in the image and extracts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Negin Sokhandan , Pegah Kamousi , Alejandro Posada , Eniola Alese , Negar Rostamzadeh

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

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

Object recognition systems usually require fully complete manually labeled training data to train the classifier. In this paper, we study the problem of object recognition where the training samples are missing during the classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Wai Lam Hoo , Chee Seng Chan

We introduce and tackle the problem of zero-shot object detection (ZSD), which aims to detect object classes which are not observed during training. We work with a challenging set of object classes, not restricting ourselves to similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Ankan Bansal , Karan Sikka , Gaurav Sharma , Rama Chellappa , Ajay Divakaran

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

We consider the problem of zero-shot one-class visual classification, extending traditional one-class classification to scenarios where only the label of the target class is available. This method aims to discriminate between positive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yassir Bendou , Giulia Lioi , Bastien Pasdeloup , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux , Vincent Gripon

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

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

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

In this work, we propose a zero-shot learning method to effectively model knowledge transfer between classes via jointly learning visually consistent word vectors and label embedding model in an end-to-end manner. The main idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Vision-language models enable open-world classification of objects without the need for any retraining. While this zero-shot paradigm marks a significant advance, even today's best models exhibit skewed performance when objects are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mazda Moayeri , Michael Rabbat , Mark Ibrahim , Diane Bouchacourt

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

We present a novel problem setting in zero-shot learning, zero-shot object recognition and detection in the context. Contrary to the traditional zero-shot learning methods, which simply infers unseen categories by transferring knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ruotian Luo , Ning Zhang , Bohyung Han , Linjie Yang

Object localization is a hot issue in computer vision area, which aims to identify and determine the precise location of specific objects from image or video. Most existing object localization methods heavily rely on extensive labeled data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jingjing Wang , Xinglin Piao , Zongzhi Gao , Bo Li , Yong Zhang , Baocai Yin

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