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Current semantic segmentation models typically require a substantial amount of manually annotated data, a process that is both time-consuming and resource-intensive. Alternatively, leveraging advanced text-to-image models such as Midjourney…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bo Gao , Jianhui Wang , Xinyuan Song , Yangfan He , Fangxu Xing , Tianyu Shi

Instance-level recognition (ILR) focuses on identifying individual objects rather than broad categories, offering the highest granularity in image classification. However, this fine-grained nature makes creating large-scale annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yankun Wu , Zakaria Laskar , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Noa Garcia , Giorgos Tolias

Counting the number of items in a visual scene remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision. Traditional approaches to solving this problem rely on domain-specific counting architectures, which are trained using datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Kuinan Hou , Jing Mi , Marco Zorzi , Lamberto Ballan , Alberto Testolin

Object counting is an important task in computer vision due to its growing demand in applications such as surveillance, traffic monitoring, and counting everyday objects. State-of-the-art methods use regression-based optimization where they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Issam H. Laradji , Negar Rostamzadeh , Pedro O. Pinheiro , David Vazquez , Mark Schmidt

Acquiring count annotations generally requires less human effort than point-level and bounding box annotations. Thus, we propose the novel problem setup of localizing objects in dense scenes under this weaker supervision. We propose LOOC, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Issam H. Laradji , Rafael Pardinas , Pau Rodriguez , David Vazquez

Prompt learning has emerged as an efficient and effective approach for transferring foundational Vision-Language Models (e.g., CLIP) to downstream tasks. However, current methods tend to overfit to seen categories, thereby limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chen Xu , Yuhan Zhu , Guozhen Zhang , Haocheng Shen , Yixuan Liao , Xiaoxin Chen , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

Counting is one of the fundamental abilities of large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs). This paper examines how these foundation models represent and compute numerical information in counting tasks. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hosein Hasani , Amirmohammad Izadi , Fatemeh Askari , Mobin Bagherian , Sadegh Mohammadian , Mohammad Izadi , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle with compositional reasoning due to insufficient high-quality image-text data. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel block-based diffusion approach that automatically generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zexi Jia , Chuanwei Huang , Hongyan Fei , Yeshuang Zhu , Zhiqiang Yuan , Ying Deng , Jiapei Zhang , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Prompt learning has become a dominant paradigm for adapting vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP to downstream tasks without modifying pretrained weights. While extending prompts to both vision and text encoders across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Ramtin Pedarsani

We tackle the problem of quantifying the number of objects by a generative text-to-image model. Rather than retraining such a model for each new image domain of interest, which leads to high computational costs and limited scalability, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wenfang Sun , Yingjun Du , Gaowen Liu , Yefeng Zheng , Cees G. M. Snoek

Instance segmentation is a challenging task aiming at classifying and segmenting all object instances of specific classes. While two-stage box-based methods achieve top performances in the image domain, they cannot easily extend their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Xiang Li , Jinglu Wang , Xiao Li , Yan Lu

Prompt learning has become one of the most efficient paradigms for adapting large pre-trained vision-language models to downstream tasks. Current state-of-the-art methods, like CoOp and ProDA, tend to adopt soft prompts to learn an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sifan Long , Zhen Zhao , Junkun Yuan , Zichang Tan , Jiangjiang Liu , Luping Zhou , Shengsheng Wang , Jingdong Wang

Various works have aimed at combining the inference efficiency of recurrent models and training parallelism of multi-head attention for sequence modeling. However, most of these works focus on tasks with fixed-dimension observation spaces,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Bryce Ferenczi , Michael Burke , Tom Drummond

While recent supervised methods for reference-based object counting continue to improve the performance on benchmark datasets, they have to rely on small datasets due to the cost associated with manually annotating dozens of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Lukas Knobel , Tengda Han , Yuki M. Asano

Despite significant recent progress on generative models, controlled generation of images depicting multiple and complex object layouts is still a difficult problem. Among the core challenges are the diversity of appearance a given object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Bo Zhao , Lili Meng , Weidong Yin , Leonid Sigal

Recent text-to-image models have revolutionized image generation, but they still struggle with maintaining concept consistency across generated images. While existing works focus on character consistency, they often overlook the crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Quanjian Song , Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Fei Shen , Jiaze Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Cunjian Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

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 present an efficient and quantization-aware panoptic driving perception model (Q- YOLOP) for object detection, drivable area segmentation, and lane line segmentation, in the context of autonomous driving. Our model employs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Chi-Chih Chang , Wei-Cheng Lin , Pei-Shuo Wang , Sheng-Feng Yu , Yu-Chen Lu , Kuan-Cheng Lin , Kai-Chiang Wu

Synthesizing interactive 3D scenes from text is essential for gaming, virtual reality, and embodied AI. However, existing methods face several challenges. Learning-based approaches depend on small-scale indoor datasets, limiting the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Lu Ling , Chen-Hsuan Lin , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yifan Ding , Yu Zeng , Yichen Sheng , Yunhao Ge , Ming-Yu Liu , Aniket Bera , Zhaoshuo Li

The goal of image cropping is to identify visually appealing crops in an image. Conventional methods are trained on specific datasets and fail to adapt to new requirements. Recent breakthroughs in large vision-language models (VLMs) enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Seung Hyun Lee , Jijun Jiang , Yiran Xu , Zhuofang Li , Junjie Ke , Yinxiao Li , Junfeng He , Steven Hickson , Katie Datsenko , Sangpil Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Irfan Essa , Feng Yang