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Generic object counting in natural scenes is a challenging computer vision problem. Existing approaches either rely on instance-level supervision or absolute count information to train a generic object counter. We introduce a partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Hisham Cholakkal , Guolei Sun , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting small, dense, and overlapping objects, a major challenge in computer vision. Our focus is on reviewing proposed methods based on deep learning supervised approaches. We provide a detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oussama Messai , Abbass Zein-Eddine , Abdelouahid Bentamou , Mickael Picq , Nicolas Duquesne , Stéphane Puydarrieux , Yann Gavet

Object counting is a hot topic in computer vision, which aims to estimate the number of objects in a given image. However, most methods only count objects of a single category for an image, which cannot be applied to scenes that need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Junyu Gao , Liangliang Zhao , Xuelong Li

For crowded scenes, the accuracy of object-based computer vision methods declines when the images are low-resolution and objects have severe occlusions. Taking counting methods for example, almost all the recent state-of-the-art counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Di Kang , Zheng Ma , Antoni B. Chan

In the domain of Few-Shot Image Classification, operating with as little as one example per class, the presence of image ambiguities stemming from multiple objects or complex backgrounds can significantly deteriorate performance. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Aymane Abdali , Bartosz Boguslawski , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon

In this paper, we explore the problem of training one-look regression models for counting objects in datasets comprising a small number of high-resolution, variable-shaped images. We illustrate that conventional global average pooling (GAP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shubhra Aich , Ian Stavness

Emerging interests have been brought to recognize previously unseen objects given very few training examples, known as few-shot object detection (FSOD). Recent researches demonstrate that good feature embedding is the key to reach favorable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Bo Sun , Banghuai Li , Shengcai Cai , Ye Yuan , Chi Zhang

Detecting novel objects from few examples has become an emerging topic in computer vision recently. However, these methods need fully annotated training images to learn new object categories which limits their applicability in real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Amirreza Shaban , Amir Rahimi , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Byron Boots , Richard Hartley

Density map estimation enables accurate object counting in heavily occluded, and densely packed scenes where detection-based counting fails. In multi-class density estimation, class awareness can be introduced by modelling classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Villanelle O'Reilly , Jonathan Cox , Georgios Leontidis , Marc Hanheide , Petra Bosilj , James M. Brown

Few-shot segmentation aims to devise a generalizing model that segments query images from unseen classes during training with the guidance of a few support images whose class tally with the class of the query. There exist two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Alper Kayabaşı , Gülin Tüfekci , İlkay Ulusoy

For the ore particle size detection, obtaining a sizable amount of high-quality ore labeled data is time-consuming and expensive. General object detection methods often suffer from severe over-fitting with scarce labeled data. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yang Zhang , Le Cheng , Yuting Peng , Chengming Xu , Yanwei Fu , Bo Wu , Guodong Sun

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

We present Pix2Seq, a simple and generic framework for object detection. Unlike existing approaches that explicitly integrate prior knowledge about the task, we cast object detection as a language modeling task conditioned on the observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ting Chen , Saurabh Saxena , Lala Li , David J. Fleet , Geoffrey Hinton

Real-world object detection is highly desired to be equipped with the learning expandability that can enlarge its detection classes incrementally. Moreover, such learning from only few annotated training samples further adds the flexibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

We propose a new method to count objects of specific categories that are significantly smaller than the ground sampling distance of a satellite image. This task is hard due to the cluttered nature of scenes where different object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Andres C. Rodriguez , Jan D. Wegner

This paper proposes a novel approach for crowd counting in low to high density scenarios in static images. Current approaches cannot handle huge crowd diversity well and thus perform poorly in extreme cases, where the crowd density in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Usman Sajid , Hasan Sajid , Hongcheng Wang , Guanghui Wang

Remote sensing object detection is particularly challenging due to the high resolution, multi-scale features, and diverse ground object characteristics inherent in satellite and UAV imagery. These challenges necessitate more advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hui Lin , Nan Li , Pengjuan Yao , Kexin Dong , Yuhan Guo , Danfeng Hong , Ying Zhang , Congcong Wen

Recent advances in computer vision has led to a growth of interest in deploying visual analytics model on mobile devices. However, most mobile devices have limited computing power, which prohibits them from running large scale visual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Zhongzheng Yuan , Samyak Rawlekar , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip , Yao Wang

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

Tiny object detection in remote sensing imagery has attracted significant research interest in recent years. Despite recent progress, achieving balanced detection performance across diverse object scales remains a formidable challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhicheng Zhao , Yin Huang , Lingma Sun , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang