English
Related papers

Related papers: Count Anything at Any Granularity

200 papers

3D visual grounding aims to locate objects based on natural language descriptions in 3D scenes. Existing methods rely on a pre-defined Object Lookup Table (OLT) to query Visual Language Models (VLMs) for reasoning about object locations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wenyuan Huang , Zhao Wang , Zhou Wei , Ting Huang , Fang Zhao , Jian Yang , Zhenyu Zhang

Fine-grained open-vocabulary object detection (FG-OVD) aims to detect novel object categories described by attribute-rich texts. While existing open-vocabulary detectors show promise at the base-category level, they underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiaming Li , Zhijia Liang , Weikai Chen , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

Hierarchical image recognition seeks to predict class labels along a semantic taxonomy, from broad categories to specific ones, typically under the tidy assumption that every training image is fully annotated along its taxonomy path.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Seulki Park , Zilin Wang , Stella X. Yu

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models have demonstrated strong performance in terms of image quality and diversity. However, they still struggle to generate images that accurately reflect the number of objects specified in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Joohyeon Lee , Jin-Seop Lee , Jee-Hyong Lee

Recent advancements in large vision-language models enabled visual object detection in open-vocabulary scenarios, where object classes are defined in free-text formats during inference. In this paper, we aim to probe the state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lorenzo Bianchi , Fabio Carrara , Nicola Messina , Claudio Gennaro , Fabrizio Falchi

Large vision-language models (VLMs) are shown to learn rich joint image-text representations enabling high performances in relevant downstream tasks. However, they fail to showcase their quantitative understanding of objects, and they lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Harshvardhan Mestha , Tejas Agrawal , Karan Bania , Shreyas V , Yash Bhisikar

To bridge the gap between supervised semantic segmentation and real-world applications that acquires one model to recognize arbitrary new concepts, recent zero-shot segmentation attracts a lot of attention by exploring the relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Quande Liu , Youpeng Wen , Jianhua Han , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Story visualization aims to generate a sequence of images to narrate each sentence in a multi-sentence story with a global consistency across dynamic scenes and characters. Current works still struggle with output images' quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Bowen Li , Thomas Lukasiewicz

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

Recent advances in instruction-tuned Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have imbued the models with the ability to generate high-level, image-grounded explanations with ease. While such capability is largely attributed to the rich world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jeonghwan Kim , Heng Ji

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have significantly advanced zero-shot image recognition. However, their performance remains limited by suboptimal prompt engineering and poor adaptability to target classes. While recent methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hui Liu , Kecheng Chen , Jialiang Wang , Xianming Liu , Wenya Wang , Haoliang Li

Vision-language foundation models, represented by Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), have gained increasing attention for jointly understanding both vision and textual tasks. However, existing approaches primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bowen Shi , Peisen Zhao , Zichen Wang , Yuhang Zhang , Yaoming Wang , Jin Li , Wenrui Dai , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian , Xiaopeng Zhang

3D visual grounding involves finding a target object in a 3D scene that corresponds to a given sentence query. Although many approaches have been proposed and achieved impressive performance, they all require dense object-sentence pair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zehan Wang , Haifeng Huang , Yang Zhao , Linjun Li , Xize Cheng , Yichen Zhu , Aoxiong Yin , Zhou Zhao

Open-vocabulary image segmentation aims to partition an image into semantic regions according to arbitrary text descriptions. However, complex visual scenes can be naturally decomposed into simpler parts and abstracted at multiple levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Xudong Wang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

As language and visual understanding by machines progresses rapidly, we are observing an increasing interest in holistic architectures that tightly interlink both modalities in a joint learning and inference process. This trend has allowed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Mateusz Malinowski , Mario Fritz

The advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) is hampered by a fragmented landscape of inconsistent and contaminated public datasets. We introduce FineVision, a meticulously collected, curated, and unified corpus of 24 million samples -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Luis Wiedmann , Orr Zohar , Amir Mahla , Xiaohan Wang , Rui Li , Thibaud Frere , Leandro von Werra , Aritra Roy Gosthipaty , Andrés Marafioti

Generative modeling is widely regarded as one of the most essential problems in today's AI community, with text-to-image generation having gained unprecedented real-world impacts. Among various approaches, diffusion models have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xuyang Guo , Jiayan Huo , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang , Zhen Zhuang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on vision-language reasoning tasks. However, their potential for zero-shot fine-grained image classification, a challenging task requiring precise differentiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Md. Atabuzzaman , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas

Object counting aims to estimate the number of objects in images. The leading counting approaches focus on the single category counting task and achieve impressive performance. Note that there are multiple categories of objects in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Wei Xu , Dingkang Liang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma