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Main Authors: Ting, Pan, Lin, Jianfeng, Yu, Wenhao, Zhang, Wenlong, Chen, Xiaoying, Zhang, Jinlu, Huang, Binqiang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02301
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author Ting, Pan
Lin, Jianfeng
Yu, Wenhao
Zhang, Wenlong
Chen, Xiaoying
Zhang, Jinlu
Huang, Binqiang
author_facet Ting, Pan
Lin, Jianfeng
Yu, Wenhao
Zhang, Wenlong
Chen, Xiaoying
Zhang, Jinlu
Huang, Binqiang
contents Object counting is a challenging task with broad application prospects in security surveillance, traffic management, and disease diagnosis. Existing object counting methods face a tri-fold challenge: achieving superior performance, maintaining high generalizability, and minimizing annotation costs. We develop a novel training-free class-agnostic object counter, TFCounter, which is prompt-context-aware via the cascade of the essential elements in large-scale foundation models. This approach employs an iterative counting framework with a dual prompt system to recognize a broader spectrum of objects varying in shape, appearance, and size. Besides, it introduces an innovative context-aware similarity module incorporating background context to enhance accuracy within messy scenes. To demonstrate cross-domain generalizability, we collect a novel counting dataset named BIKE-1000, including exclusive 1000 images of shared bicycles from Meituan. Extensive experiments on FSC-147, CARPK, and BIKE-1000 datasets demonstrate that TFCounter outperforms existing leading training-free methods and exhibits competitive results compared to trained counterparts.
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spellingShingle TFCounter:Polishing Gems for Training-Free Object Counting
Ting, Pan
Lin, Jianfeng
Yu, Wenhao
Zhang, Wenlong
Chen, Xiaoying
Zhang, Jinlu
Huang, Binqiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
68
Object counting is a challenging task with broad application prospects in security surveillance, traffic management, and disease diagnosis. Existing object counting methods face a tri-fold challenge: achieving superior performance, maintaining high generalizability, and minimizing annotation costs. We develop a novel training-free class-agnostic object counter, TFCounter, which is prompt-context-aware via the cascade of the essential elements in large-scale foundation models. This approach employs an iterative counting framework with a dual prompt system to recognize a broader spectrum of objects varying in shape, appearance, and size. Besides, it introduces an innovative context-aware similarity module incorporating background context to enhance accuracy within messy scenes. To demonstrate cross-domain generalizability, we collect a novel counting dataset named BIKE-1000, including exclusive 1000 images of shared bicycles from Meituan. Extensive experiments on FSC-147, CARPK, and BIKE-1000 datasets demonstrate that TFCounter outperforms existing leading training-free methods and exhibits competitive results compared to trained counterparts.
title TFCounter:Polishing Gems for Training-Free Object Counting
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
68
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02301