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Few-shot Object Counting and Detection

22 Jul 2022arXiv:2207.10988archive 2025-07-28

Thanh Nguyen, Chau Pham, Khoi Nguyen, Minh Hoai

We tackle a new task of few-shot object counting and detection. Given a few exemplar bounding boxes of a target object class, we seek to count and detect all objects of the target class. This task shares the same supervision as the few-shot object counting but additionally outputs the object bounding boxes along with the total object count. To address this challenging problem, we introduce a novel two-stage training strategy and a novel uncertainty-aware few-shot object detector: Counting-DETR. The former is aimed at generating pseudo ground-truth bounding boxes to train the latter. The latter leverages the pseudo ground-truth provided by the former but takes the necessary steps to account for the imperfection of pseudo ground-truth. To validate the performance of our method on the new task, we introduce two new datasets named FSCD-147 and FSCD-LVIS. Both datasets contain images with complex scenes, multiple object classes per image, and a huge variation in object shapes, sizes, and appearance. Our proposed approach outperforms very strong baselines adapted from few-shot object counting and few-shot object detection with a large margin in both counting and detection metrics. The code and models are available at https://github.com/VinAIResearch/Counting-DETR.

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Few-Shot Object DetectionFew-shot Object Counting and DetectionObjectObject CountingObject Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Few-shot Object Counting and Detection FSC147 Counting-DETR AP(test) 22.66 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Few-shot Object Counting and Detection FSC147 Counting-DETR AP50(test) 50.57 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Few-shot Object Counting and Detection FSC147 Counting-DETR MAE(test) 16.79 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Few-shot Object Counting and Detection FSC147 Counting-DETR RMSE(test) 123.56 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Object Counting FSC147 Counting-DETR MAE(test) 16.79 #16 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Object Counting FSC147 Counting-DETR RMSE(test) 123.56 #16 of 19 Archive leaderboard report

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