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Object Counting: You Only Need to Look at One

11 Dec 2021arXiv:2112.05993archive 2025-07-28

Hui Lin, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang

This paper aims to tackle the challenging task of one-shot object counting. Given an image containing novel, previously unseen category objects, the goal of the task is to count all instances in the desired category with only one supporting bounding box example. To this end, we propose a counting model by which you only need to Look At One instance (LaoNet). First, a feature correlation module combines the Self-Attention and Correlative-Attention modules to learn both inner-relations and inter-relations. It enables the network to be robust to the inconsistency of rotations and sizes among different instances. Second, a Scale Aggregation mechanism is designed to help extract features with different scale information. Compared with existing few-shot counting methods, LaoNet achieves state-of-the-art results while learning with a high convergence speed. The code will be available soon.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Object Counting FSC147 LaoNet MAE(test) 15.78 #14 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Object Counting FSC147 LaoNet MAE(val) 17.11 #14 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Object Counting FSC147 LaoNet RMSE(test) 97.15 #14 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
Object Counting FSC147 LaoNet RMSE(val) 56.81 #14 of 19 Archive leaderboard report

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