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Open-world Text-specified Object Counting
Niki Amini-Naieni, Kiana Amini-Naieni, Tengda Han, Andrew Zisserman
Our objective is open-world object counting in images, where the target object class is specified by a text description. To this end, we propose CounTX, a class-agnostic, single-stage model using a transformer decoder counting head on top of pre-trained joint text-image representations. CounTX is able to count the number of instances of any class given only an image and a text description of the target object class, and can be trained end-to-end. In addition to this model, we make the following contributions: (i) we compare the performance of CounTX to prior work on open-world object counting, and show that our approach exceeds the state of the art on all measures on the FSC-147 benchmark for methods that use text to specify the task; (ii) we present and release FSC-147-D, an enhanced version of FSC-147 with text descriptions, so that object classes can be described with more detailed language than their simple class names. FSC-147-D and the code are available at https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/countx.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object Counting | CARPK | CounTX (uses arbitrary text input to specify object to count, used "the cars" for CARPK) | MAE | 8.13 | #8 of 15 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Counting | CARPK | CounTX (uses arbitrary text input to specify object to count, used "the cars" for CARPK) | RMSE | 10.87 | #8 of 15 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Counting | FSC147 | CounTX (uses text descriptions instead of visual exemplars) | MAE(test) | 15.88 | #15 of 19 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Counting | FSC147 | CounTX (uses text descriptions instead of visual exemplars) | MAE(val) | 17.10 | #15 of 19 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Counting | FSC147 | CounTX (uses text descriptions instead of visual exemplars) | RMSE(test) | 106.29 | #15 of 19 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Counting | FSC147 | CounTX (uses text descriptions instead of visual exemplars) | RMSE(val) | 65.61 | #15 of 19 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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