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  1. UniCounting: Instance-Aware Proposal Consolidation for Image-Query-Free Multi-Category Counting

    Oct 6, 2026Jinshi Liu, Pan Liu, Lei He +2Object CountingData Association

    Shenzhen University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Hunan University of Science and Technology +2

  2. COBICount: Separating Object and Background Responses for Remote Sensing Object Counting Without Training on Target Data

    Sep 30, 2026Junjing Zheng, Zhiyi Zhou, Ningrui Yang +1Domain GeneralizationObject Counting

    School of International Studies, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China · Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, U.K. · Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University of London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, U.K.

  3. Why MLLMs Struggle to Count: Overcoming Individuation and Aggregation Bottlenecks with ConvStack

    Sep 29, 2026Liwei Che, Yihao Quan, Sen Fang +4Object CountingMultimodal Large Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University · Department of Computer Science, University of Washington

  4. VesselBench-800K: A Large-scale Perception Benchmark for Multimodal Vessel Detection, Counting, and Density Estimation

    Sep 29, 2026Danfeng Hong, Chenyu Li, Jocelyn ChanussotObject CountingRemote Sensing

    School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China · Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, LESSEM, 38000 Grenoble, France · Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LJK, Grenoble 38000, France

  5. AgriCountDINO: Parameter-Efficient Exemplar-Guided Counting and Localization in Agriculture

    Sep 24, 2026Shengjie Guo, Xin Li, Borjana Arsova +2Plant PhenotypingObject Counting

    Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy · Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Plant Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany · Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy +1

  6. MCLC-NET: Multimodal Continual Learning for Leaf Counting

    Sep 16, 2026Ruchi Bhatt, Pratibha Kumari, Shreya Bansal +3Plant PhenotypingObject Counting

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, India · Department of Informatics and Data Science, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany · Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University, UAE

  7. Optical-Flow Wingbeat Counting in MuJoCo: A Comparison of Convolutional, Spiking, and Attention-Based Temporal Models

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboOptical FlowAerial Robotics

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  8. CatchMonitor: a machine learning system for automated fish discard quantification

    Sep 14, 2026Geoff French, Michal Mackiewicz, Mark Fisher +2Object CountingVideo Surveillance

  9. Counting Animals in Camera-Traps Image Sequences without Count Labels: Winning Solution to the iWildCam 2021 Challenge

    Sep 3, 2026Fagner Cunha, Juan G. Colonna, Eulanda M. dos SantosObject CountingWildlife Monitoring

    Federal University of Amazonas · Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

  10. Bee Detection and Tracking at Hive Entrance using YOLO11 and ByteTrack

    Aug 24, 2026Thi Thu Thao Nguyen, Johannes ReschkeSmall Object DetectionObject Counting

    IoT Engineering Savonia University of Applied Sciences Finland · Electrical and Information Engineering Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg Germany

  11. One-Time Training for All Grains: Open-Set Grain Recognition and Quantitative Analysis

    Aug 10, 2026Qihe Su, Mengyu Sun, Yuxi Ke +4Plant PhenotypingObject Counting

    National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China · College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China · Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Technology for Agriculture, Ministry of Education +1

  12. Data collection from highways: a geometric, class-agnostic approach to embedded vehicle counting

    Aug 7, 2026Lucas Gouveia Omena Lopes, William W. M. Lira, Alexandre M. Lima +1Edge ComputingTraffic Flow Estimation

    Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

  13. Counting the Cost of War Under Satellite Embargo: Zero-Shot Estimation of Impacted Infrastructure

    Jul 31, 2026Saleh Sakib Ahmed, M. Sohel RahmanRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Palashi, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh.

  14. Spatial-IQ: Deconstructing Spatial Intelligence via Hierarchical Capability Tests

    Jul 24, 2026Patrick Rim, Tom Long, Ekta Prashnani +6Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Spatial Reasoning

    1NVIDIA Research · 2Yale University

  15. Spatially-Aware Class-Agnostic Object Counting

    Jul 18, 2026Robert Wijaya, Md. Tanvir Hossain, Amanda Kau +1Object Counting

    Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore · The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand · The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  16. Unsupervised Detection of Entry and Exit Regions from Vehicle Trajectories for Camera-Agnostic Turning Movement Counts

    Jul 12, 2026Parikshit Singh Rathore, Vishwajeet Pattanaik, Punit RathoreTraffic Flow EstimationUnsupervised Clustering

    Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBCCPS), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India · Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India

  17. HAJJv2-CrowdCount: Zero-Shot Benchmark for Dense Crowd Counting

    Jul 8, 2026Reem AlYabis, Fares AlTuwaim, AlJawharh AlOtaibi +1Crowd CountingObject Counting

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  18. HoloCount: A Holistic Visual Counting Benchmark for MLLMs

    Jul 7, 2026Jinhong Deng, Limeng Qiao, Guanglu WanMultimodal RobustnessObject Counting

    Meituan

  19. LeukocyteCount: Automatic Identification and Counting for leukocytes using Deep Learning

    Jul 5, 2026Ahmed M. Sayed, Sondos A. Refaat, Abdallah M. Mostafa +2Object CountingMicroscopy Image Analysis

    Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt · 2Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. · School of Information Technology and Computer Science +1

  20. AdaCount: Training-Free Similarity-Guided Spatial and Feature Adaptation for Zero-Shot Object Counting

    Jul 2, 2026Muhammad Ibraheem Siddiqui, Muhammad Haris KhanTest-Time AdaptationVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

  21. TriViewBench: Controlled Complexity Scaling for Multi-View Structural Reasoning in MLLMs

    Jun 24, 2026Yu-Yang Chen, Lan-Zhe GuoSpatial Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China · National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China

  22. VTOS: Learning to Orchestrate Vision Tools by Co-Searching Solutions and Observers

    Jun 17, 2026Jinchao Ge, Lingqiao Liu, Shuwen Zhao +1Object Counting

    University of Wollongong · Adelaide University · Tianjin University of Technology

  23. MambaCount: Efficient Text-guided Open-vocabulary Object Counting with Spatial Sparse State Space Duality Block

    Jun 16, 2026Hao-Yuan Ma, Li Zhang, Minjie Qiang +1Object CountingVisual SSMs

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

  24. RT-Counter: Real-Time Text-Guided Open-Vocabulary Object Counting

    Jun 16, 2026Hao-Yuan Ma, Li Zhang, Zhiwei Zhu +1Object CountingEfficient ViTs

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University Suzhou, China

  25. CellNet -- Localizing Cells using Sparse and Noisy Point Annotations

    Jun 10, 2026Benjamin Eckhardt, Dmytro Fishman, Stuart Fawke +3Object CountingMicroscopy Image Analysis

    University of Göttingen · University of Tartu · Wellcome Sanger Institute

  26. Count Anything

    May 29, 2026Mengqi Lei, Shuokun Cheng, Wei Bao +4Object Counting

    1{BNRist, THUIBCS, BLBCI, School of Software}, Tsinghua University · School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan · 3State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, National Engineering Research Center for Visual Information and Applications, and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University

  27. Unveiling the Visual Counting Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models

    May 28, 2026Xingzhou Pang, Yifan Hou, Junling Wang +1Object CountingLatent Visual Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich

  28. The MixCount Dataset: Bridging the Data Gap for Open-Vocabulary Object Counting

    May 18, 2026Corentin Dumery, Niki Amini-Naieni, Shervin Naini +1Synthetic Data AugmentationObject Counting

    EPFL · University of Oxford · Northwestern University

  29. Counting Machine Parts

    May 18, 2026Benedict Florance Arockiaraj, Elizabeth Dinella, Ankit Billa +1Object CountingIndustrial Inspection

  30. CounterCount: A Diagnostic Framework for Counting Bias in Vision Language Models

    May 18, 2026Reem Alzahrani, Hassan Alshanqiti, Bushra Bin Hemid +3VLM EvaluationVision-Language Models

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. · University of Edinburgh · KAUST

  31. MicroscopyMatching: Towards a Ready-to-use Framework for Microscopy Image Analysis in Diverse Conditions

    May 14, 2026Xiaofei Hui, Haoxuan Qu, Hossein Rahmani +3Image SegmentationImage Matching

    School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. · Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. · Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

  32. Count Anything at Any Granularity

    May 11, 2026Chang Liu, Haoning Wu, Weidi XieObject CountingMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · CMIC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  33. The Right Answer, the Wrong Direction: Why Transformers Fail at Counting and How to Fix It

    May 5, 2026Gabriel GarciaNumerical Reasoning in Language ModelsTransformer Interpretability

    Independent Researcher

  34. Does it Really Count? Assessing Semantic Grounding in Text-Guided Class-Agnostic Counting

    May 4, 2026Giacomo Pacini, Luca Ciampi, Nicola Messina +3VLM EvaluationVLM Robustness

    Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy · University of Pisa - Department of Information Engineering, Via G. Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy

  35. Learning to count small and clustered objects with application to bacterial colonies

    Apr 21, 2026Minghua Zheng, Na Helian, Peter C. R. Lane +2Object CountingCross-Domain Generalization

    King’s College London, St Thomas Street, London, SE1 1UL, United Kingdom · University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, United Kingdom · Synoptics Ltd, Beacon House, Nuffield Road, Cambridge, CB4 1TF, United Kingdom

  36. Investigation of cardinality classification for bacterial colony counting using explainable artificial intelligence

    Apr 21, 2026Minghua Zheng, Na Helian, Peter C. R. Lane +2Object CountingClassification

    King’s College London, St Thomas Street, London, SE1 1UL, United Kingdom · University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, United Kingdom · Synoptics Ltd, Beacon House, Nuffield Road, Cambridge, CB4 1TF, United Kingdom

  37. SVCBench: A Streaming Video Counting Benchmark for Spatial-Temporal State Maintenance

    Mar 13, 2026Pengyiang Liu, Zhongyue Shi, Hongye Hao +7VLM EvaluationStreaming Video Understanding

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou, China

  38. CoDi -- an exemplar-conditioned diffusion model for low-shot counting

    Dec 23, 2025Grega Šuštar, Jer Pelhan, Alan Lukežič +1Object CountingFew-Shot Learning

    Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  39. CountLoop: Training-Free High-Instance Image Generation via Iterative Agent Guidance

    Aug 18, 2025Anindya Mondal, Sauradip Nag, Ayan Banerjee +3Diffusion Model GuidanceObject Counting

    University of Surrey · Simon Fraser University · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  40. ABACUS: Adapting Unified Foundation Model for Bridging Image Count Understanding and Generation

    Date pendingAnindya Mondal, Sauradip Nag, Anjan DuttaVLM AdaptationCrowd Counting

    University of Surrey, United Kingdom & Simon Fraser University, Canada · University of Surrey, United Kingdom