F2CENet: Single-Image Object Counting Based on Block Co-Saliency Density Map Estimation
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Abstract
This paper presents a novel single-image object counting method based on block co-saliency density map estimation, called free-to-count everything network (F2CENet). Image block co-saliency attention is introduced to promote density estimation adaptation, allowing to input any image with arbitrary size for accurate counting using the learned model without requiring manually labeled few shots. The proposed network also outperforms existing crowd counting methods based on geometry-adaptive kernels in complex scenes. A novel module generates multilevel & scale block correlation maps to guide the co-saliency density map estimation. Co-saliency attention maps are then fused for accurately locating block-wise salient objects under guidance of the initial cues. Hence, accurate density maps are generated via comprehensive learning of internal relations in block co-salient features and progressive optimization of local details with saliency-oriented scene understanding. Results from extensive experiments on existing density map estimation datasets with arbitrary challenges verify the effectiveness of the proposed F2CENet and show that it outperforms various state-of-the-art few-shot and crowd counting methods. Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) are used as evaluation metrics to measure the accuracy which are commonly used metrics for counting task. The average predicted MAE and RMSE are 10.88% and 8.44% less compared with the state-of-the-art evaluated on dataset contains sufficiently large and diverse categories used for few-shot and crowd counting.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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