arXiv:2610.28356v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Object counting in videos remains a poorly characterized capability of multimodal large language models. Counting questions are included in many exis...
By Marc Chapus, Carlos Crispim-Junior, V\'eronique Eglin, Atilla Baskurt
arXiv:2607. 06420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual counting is a fundamental pillar of multimodal intelligence, requiring a seamless integration of fine-grained grounding and spatial reasoning.
By Jinhong Deng, Limeng Qiao, Guanglu Wan
ABACUS is a 3‑billion‑parameter vision‑language model that simultaneously tackles object counting, crowd counting, referring‑expression counting, and count‑faithful image generation. It introduces density‑aware adaptive zooming with an objectness map, a boundary‑aware count policy trained via GRPO to avoid over‑ or under‑counting at crop edges, and a cycle‑consistent GRPO strategy that scores generated images for count accuracy and aesthetic quality without external critics. The model sets new state‑of‑the‑art performance on seven benchmarks, outperforming both specialized and larger generalist models.
By Anindya Mondal, Sauradip Nag, Anjan Dutta
arXiv:2607. 00491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmarks for vision-language models (VLMs) mostly test observational spatial reasoning: models describe relations already visible in the input.
By Leyuan Yu, Xiao Tang, Minghao Liu, Xinyuan Li, Xiaokai Bai, Sheng Zhou, Qunshu Lin, Weihao Xuan, Naoto Yokoya
arXiv:2608.20621v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text-guided zero-shot object counters excel at spatial localization but categorize poorly on novel or fine-grained classes: natural language is too coa...
By Adriano D'Alessandro, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Ghassan Hamarneh
arXiv:2610.08379v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual counting is commonly formulated as counting a single specified target, with a model receiving an image-specific exemplar, text query, or target...
By Jinshi Liu, Pan Liu, Lei He, Weichao Luo, Rui Qian