| CountGD: Multi-Modal Open-World Counting | ✓ Link | 5.74 | 7.1 | 24.09 | 26.08 | CountGD | 2024-07-05 |
| CoDi -- an exemplar-conditioned diffusion model for low-shot counting | ✓ Link | 5.74 | | 30.99 | | CoDi | 2025-12-23 |
| CountGD++: Generalized Prompting for Open-World Counting | ✓ Link | 5.86 | | 18.79 | | CountGD++ | 2025-12-29 |
| Generalized-Scale Object Counting with Gradual Query Aggregation | ✓ Link | 7.64 | 9.40 | 39.39 | 33.28 | GECO2 | 2026-01-01 |
| CountSE: Soft Exemplar Open-set Object Counting | ✓ Link | 7.84 | | 82.99 | | CountSE | 2025-10-23 |
| A Novel Unified Architecture for Low-Shot Counting by Detection and Segmentation | ✓ Link | 7.91 | 9.52 | 54.28 | 43.00 | GeCo | 2024-09-27 |
| CountEx: Fine-Grained Counting via Exemplars and Exclusion | ✓ Link | 8.63 | | 84.55 | | CountEx | 2026-02-23 |
| DAVE -- A Detect-and-Verify Paradigm for Low-Shot Counting | ✓ Link | 8.66 | 8.91 | 32.36 | 28.08 | DAVE | 2024-04-25 |
| SAVE: Self-Attention on Visual Embedding for Zero-Shot Generic Object Counting | ✓ Link | 8.92 | | 80.39 | | SAVE | 2025-02-10 |
| Vision Transformer Off-the-Shelf: A Surprising Baseline for Few-Shot Class-Agnostic Counting | ✓ Link | 9.13 | 10.63 | 48.96 | 37.95 | CACViT | 2023-05-08 |
| Decoupling What to Count and Where to See for Referring Expression Counting | | 9.53 | | 83.46 | | W2-Net | 2025-10-28 |
| Learning Spatial Similarity Distribution for Few-shot Object Counting | ✓ Link | 9.58 | 9.73 | 64.13 | 29.72 | SSD | 2024-05-20 |
| Count Anything at Any Granularity | | 10.29 | | 99.13 | | HieraCount | 2026-05-11 |
| A Low-Shot Object Counting Network With Iterative Prototype Adaptation | ✓ Link | 10.79 | 10.24 | 56.97 | 32.56 | LOCA | 2022-11-15 |
| Semantic Generative Augmentations for Few-Shot Counting | ✓ Link | 11.32 | 12.31 | 77.50 | 41.65 | SemAug-CounTR | 2023-10-26 |
| CounTR: Transformer-based Generalised Visual Counting | ✓ Link | 11.95 | 13.13 | 91.23 | 49.83 | CounTR | 2022-08-29 |
| Spatially-Aware Class-Agnostic Object Counting | | 12.39 | 13.62 | 100.89 | 60.07 | UpCount | 2026-07-18 |
| Semantic Generative Augmentations for Few-Shot Counting | ✓ Link | 12.74 | 12.59 | 89.90 | 44.95 | SemAug-SAFECount | 2023-10-26 |
| Point Segment and Count: A Generalized Framework for Object Counting | ✓ Link | 13.05 | | 112.86 | | PseCo | 2024-01-01 |
| Scale-Prior Deformable Convolution for Exemplar-Guided Class-Agnostic Counting | ✓ Link | 13.51 | 14.59 | 96.80 | 49.97 | SPDCN | 2022-12-21 |
| GCA-SUNet: A Gated Context-Aware Swin-UNet for Exemplar-Free Counting | | 14.00 | 16.06 | 92.19 | 53.04 | GCA-SUN | 2024-09-18 |
| Few-shot Object Counting with Similarity-Aware Feature Enhancement | ✓ Link | 14.32 | 15.28 | 85.54 | 47.20 | SAFECount | 2022-01-22 |
| Represent, Compare, and Learn: A Similarity-Aware Framework for Class-Agnostic Counting | ✓ Link | 14.62 | 15.74 | 91.83 | 58.53 | BMNet+ | 2022-03-16 |
| Object Counting: You Only Need to Look at One | | 15.78 | 17.11 | 97.15 | 56.81 | LaoNet | 2021-12-11 |
| Open-world Text-specified Object Counting | ✓ Link | 15.88 | 17.10 | 106.29 | 65.61 | CounTX (uses text descriptions instead of visual exemplars) | 2023-06-02 |
| Point Segment and Count: A Generalized Framework for Object Counting | ✓ Link | 16.58 | | 129.77 | | PseCo (zero-shot) | 2024-01-01 |
| Few-shot Object Counting and Detection | ✓ Link | 16.79 | | 123.56 | | Counting-DETR | 2022-07-22 |
| OCCAM: Class-Agnostic, Training-Free, Prior-Free and Multi-Class Object Counting | | 16.92 | | 110.83 | | OCCAM-S | 2026-01-20 |
| Mind the Prompt: A Novel Benchmark for Prompt-based Class-Agnostic Counting | ✓ Link | 17.02 | | 106.93 | | VLCounter | 2024-09-24 |
| Learning to Count Anything: Reference-less Class-agnostic Counting with Weak Supervision | ✓ Link | 17.12 | 17.49 | 104.53 | 58.81 | RCC | 2022-05-20 |
| Mind the Prompt: A Novel Benchmark for Prompt-based Class-Agnostic Counting | ✓ Link | 17.59 | | 109.97 | | CLIP-Count | 2024-09-24 |
| OmniCount: Multi-label Object Counting with Semantic-Geometric Priors | | 18.63 | | 112 | | Omnicount (Open vocabulary, multi-label, without training) | 2024-03-08 |
| Learning To Count Everything | ✓ Link | 22.08 | 23.75 | 99.54 | 69.07 | FamNet | 2021-04-16 |
| Mind the Prompt: A Novel Benchmark for Prompt-based Class-Agnostic Counting | ✓ Link | 24.79 | | 138.11 | | TFPOC | 2024-09-24 |