Can SAM Count Anything? An Empirical Study on SAM Counting

04/21/2023

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by   Zhiheng Ma, et al.

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Meta AI recently released the Segment Anything model (SAM), which has garnered attention due to its impressive performance in class-agnostic segmenting. In this study, we explore the use of SAM for the challenging task of few-shot object counting, which involves counting objects of an unseen category by providing a few bounding boxes of examples. We compare SAM's performance with other few-shot counting methods and find that it is currently unsatisfactory without further fine-tuning, particularly for small and crowded objects. Code can be found at <https://github.com/Vision-Intelligence-and-Robots-Group/count-anything>.