Title
Zenithal isotropic object counting by localization using adversarial training
Abstract
Counting objects in images is a very time-consuming task for humans that yields to errors caused by repetitiveness and boredom. In this paper, we present a novel object counting method that, unlike most of the recent works that focus on the regression of a density map, performs the counting procedure by localizing each single object. This key difference allows us to provide not only an accurate count but the position of every counted object, information that can be critical in some areas such as precision agriculture. The method is designed in two steps: first, a CNN is in charge of mapping arbitrary objects to blob-like structures. Then, using a Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) filter, we are able to gather the position of all detected objects. We also propose a semi-adversarial training procedure that, combined with the former design, improves the result by a large margin. After evaluating the method on two public benchmarks of isometric objects, we stay on par with the state of the art while being able to provide extra position information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.neunet.2021.10.010
Neural Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Object counting,Deep learning,Convolutional neural networks,Adversarial training
Journal
145
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0893-6080
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier Rodriguez-Vazquez110.35
Adrian Alvarez-Fernandez210.35
Martín Molina313414.28
Pascual Campoy443646.75