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CountGD: Multi-Modal Open-World Counting
Niki Amini-Naieni
University of Oxford
We propose CountGD, the first open-world counting model that can count any object specified by text only, visual examples only, or both together. CountGD extends the Grounding DINO architecture and adds components to enable specifying the object with visual examples. This new capability – being able to specify the target object by multi-modalites (text and exemplars) – lead to an improvement in counting accuracy. CountGD is powering multiple products and has been applied to problems across different domains including counting large populations of penguins to monitor the influence of climate change, counting buildings from satellite images, and counting seals for conservation.
GorillaWatch: Advancing Gorilla Re-Identification and Population Monitoring with AI
Maximilian von Klinski
Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Accurate monitoring of endangered gorilla populations is critical for conservation efforts in the field, where scientists currently rely on labor-intensive manual video labeling methods. The GorillaWatch project applies visual AI to provide robust re-identification of individual gorillas and generate local population estimates in wildlife encounters.
This Gets Under Your Skin – The Art of Skin Type Classification
Markus Hinsche
Thea Care
Niki Amini-Naieni
University of Oxford
Niki Amini-Naieni is a DPhil student focusing on developing foundation model capabilities for visual understanding of the open world at the Visual Geometry Group (VGG), Oxford supervised by Andrew Zisserman. In the past, Niki has consulted with Amazon and other companies in robotics and computer vision, interned at SpaceX, and studied computer science and engineering at Cornell.
Maximilian von Klinski
Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Maximilian von Klinski is a Computer Science student at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut and is currently working on the GorillaWatch project alongside seven fellow students.