Object Counting with GPT-4o and GPT-5: A Comparative Study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03233v1
• Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:07:13 GMT
• Title: Object Counting with GPT-4o and GPT-5: A Comparative Study
• Authors: Richard Füzesséry, Kaziwa Saleh, Sándor Szénási, Zoltán Vámossy,
• Abstract summary: Zero-shot object counting attempts to estimate the number of object instances belonging to novel categories that the vision model performing the counting has never encountered during training.<n>Existing methods typically require large amount of annotated data and often require visual exemplars to guide the counting process.<n>Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools with remarkable reasoning and data understanding abilities, which suggest the possibility of utilizing them for counting tasks without any supervision.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Zero-shot object counting attempts to estimate the number of object instances belonging to novel categories that the vision model performing the counting has never encountered during training. Existing methods typically require large amount of annotated data and often require visual exemplars to guide the counting process. However, large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools with remarkable reasoning and data understanding abilities, which suggest the possibility of utilizing them for counting tasks without any supervision. In this work we aim to leverage the visual capabilities of two multi-modal LLMs, GPT-4o and GPT-5, to perform object counting in a zero-shot manner using only textual prompts. We evaluate both models on the FSC-147 and CARPK datasets and provide a comparative analysis. Our findings show that the models achieve performance comparable to the state-of-the-art zero-shot approaches on FSC-147, in some cases, even surpass them.

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