@@ -13,12 +13,6 @@ Thus, it is necessary to rethink the definition of object detection in such scen
In order to solve the practical industrial application problems and promote the academic research of the problem, we put forward the necessary elements of the task:
*problem definition*, *Locount dataset*, *evaluation protocol* and *baseline method*. This work was accepted by the International Artificial Intelligence Conference AAAI 2021.

Figure 1: The previous object recognition datasets in grocery stores have focused on image classification, i.e., (a) Supermarket
@@ -40,8 +34,9 @@ The dataset includes 9 big subclasses, i.e., Baby Stuffs (e.g., *Baby Diapers* a
Electrical Appliances (e.g., *Microwave Oven* and *Socket*), Storage Appliances (e.g., *Trash* and *Stool*), Kitchen Utensils (e.g., *Forks* and *Food Box*), and Stationery and Sporting Goods (e.g., *Skate* and *Notebook*).
There are various factors challenging the performance of algorithms, such as scale changes, illumination variations, occlusion, similar appearance, clutter background, blurring and deformation, *etc*.
![Figure 2: Category hierarchy of the large-scale localization and counting dataset in