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Over the past fifteen years (2010\u20132025), this field has undergone a profound technological transformation, shifting from traditional machine vision methods relying on handcrafted features to a data-driven paradigm based on deep learning. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive and systematic review of this rapidly evolving research area, with technological evolution as the core narrative thread. First, we review early traditional methods, analyzing the application of sensor-based and template-matching technologies in controlled environments, as well as their core limitations in complex industrial scenarios. Subsequently, this paper focuses on exploring how the introduction of deep learning has reshaped the landscape of counting tasks, and elaborates on the breakthrough progress of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Transformer architectures, the recently emerging Mamba state space model, and Large Foundation Models in addressing key challenges including occlusion, object overlap, multi-scale variation, and dense object counting. In particular, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the paradigm shift from Class-Specific Counting to Class-Agnostic Counting (CAC) and Exemplar-Free Counting. This trend significantly reduces the reliance on large-scale annotated data and greatly enhances the generalization ability of models in open-world scenarios. Additionally, this paper systematically organizes mainstream datasets in the field, including FSC-147, NWPU-MOC, and OmniCount-191, and compares core evaluation metrics such as Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and the PrACo metric system. In response to the core technical challenges faced by current methods, including high annotation costs, weak cross-domain adaptability, and strict real-time requirements in industrial scenarios, this paper proposes key future research directions including lightweight model design, unsupervised learning, multi-modal fusion, and Prompt-based interactive counting. 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