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The goal of fine-grained image description generation techniques is to learn detailed information from images and simulate human-like descriptions that provide coherent and comprehensive textual details about the image content. Currently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yifan Zhang , Chunzhen Lin , Donglin Cao , Dazhen Lin

There is considerable interest in the task of automatically generating image captions. However, evaluation is challenging. Existing automatic evaluation metrics are primarily sensitive to n-gram overlap, which is neither necessary nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Peter Anderson , Basura Fernando , Mark Johnson , Stephen Gould

Current image captioning methods are usually trained via (penalized) maximum likelihood estimation. However, the log-likelihood score of a caption does not correlate well with human assessments of quality. Standard syntactic evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Siqi Liu , Zhenhai Zhu , Ning Ye , Sergio Guadarrama , Kevin Murphy

Automatically evaluating the quality of image captions can be very challenging since human language is quite flexible that there can be various expressions for the same meaning. Most of the current captioning metrics rely on token level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Chao Zeng , Tiesong Zhao , Sam Kwong

Automated image captioning has the potential to be a useful tool for people with vision impairments. Images taken by this user group are often noisy, which leads to incorrect and even unsafe model predictions. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lu Yu , Malvina Nikandrou , Jiali Jin , Verena Rieser

Image captioning is a challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate a natural language description of an image. Most recent researches follow the encoder-decoder framework which depends heavily on the previous generated words for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou , Zhendong Mao , Jianlong Tan

Composed image retrieval (CIR) searches a corpus with a reference image and a text describing how to modify it. Despite rapid progress from triplet-trained compositors to zero-shot and generative methods, essentially all systems share one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Amsisan Tran , Baogh Le , Tuan Kiet Pham , Sui Yang Guang

Automatic image description systems are commonly trained and evaluated using crowdsourced, human-generated image descriptions. The best-performing system is then determined using some measure of similarity to the reference data (BLEU,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Emiel van Miltenburg

The task of generating natural language descriptions from images has received a lot of attention in recent years. Consequently, it is becoming increasingly important to evaluate such image captioning approaches in an automatic manner. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Mert Kilickaya , Aykut Erdem , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Erkut Erdem

The progress of composed image retrieval (CIR), a popular research direction in image retrieval, where a combined visual and textual query is used, is held back by the absence of high-quality training and evaluation data. We introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bill Psomas , George Retsinas , Nikos Efthymiadis , Panagiotis Filntisis , Yannis Avrithis , Petros Maragos , Ondrej Chum , Giorgos Tolias

Despite considerable progress, state of the art image captioning models produce generic captions, leaving out important image details. Furthermore, these systems may even misrepresent the image in order to produce a simpler caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Zeyu Wang , Berthy Feng , Karthik Narasimhan , Olga Russakovsky

Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving a target image specified by a query image and a relative text that describes a semantic modification to the query image. Existing methods in CIR struggle to accurately represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Eric Xing , Pranavi Kolouju , Robert Pless , Abby Stylianou , Nathan Jacobs

We address the task of evaluating image description generation systems. We propose a novel image-aware metric for this task: VIFIDEL. It estimates the faithfulness of a generated caption with respect to the content of the actual image,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Pranava Madhyastha , Josiah Wang , Lucia Specia

The task of image captioning has recently been gaining popularity, and with it the complex task of evaluating the quality of image captioning models. In this work, we present the first survey and taxonomy of over 70 different image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Uri Berger , Gabriel Stanovsky , Omri Abend , Lea Frermann

Composed image retrieval extends content-based image retrieval systems by enabling users to search using reference images and captions that describe their intention. Despite great progress in developing image-text compositors to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xu Zhang , Zhedong Zheng , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

The image captioning task is about to generate suitable descriptions from images. For this task there can be several challenges such as accuracy, fluency and diversity. However there are few metrics that can cover all these properties while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chao Zeng , Sam Kwong

This paper presents a novel approach for automatically generating image descriptions: visual detectors, language models, and multimodal similarity models learnt directly from a dataset of image captions. We use multiple instance learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Hao Fang , Saurabh Gupta , Forrest Iandola , Rupesh Srivastava , Li Deng , Piotr Dollár , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Margaret Mitchell , John C. Platt , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Geoffrey Zweig

Composed image retrieval (CIR) enables users to search images using a reference image combined with textual modifications. Recent advances in vision-language models have improved CIR, but dataset limitations remain a barrier. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Pranavi Kolouju , Eric Xing , Robert Pless , Nathan Jacobs , Abby Stylianou

Generating natural language descriptions of images is an important capability for a robot or other visual-intelligence driven AI agent that may need to communicate with human users about what it is seeing. Such image captioning methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Li Zhang , Flood Sung , Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Image captioning aims at automatically generating descriptions of an image in natural language. This is a challenging problem in the field of artificial intelligence that has recently received significant attention in the computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Hassan Maleki Galandouz , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Mehrnoush Shamsfard