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We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

Multi-modal machine translation aims at translating the source sentence into a different language in the presence of the paired image. Previous work suggests that additional visual information only provides dispensable help to translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Pengcheng Yang , Boxing Chen , Pei Zhang , Xu Sun

Multilingual translation supports multiple translation directions by projecting all languages in a shared space, but the translation quality is undermined by the difference between languages in the text-only modality, especially when the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jian Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Yuwei Yin , Jiaqi Bai , Bing Wang , Jiaheng Liu , Xinnian Liang , Linzheng Cahi , Liqun Yang , Zhoujun Li

Image captioning has so far been explored mostly in English, as most available datasets are in this language. However, the application of image captioning should not be restricted by language. Only few studies have been conducted for image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Weiyu Lan , Xirong Li , Jianfeng Dong

Image captioning is an important but challenging task, applicable to virtual assistants, editing tools, image indexing, and support of the disabled. Its challenges are due to the variability and ambiguity of possible image descriptions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jyoti Aneja , Aditya Deshpande , Alexander Schwing

Computer vision often treats human perception as homogeneous: an implicit assumption that visual stimuli are perceived similarly by everyone. This assumption is reflected in the way researchers collect datasets and train vision models. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Andre Ye , Sebastin Santy , Jena D. Hwang , Amy X. Zhang , Ranjay Krishna

Massive web-crawled image-text datasets lay the foundation for recent progress in multimodal learning. These datasets are designed with the goal of training a model to do well on standard computer vision benchmarks, many of which, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Thao Nguyen , Matthew Wallingford , Sebastin Santy , Wei-Chiu Ma , Sewoong Oh , Ludwig Schmidt , Pang Wei Koh , Ranjay Krishna

In state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation, an attention mechanism is used during decoding to enhance the translation. At every step, the decoder uses this mechanism to focus on different parts of the source sentence to gather the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stephane Dupont

Deep neural networks have achieved promising results in automatic image captioning due to their effective representation learning and context-based content generation capabilities. As a prominent type of deep features used in many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ali Abedi , Hossein Karshenas , Peyman Adibi

We introduce and demonstrate how to effectively train multilingual machine translation models with pixel representations. We experiment with two different data settings with a variety of language and script coverage, demonstrating improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Elizabeth Salesky , Neha Verma , Philipp Koehn , Matt Post

In this paper, we describe our submissions to the WMT17 Multimodal Translation Task. For Task 1 (multimodal translation), our best scoring system is a purely textual neural translation of the source image caption to the target language. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Jindřich Helcl , Jindřich Libovický

We present a simple but effective approach for leveraging Wikipedia for neural machine translation as well as cross-lingual tasks of image captioning and dependency parsing without using any direct supervision from external parallel data or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli , Chris Callison-Burch , Derry Tanti Wijaya

We propose a novel discriminative model that learns embeddings from multilingual and multi-modal data, meaning that our model can take advantage of images and descriptions in multiple languages to improve embedding quality. To that end, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Iacer Calixto , Qun Liu , Nick Campbell

Image captioning is a research area of immense importance, aiming to generate natural language descriptions for visual content in the form of still images. The advent of deep learning and more recently vision-language pre-training…

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Recently, a large number of studies have shown that the introduction of visual information can effectively improve the effect of neural machine translation (NMT). Its effectiveness largely depends on the availability of a large number of…

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Pre-trained language models have been shown to improve performance in many natural language tasks substantially. Although the early focus of such models was single language pre-training, recent advances have resulted in cross-lingual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ozan Caglayan , Menekse Kuyu , Mustafa Sercan Amac , Pranava Madhyastha , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem , Lucia Specia

We address the task of text translation on the How2 dataset using a state of the art transformer-based multimodal approach. The question we ask ourselves is whether visual features can support the translation process, in particular, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zixiu Wu , Julia Ive , Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

Unsupervised image-to-image translation is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Given an image in the source domain, the goal is to learn the conditional distribution of corresponding images in the target domain, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Xun Huang , Ming-Yu Liu , Serge Belongie , Jan Kautz

Multilingual image captioning has recently been tackled by training with large-scale machine translated data, which is an expensive, noisy, and time-consuming process. Without requiring any multilingual caption data, we propose LMCap, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Rita Ramos , Bruno Martins , Desmond Elliott

Inspired by how the human brain employs a higher number of neural pathways when describing a highly focused subject, we show that deep attentive models used for the main vision-language task of image captioning, could be extended to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zanyar Zohourianshahzadi , Jugal K. Kalita