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Image Captioning is a task that requires models to acquire a multi-modal understanding of the world and to express this understanding in natural language text. While the state-of-the-art for this task has rapidly improved in terms of n-gram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Annika Lindh , Robert J. Ross , Abhijit Mahalunkar , Giancarlo Salton , John D. Kelleher

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) seeks to address the challenges posed by linguistic polysemy and ambiguity in translation tasks by incorporating visual information. A key bottleneck in current MMT research is the effective utilization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chenyu Lu , Shiliang Sun , Jing Zhao , Nan Zhang , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang

In this paper we explore the bi-directional mapping between images and their sentence-based descriptions. We propose learning this mapping using a recurrent neural network. Unlike previous approaches that map both sentences and images to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Xinlei Chen , C. Lawrence Zitnick

We propose a visual-linguistic representation learning approach within a self-supervised learning framework by introducing a new operation, loss, and data augmentation strategy. First, we generate diverse features for the image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jaeyoo Park , Bohyung Han

We propose a framework for multimodal sentiment analysis and emotion recognition using convolutional neural network-based feature extraction from text and visual modalities. We obtain a performance improvement of 10% over the state of the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Erik Cambria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Amir Hussain , R. B. V. Subramaanyam

Image Captioning, or the automatic generation of descriptions for images, is one of the core problems in Computer Vision and has seen considerable progress using Deep Learning Techniques. We propose to use Inception-ResNet Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Sulabh Katiyar , Samir Kumar Borgohain

Image Captioning for state-of-the-art VLMs has significantly improved over time; however, this comes at the cost of increased computational complexity, making them less accessible for resource-constrained applications such as mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sania Waheed , Na Min An

We present a mutual information-based framework for unsupervised image-to-image translation. Our MCMI approach treats single-cycle image translation models as modules that can be used recurrently in a multi-cycle translation setting where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiang Xu , Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori , Manolis Savva

There are common semantics shared across text and images. Given a sentence in a source language, whether depicting the visual scene helps translation into a target language? Existing multimodal neural machine translation methods (MNMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Quanyu Long , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities, yet their potential for vision-only tasks remains underexplored. We investigate MLLMs as training-free similarity estimators for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Bahey Tharwat , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Pavel Suma , Ian Reid , Giorgos Tolias

Large language models (LLMs) have been effectively used for many computer vision tasks, including image classification. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective approach for zero-shot image classification using multimodal LLMs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Mahmoud Afifi , Alec Go

We propose a new and fully end-to-end approach for multimodal translation where the source text encoder modulates the entire visual input processing using conditional batch normalization, in order to compute the most informative image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

In this paper, we present a model which takes as input a corpus of images with relevant spoken captions and finds a correspondence between the two modalities. We employ a pair of convolutional neural networks to model visual objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-13 David Harwath , James Glass

Achieving deep alignment between vision and language remains a central challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). These models often fail to fully leverage visual input, defaulting to strong language priors. Our approach first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Aarti Ghatkesar , Ganesh Venkatesh

Image captioning aims to automatically generate a natural language description of a given image, and most state-of-the-art models have adopted an encoder-decoder framework. The framework consists of a convolution neural network (CNN)-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jun Yu , Jing Li , Zhou Yu , Qingming Huang

Cross-lingual semantic textual similarity systems estimate the degree of the meaning similarity between two sentences, each in a different language. State-of-the-art algorithms usually employ machine translation and combine vast amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Tomáš Brychcín

Hypernymy, textual entailment, and image captioning can be seen as special cases of a single visual-semantic hierarchy over words, sentences, and images. In this paper we advocate for explicitly modeling the partial order structure of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Ivan Vendrov , Ryan Kiros , Sanja Fidler , Raquel Urtasun

Automatic captioning of images is a task that combines the challenges of image analysis and text generation. One important aspect in captioning is the notion of attention: How to decide what to describe and in which order. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sen He , Wentong Liao , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Michael Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn , Nicolas Pugeault

Recent image captioning models are achieving impressive results based on popular metrics, i.e., BLEU, CIDEr, and SPICE. However, focusing on the most popular metrics that only consider the overlap between the generated captions and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Jiuniu Wang , Wenjia Xu , Qingzhong Wang , Antoni B. Chan

Change captioning aims to describe the difference between a pair of similar images. Its key challenge is how to learn a stable difference representation under pseudo changes caused by viewpoint change. In this paper, we address this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yunbin Tu , Liang Li , Li Su , Zheng-Jun Zha , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang