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Humans can obtain the knowledge of novel visual concepts from language descriptions, and we thus use the few-shot image classification task to investigate whether a machine learning model can have this capability. Our proposed model, LIDE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Kosuke Nishida , Kyosuke Nishida , Shuichi Nishioka

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 evaluation of machine-generated image captions is a complex and evolving challenge. With the advent of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), image captioning has become a core task, increasing the need for robust and reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Linguistic style is an essential part of written communication, with the power to affect both clarity and attractiveness. With recent advances in vision and language, we can start to tackle the problem of generating image captions that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Alexander Mathews , Lexing Xie , Xuming He

Image colorization is a well-known problem in computer vision. However, due to the ill-posed nature of the task, image colorization is inherently challenging. Though several attempts have been made by researchers to make the colorization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Subhankar Ghosh , Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

Statistical learning methods are widely utilized in tackling complex problems due to their flexibility, good predictive performance and its ability to capture complex relationships among variables. Additionally, recently developed automatic…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-14 Natalia da Silva , Ignacio Alvarez-Castro , Leonardo Moreno , Andrés Sosa

Many top-performing image captioning models rely solely on object features computed with an object detection model to generate image descriptions. However, recent studies propose to directly use scene graphs to introduce information about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Victor Milewski , Marie-Francine Moens , Iacer Calixto

This study explores the ability of Image Captioning (IC) models to decode masked visual content sourced from diverse datasets. Our findings reveal the IC model's capability to generate captions from masked images, closely resembling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhicheng Du , Zhaotian Xie , Huazhang Ying , Likun Zhang , Peiwu Qin

One of the ways blind people understand their surroundings is by clicking images and relying on descriptions generated by image captioning systems. Current work on captioning images for the visually impaired do not use the textual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hiba Ahsan , Nikita Bhalla , Daivat Bhatt , Kaivankumar Shah

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

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual representation learning, such advances have focused on building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Austin Stone , Hagen Soltau , Robert Geirhos , Xi Yi , Ye Xia , Bingyi Cao , Kaifeng Chen , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Evaluating the quality of automatically generated image descriptions is challenging, requiring metrics that capture various aspects such as grammaticality, coverage, correctness, and truthfulness. While human evaluation offers valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jia-Hong Huang , Hongyi Zhu , Yixian Shen , Stevan Rudinac , Alessio M. Pacces , Evangelos Kanoulas

Humans are able to describe image contents with coarse to fine details as they wish. However, most image captioning models are intention-agnostic which can not generate diverse descriptions according to different user intentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shizhe Chen , Qin Jin , Peng Wang , Qi Wu

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

Automatically creating the description of an image using any natural languages sentence like English is a very challenging task. It requires expertise of both image processing as well as natural language processing. This paper discuss about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Parth Shah , Vishvajit Bakarola , Supriya Pati

This paper explores new evaluation perspectives for image captioning and introduces a noun translation task that achieves comparative image caption generation performance by translating from a set of nouns to captions. This implies that in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Hendrik Heuer , Christof Monz , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

We present Direct Assessment, a method for manually assessing the quality of automatically-generated captions for video. Evaluating the accuracy of video captions is particularly difficult because for any given video clip there is no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yvette Graham , George Awad , Alan Smeaton

Recent advances in language and vision push forward the research of captioning a single image to describing visual differences between image pairs. Suppose there are two images, I_1 and I_2, and the task is to generate a description W_{1,2}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 An Yan , Xin Eric Wang , Tsu-Jui Fu , William Yang Wang

Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi