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Image captioning is the task of automatically generating sentences that describe an input image in the best way possible. The most successful techniques for automatically generating image captions have recently used attentive deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Zanyar Zohourianshahzadi , Jugal K. Kalita

Joint visual attention is characterized by two or more individuals looking at a common target at the same time. The ability to identify joint attention in scenes, the people involved, and their common target, is fundamental to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Daniel Harari , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Shimon Ullman

What does human gaze reveal about a users' intents and to which extend can these intents be inferred or even visualized? Gaze was proposed as an implicit source of information to predict the target of visual search and, more recently, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Hosnieh Sattar , Mario Fritz , Andreas Bulling

Attention mechanisms have attracted considerable interest in image captioning because of its powerful performance. Existing attention-based models use feedback information from the caption generator as guidance to determine which of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Zhihao Zhu , Zhan Xue , Zejian Yuan

Making accurate inferences about other individuals' locus of attention is essential for human social interactions and will be important for AI to effectively interact with humans. In this study, we compare how a CNN (convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Nicole X. Han , William Yang Wang , Miguel P. Eckstein

Emotion recognition,as a step toward mind reading,seeks to infer internal states from external cues.Most existing methods rely on explicit signals-such as facial expressions,speech,or gestures-that reflect only bodily responses and overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Mengke Song , Yuge Xie , Qi Cui , Luming Li , Xinyu Liu , Guotao Wang , Chenglizhao Chen , Shanchen Pang

Image captioning is an interdisciplinary research problem that stands between computer vision and natural language processing. The task is to generate a textual description of the content of an image. The typical model used for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Loris Bazzani , Tobias Domhan , Felix Hieber

Image Captioning is a task that combines computer vision and natural language processing, where it aims to generate descriptive legends for images. It is a two-fold process relying on accurate image understanding and correct language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ahmed Elhagry , Karima Kadaoui

Every day, the human brain processes an immense volume of visual information, relying on intricate neural mechanisms to perceive and interpret these stimuli. Recent breakthroughs in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Matteo Ferrante , Furkan Ozcelik , Tommaso Boccato , Rufin VanRullen , Nicola Toschi

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

The aim of image captioning is to generate textual description of a given image. Though seemingly an easy task for humans, it is challenging for machines as it requires the ability to comprehend the image (computer vision) and consequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Anubhav Shrimal , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Image captioning has recently demonstrated impressive progress largely owing to the introduction of neural network algorithms trained on curated dataset like MS-COCO. Often work in this field is motivated by the promise of deployment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Pierre Dognin , Igor Melnyk , Youssef Mroueh , Inkit Padhi , Mattia Rigotti , Jarret Ross , Yair Schiff , Richard A. Young , Brian Belgodere

Following the gaze of people inside videos is an important signal for understanding people and their actions. In this paper, we present an approach for following gaze across views by predicting where a particular person is looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Adrià Recasens , Carl Vondrick , Aditya Khosla , Antonio Torralba

The internal workings of modern deep learning models stay often unclear to an external observer, although spatial attention mechanisms are involved. The idea of this work is to translate these spatial attentions into natural language to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Philipp Sadler

Image captioning is a longstanding problem in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. To date, researchers have produced impressive state-of-the-art performance in the age of deep learning. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zihang Meng , David Yang , Xuefei Cao , Ashish Shah , Ser-Nam Lim

When humans describe a visual scene, they do not process the entire image uniformly; instead, they selectively fixate on regions relevant to their intended description. In contrast, current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) attend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Junha Song , Byeongho Heo , Geonmo Gu , Jaegul Choo , Dongyoon Han , Sangdoo Yun

Image captioning is one of the most challenging tasks in AI, which aims to automatically generate textual sentences for an image. Recent methods for image captioning follow encoder-decoder framework that transforms the sequence of salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou

Advanced multimodal AI agents can now collaborate with users to solve challenges in the world. Yet, these emerging contextual AI systems rely on explicit communication channels between the user and system. We hypothesize that implicit…

Joint attention is a core, early-developing form of social interaction. It is based on our ability to discriminate the third party objects that other people are looking at. While it has been shown that people can accurately determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Tao Gao , Daniel Harari , Joshua Tenenbaum , Shimon Ullman

Automatically generating a natural language description of an image is a task close to the heart of image understanding. In this paper, we present a multi-model neural network method closely related to the human visual system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Zhongliang Yang , Yu-Jin Zhang , Sadaqat ur Rehman , Yongfeng Huang