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Image captioning remains a fundamental task for vision language understanding, yet ground-truth supervision still relies predominantly on human-annotated references. Because human annotations reflect subjective preferences and expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhijiang Tang , Linhua Wang , Jiaxin Qi , Weihao Jiang , Peng Hou , Anxiang Zeng , Jianqiang Huang

In this work, we propose a new method for multi-person pose estimation which combines the traditional bottom-up and the top-down methods. Specifically, we perform the network feed-forwarding in a bottom-up manner, and then parse the poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Miaopeng Li , Zimeng Zhou , Jie Li , Xinguo Liu

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

It is always well believed that modeling relationships between objects would be helpful for representing and eventually describing an image. Nevertheless, there has not been evidence in support of the idea on image description generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Tao Mei

Existing image captioning systems are dedicated to generating narrative captions for images, which are spatially detached from the image in presentation. However, texts can also be used as decorations on the image to highlight the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yiqi Gao , Xinglin Hou , Yuanmeng Zhang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Peng Wang

Attention mechanisms have been widely used in Visual Question Answering (VQA) solutions due to their capacity to model deep cross-domain interactions. Analyzing attention maps offers us a perspective to find out limitations of current VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Wei Li , Zehuan Yuan , Xiangzhong Fang , Changhu Wang

In this paper, we address the problem of image captioning specifically for molecular translation where the result would be a predicted chemical notation in InChI format for a given molecular structure. Current approaches mainly follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Carola Sundaramoorthy , Lin Ziwen Kelvin , Mahak Sarin , Shubham Gupta

In a globalized world at the present epoch of generative intelligence, most of the manual labour tasks are automated with increased efficiency. This can support businesses to save time and money. A crucial component of generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Pranav Dandwate , Chaitanya Shahane , Vandana Jagtap , Shridevi C. Karande

Attention-based neural encoder-decoder frameworks have been widely used for image captioning. Many of these frameworks deploy their full focus on generating the caption from scratch by relying solely on the image features or the object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Fawaz Sammani , Mahmoud Elsayed

We consider the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a free-form, open-ended, question, expressed in natural language, the goal of VQA system is to provide accurate answer to this question with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tanzila Rahman , Shih-Han Chou , Leonid Sigal , Giuseppe Carenini

This study investigates the developmental interaction between top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) visual attention in robotic learning. Our goal is to understand how structured, human-like attentional behavior emerges through the mutual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hyogo Hiruma , Hiroshi Ito , Hiroki Mori , Tetsuya Ogata

Frequent interactions between individuals are a fundamental challenge for pose estimation algorithms. Current pipelines either use an object detector together with a pose estimator (top-down approach), or localize all body parts first and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Mu Zhou , Lucas Stoffl , Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis , Alexander Mathis

Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

Image captioning models aim at connecting Vision and Language by providing natural language descriptions of input images. In the past few years, the task has been tackled by learning parametric models and proposing visual feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

In this paper, we study the problem of image-text matching. Inferring the latent semantic alignment between objects or other salient stuff (e.g. snow, sky, lawn) and the corresponding words in sentences allows to capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xi Chen , Gang Hua , Houdong Hu , Xiaodong He

This paper addresses the challenging task of video captioning which aims to generate descriptions for video data. Recently, the attention-based encoder-decoder structures have been widely used in video captioning. In existing literature,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Tao Jin , Siyu Huang , Yingming Li , Zhongfei Zhang

Recently, video captioning has been attracting an increasing amount of interest, due to its potential for improving accessibility and information retrieval. While existing methods rely on different kinds of visual features and model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Xiang Long , Chuang Gan , Gerard de Melo

Automatically describing video content with natural language has been attracting much attention in CV and NLP communities. Most existing methods predict one word at a time, and by feeding the last generated word back as input at the next…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Huanhou Xiao , Jinglun Shi

This paper analyzes the predictions of image captioning models with attention mechanisms beyond visualizing the attention itself. We develop variants of layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) and gradient-based explanation methods, tailored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jiamei Sun , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek , Alexander Binder