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Dense video captioning is a task of localizing interesting events from an untrimmed video and producing textual description (captions) for each localized event. Most of the previous works in dense video captioning are solely based on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu

Video captioning is one of the challenging problems at the intersection of vision and language, having many real-life applications in video retrieval, video surveillance, assisting visually challenged people, Human-machine interface, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Nasib Ullah , Partha Pratim Mohanta

Generative models that can model and predict sequences of future events can, in principle, learn to capture complex real-world phenomena, such as physical interactions. However, a central challenge in video prediction is that the future is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Manoj Kumar , Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Dumitru Erhan , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine , Laurent Dinh , Durk Kingma

In this paper, we introduce VideoNarrator, a novel training-free pipeline designed to generate dense video captions that offer a structured snapshot of video content. These captions offer detailed narrations with precise timestamps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tz-Ying Wu , Tahani Trigui , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Anand Bodas , Subarna Tripathi

Real-time video commentary generation provides textual descriptions of ongoing events in videos. It supports accessibility and engagement in domains such as sports, esports, and livestreaming. Commentary generation involves two essential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Anum Afzal , Yuki Saito , Hiroya Takamura , Katsuhito Sudoh , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Graham Neubig , Florian Matthes , Tatsuya Ishigaki

In this paper, a self-guiding multimodal LSTM (sg-LSTM) image captioning model is proposed to handle uncontrolled imbalanced real-world image-sentence dataset. We collect FlickrNYC dataset from Flickr as our testbed with 306,165 images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yang Xian , Yingli Tian

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

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Video captioning models convert frames into visual tokens and generate descriptions with large language models (LLMs). Since encoding all frames is prohibitively expensive, uniform sampling is the default choice, but it enforces equal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Lianying Chao , Linfeng Yin , Peiyu Ren , Yifan Jiang , Qiaoyu Ren , Dingcheng Shan , Jing-cheng Pang , Sijie Wu , Xubin Li , Kai Zhang , Xin Chen

Generating video descriptions in natural language (a.k.a. video captioning) is a more challenging task than image captioning as the videos are intrinsically more complicated than images in two aspects. First, videos cover a broader range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Shizhe Chen , Jia Chen , Qin Jin

Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

Automatically describing video content with natural language is a fundamental challenge of multimedia. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), which models sequence dynamics, has attracted increasing attention on visual interpretation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Yingwei Pan , Tao Mei , Ting Yao , Houqiang Li , Yong Rui

Dense video captioning is an extremely challenging task since accurate and coherent description of events in a video requires holistic understanding of video contents as well as contextual reasoning of individual events. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jonghwan Mun , Linjie Yang , Zhou Ren , Ning Xu , Bohyung Han

Dense video captioning aims to identify the events of interest in an input video, and generate descriptive captions for each event. Previous approaches usually follow a two-stage generative process, which first proposes a segment for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Wanrong Zhu , Bo Pang , Ashish V. Thapliyal , William Yang Wang , Radu Soricut

Video captioning, the task of describing the content of a video, has seen some promising improvements in recent years with sequence-to-sequence models, but accurately learning the temporal and logical dynamics involved in the task still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Ramakanth Pasunuru , Mohit Bansal

Current image captioning approaches generate descriptions which lack specific information, such as named entities that are involved in the images. In this paper we propose a new task which aims to generate informative image captions, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Di Lu , Spencer Whitehead , Lifu Huang , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Dense video captioning is a challenging video understanding task which aims to simultaneously segment the video into a sequence of meaningful consecutive events and to generate detailed captions to accurately describe each event. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 AJ Piergiovanni , Ganesh Satish Mallya , Dahun Kim , Anelia Angelova

Recent advances of video captioning often employ a recurrent neural network (RNN) as the decoder. However, RNN is prone to diluting long-term information. Recent works have demonstrated memory network (MemNet) has the advantage of storing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Aming Wu , Yahong Han

Recently, automatic image caption generation has been an important focus of the work on multimodal translation task. Existing approaches can be roughly categorized into two classes, i.e., top-down and bottom-up, the former transfers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Wei Wei , Ling Cheng , Xianling Mao , Guangyou Zhou , Feida Zhu

Diverse video captioning aims to generate a set of sentences to describe the given video in various aspects. Mainstream methods are trained with independent pairs of a video and a caption from its ground-truth set without exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yifan Lu , Ziqi Zhang , Chunfeng Yuan , Peng Li , Yan Wang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu