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Automatically translating images to texts involves image scene understanding and language modeling. In this paper, we propose a novel model, termed RefineCap, that refines the output vocabulary of the language decoder using decoder-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yekun Chai , Shuo Jin , Junliang Xing

An image captioning model flexibly switching its language pattern, e.g., descriptiveness and length, should be useful since it can be applied to diverse applications. However, despite the dramatic improvement in generative vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kuniaki Saito , Donghyun Kim , Kwanyong Park , Atsushi Hashimoto , Yoshitaka Ushiku

So far, research to generate captions from images has been carried out from the viewpoint that a caption holds sufficient information for an image. If it is possible to generate an image that is close to the input image from a generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Keisuke Hagiwara , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Video captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions according to the content, where representation learning plays a crucial role. Existing methods are mainly developed within the supervised learning framework via word-by-word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Hanhua Ye , Guorong Li , Yuankai Qi , Shuhui Wang , Qingming Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Image captioning, an important vision-language task, often requires a tremendous number of finely labeled image-caption pairs for learning the underlying alignment between images and texts. In this paper, we proposed a multimodal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Changrong Xiao , Sean Xin Xu , Kunpeng Zhang

The development of CLIP [Radford et al., 2021] has sparked a debate on whether language supervision can result in vision models with more transferable representations than traditional image-only methods. Our work studies this question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Shibani Santurkar , Yann Dubois , Rohan Taori , Percy Liang , Tatsunori Hashimoto

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

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

Image captioning, which generates natural language descriptions of the visual information in an image, is a crucial task in vision-language research. Previous models have typically addressed this task by aligning the generative capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xinting Huang , Yuchen Ren

Text-to-image diffusion models achieved a remarkable leap in capabilities over the last few years, enabling high-quality and diverse synthesis of images from a textual prompt. However, even the most advanced models often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Eyal Segalis , Dani Valevski , Danny Lumen , Yossi Matias , Yaniv Leviathan

Despite the fact that image captioning models have been able to generate impressive descriptions for a given image, challenges remain: (1) the controllability and diversity of existing models are still far from satisfactory; (2) models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Zhangzi Zhu , Tianlei Wang , Hong Qu

Image caption generation is one of the most challenging problems at the intersection of vision and language domains. In this work, we propose a realistic captioning task where the input scenes may incorporate visual objects with no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Berkan Demirel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Image captioning (IC) refers to the automatic generation of natural language descriptions for images, with applications ranging from social media content generation to assisting individuals with visual impairments. While most research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Gabriel Bromonschenkel , Alessandro L. Koerich , Thiago M. Paixão , Hilário Tomaz Alves de Oliveira

Automated audio captioning is a cross-modal translation task that aims to generate natural language descriptions for given audio clips. This task has received increasing attention with the release of freely available datasets in recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinhao Mei , Xubo Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

This paper contributes to cross-lingual image annotation and retrieval in terms of data and baseline methods. We propose COCO-CN, a novel dataset enriching MS-COCO with manually written Chinese sentences and tags. For more effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Xirong Li , Chaoxi Xu , Xiaoxu Wang , Weiyu Lan , Zhengxiong Jia , Gang Yang , Jieping Xu

Training large-scale image captioning (IC) models demands access to a rich and diverse set of training examples, gathered from the wild, often from noisy alt-text data. However, recent modeling approaches to IC often fall short in terms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Piyush Sharma , Soravit Changpinyo , Ashish Thapliyal , Radu Soricut

We introduce an inference technique to produce discriminative context-aware image captions (captions that describe differences between images or visual concepts) using only generic context-agnostic training data (captions that describe a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Ramakrishna Vedantam , Samy Bengio , Kevin Murphy , Devi Parikh , Gal Chechik

Automated image captioning using the content from the image is very appealing when done by harnessing the capability of computer vision and natural language processing. Extensive research has been done in the field with a major focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wasim Akram Khan , Anil Kumar Vuppala

There is a scarcity of multilingual vision-language models that properly account for the perceptual differences that are reflected in image captions across languages and cultures. In this work, through a multimodal, multilingual retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kyle Buettner , Adriana Kovashka

Figures of speech help people express abstract concepts and evoke stronger emotions than literal expressions, thereby making texts more creative and engaging. Due to its pervasive and fundamental character, figurative language understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Huiyuan Lai , Antonio Toral , Malvina Nissim