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Generating natural language descriptions for videos, i.e., video captioning, essentially requires step-by-step reasoning along the generation process. For example, to generate the sentence "a man is shooting a basketball", we need to first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Ganchao Tan , Daqing Liu , Meng Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha

Large-scale video generative models have recently demonstrated strong visual capabilities, enabling the prediction of future frames that adhere to the logical and physical cues in the current observation. In this work, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Stylized visual captioning aims to generate image or video descriptions with specific styles, making them more attractive and emotionally appropriate. One major challenge with this task is the lack of paired stylized captions for visual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Dingyi Yang , Hongyu Chen , Xinglin Hou , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Qin Jin

Training image captioning models using teacher forcing results in very generic samples, whereas more distinctive captions can be very useful in retrieval applications or to produce alternative texts describing images for accessibility.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Antoine Chaffin , Ewa Kijak , Vincent Claveau

With the rapid growth of video data on the internet, video summarization is becoming a very important AI technology. However, due to the high labelling cost of video summarization, existing studies have to be conducted on small-scale…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Cairong Zhao , Chutian Wang , Zifan Song , Guosheng Hu , Haonan Chen , Xiaofan Zhai

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

Learning visual feature representations for video analysis is a daunting task that requires a large amount of training samples and a proper generalization framework. Many of the current state of the art methods for video captioning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Oliver Nina , Washington Garcia , Scott Clouse , Alper Yilmaz

Domain generalization (DG) attempts to generalize a model trained on single or multiple source domains to the unseen target domain. Benefiting from the success of Visual-and-Language Pre-trained models in recent years, we argue that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Geng Liu , Yuxi Wang

Generating fine-grained video descriptions is a fundamental challenge in video understanding. In this work, we introduce Tarsier, a family of large-scale video-language models designed to generate high-quality video descriptions. Tarsier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Jiawei Wang , Liping Yuan , Yuchen Zhang , Haomiao Sun

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities to downstream tasks. However, existing prompt tuning based frameworks need to parallelize learnable textual inputs for all categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hao Tan , Jun Li , Yizhuang Zhou , Jun Wan , Zhen Lei , Xiangyu Zhang

Accelerated by the tremendous increase in Internet bandwidth and storage space, video data has been generated, published and spread explosively, becoming an indispensable part of today's big data. In this paper, we focus on reviewing two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Zuxuan Wu , Ting Yao , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang

While most conversational AI systems focus on textual dialogue only, conditioning utterances on visual context (when it's available) can lead to more realistic conversations. Unfortunately, a major challenge for incorporating visual context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Arsha Nagrani , Cordelia Schmid

This paper proposes a network architecture to perform variable length semantic video generation using captions. We adopt a new perspective towards video generation where we allow the captions to be combined with the long-term and short-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Tanya Marwah , Gaurav Mittal , Vineeth N. Balasubramanian

Generating temporally coherent high fidelity video is an important milestone in generative modeling research. We make progress towards this milestone by proposing a diffusion model for video generation that shows very promising initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans , Alexey Gritsenko , William Chan , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Enhancing the diversity of sentences to describe video contents is an important problem arising in recent video captioning research. In this paper, we explore this problem from a novel perspective of customizing video captions by imitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yitian Yuan , Lin Ma , Wenwu Zhu

The application of video captioning models aims at translating the content of videos by using accurate natural language. Due to the complex nature inbetween object interaction in the video, the comprehensive understanding of spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yutao Jin , Bin Liu , Jing Wang

Video captioning aims to describe video contents using natural language format that involves understanding and interpreting scenes, actions and events that occurs simultaneously on the view. Current approaches have mainly concentrated on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Antoine Hanna-Asaad , Decky Aspandi , Titus Zaharia

Recent years have seen many audio-domain text-to-music generation models that rely on large amounts of text-audio pairs for training. However, symbolic-domain controllable music generation has lagged behind partly due to the lack of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weihan Xu , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov , Hao-Wen Dong

One of the recent trends in vision problems is to use natural language captions to describe the objects of interest. This approach can overcome some limitations of traditional methods that rely on bounding boxes or category annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Pha Nguyen , Kha Gia Quach , Kris Kitani , Khoa Luu

Recent video action recognition methods have shown excellent performance by adapting large-scale pre-trained language-image models to the video domain. However, language models contain rich common sense priors - the scene contexts that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiaodan Hu , Chuhang Zou , Suchen Wang , Jaechul Kim , Narendra Ahuja