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Change captioning generates descriptions that explicitly describe the differences between two visually similar images. Existing methods operate on static image pairs, thus ignoring the rich temporal dynamics of the change procedure, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiayang Sun , Zixin Guo , Min Cao , Guibo Zhu , Jorma Laaksonen

Supervised image captioning approaches have made great progress, but it is challenging to collect high-quality human-annotated image-text data. Recently, large-scale vision and language models (e.g., CLIP) and large-scale generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yiyu Wang , Hao Luo , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Fan Wang

Current image captioning works usually focus on generating descriptions in an autoregressive manner. However, there are limited works that focus on generating descriptions non-autoregressively, which brings more decoding diversity. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yufeng He , Zefan Cai , Xu Gan , Baobao Chang

Visual attention has shown usefulness in image captioning, with the goal of enabling a caption model to selectively focus on regions of interest. Existing models typically rely on top-down language information and learn attention implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Shi Chen , Qi Zhao

There is considerable interest in the task of automatically generating image captions. However, evaluation is challenging. Existing automatic evaluation metrics are primarily sensitive to n-gram overlap, which is neither necessary nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Peter Anderson , Basura Fernando , Mark Johnson , Stephen Gould

The past few years have witnessed renewed interest in NLP tasks at the interface between vision and language. One intensively-studied problem is that of automatically generating text from images. In this paper, we extend this problem to the…

Visual Storytelling is a challenging multimodal task between Vision & Language, where the purpose is to generate a story for a stream of images. Its difficulty lies on the fact that the story should be both grounded to the image sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Admitos Passadakis , Yingjin Song , Albert Gatt

While advanced image captioning systems are increasingly describing images coherently and exactly, recent progress in continual learning allows deep learning models to avoid catastrophic forgetting. However, the domain where image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Giang Nguyen , Tae Joon Jun , Trung Tran , Tolcha Yalew , Daeyoung Kim

Recently it has shown that the policy-gradient methods for reinforcement learning have been utilized to train deep end-to-end systems on natural language processing tasks. What's more, with the complexity of understanding image content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Haichao Shi , Peng Li , Bo Wang , Zhenyu Wang

Recent progress on automatic generation of image captions has shown that it is possible to describe the most salient information conveyed by images with accurate and meaningful sentences. In this paper, we propose an image caption system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Junqi Jin , Kun Fu , Runpeng Cui , Fei Sha , Changshui Zhang

Recent research has widely explored the problem of aesthetics assessment of images with generic content. However, few approaches have been specifically designed to predict the aesthetic quality of images containing human faces, which make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Simone Bianco , Luigi Celona , Raimondo Schettini

In this paper we explore the bi-directional mapping between images and their sentence-based descriptions. We propose learning this mapping using a recurrent neural network. Unlike previous approaches that map both sentences and images to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Xinlei Chen , C. Lawrence Zitnick

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

In this paper we study a brand new topic of interactive image captioning with human in the loop. Different from automated image captioning where a given test image is the sole input in the inference stage, we have access to both the test…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Zhengxiong Jia , Xirong Li

Image caption rating is becoming increasingly important because computer-generated captions are used extensively for descriptive annotation. However, rating the accuracy of captions in describing images is time-consuming and subjective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kezia Minni , Qiang Zhang , Monoshiz Mahbub Khan , Zhe Yu

Emotion is essential in spoken communication, yet most existing frameworks in speech emotion modeling rely on predefined categories or low-dimensional continuous attributes, which offer limited expressive capacity. Recent advances in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Tianhua Qi , Wenming Zheng , Björn W. Schuller , Zhaojie Luo , Haizhou Li

Humans possess the capacity to reason about the future based on a sparse collection of visual cues acquired over time. In order to emulate this ability, we introduce a novel task called Anticipation Captioning, which generates a caption for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Duc Minh Vo , Quoc-An Luong , Akihiro Sugimoto , Hideki Nakayama

Knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) involves questions that require world knowledge beyond the image to yield the correct answer. Large language models (LMs) like GPT-3 are particularly helpful for this task because of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yushi Hu , Hang Hua , Zhengyuan Yang , Weijia Shi , Noah A Smith , Jiebo Luo

We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lucrezia Tosato , Gianluca Lombardi , Ronny Hansch