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Vision-language models can assess visual context in an image and generate descriptive text. While the generated text may be accurate and syntactically correct, it is often overly general. To address this, recent work has used optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Wes Robbins , Zanyar Zohourianshahzadi , Jugal Kalita

One property that remains lacking in image captions generated by contemporary methods is discriminability: being able to tell two images apart given the caption for one of them. We propose a way to improve this aspect of caption generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ruotian Luo , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Training data is at the core of any successful text-to-image models. The quality and descriptiveness of image text are crucial to a model's performance. Given the noisiness and inconsistency in web-scraped datasets, recent works shifted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Manuel Brack , Sudeep Katakol , Felix Friedrich , Patrick Schramowski , Hareesh Ravi , Kristian Kersting , Ajinkya Kale

Image captioning models are usually evaluated on their ability to describe a held-out set of images, not on their ability to generalize to unseen concepts. We study the problem of compositional generalization, which measures how well a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mitja Nikolaus , Mostafa Abdou , Matthew Lamm , Rahul Aralikatte , Desmond Elliott

We propose an approach for interactive learning for an image captioning model. As human feedback is expensive and modern neural network based approaches often require large amounts of supervised data to be trained, we envision a system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mareike Hartmann , Aliki Anagnostopoulou , Daniel Sonntag

Observing a set of images and their corresponding paragraph-captions, a challenging task is to learn how to produce a semantically coherent paragraph to describe the visual content of an image. Inspired by recent successes in integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Dandan Guo , Ruiying Lu , Bo Chen , Zequn Zeng , Mingyuan Zhou

Image captioning is conventionally formulated as the task of generating captions for images that match the distribution of reference image-caption pairs. However, reference captions in standard captioning datasets are short and may not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Simon Kornblith , Lala Li , Zirui Wang , Thao Nguyen

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

While strong progress has been made in image captioning over the last years, machine and human captions are still quite distinct. A closer look reveals that this is due to the deficiencies in the generated word distribution, vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Rakshith Shetty , Marcus Rohrbach , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

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

This paper explores new evaluation perspectives for image captioning and introduces a noun translation task that achieves comparative image caption generation performance by translating from a set of nouns to captions. This implies that in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Hendrik Heuer , Christof Monz , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

The recent progress on image recognition and language modeling is making automatic description of image content a reality. However, stylized, non-factual aspects of the written description are missing from the current systems. One such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Alexander Mathews , Lexing Xie , Xuming He

This research explores the realm of neural image captioning using deep learning models. The study investigates the performance of different neural architecture configurations, focusing on the inject architecture, and proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Pooja Bhatnagar , Sai Mrunaal , Sachin Kamnure

Answering visual questions need acquire daily common knowledge and model the semantic connection among different parts in images, which is too difficult for VQA systems to learn from images with the only supervision from answers. Meanwhile,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jialin Wu , Zeyuan Hu , Raymond J. Mooney

Current deep learning models often achieve excellent results on benchmark image-to-text datasets but fail to generate texts that are useful in practice. We argue that to close this gap, it is vital to distinguish descriptions from captions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Elisa Kreiss , Fei Fang , Noah D. Goodman , Christopher Potts

Automatically generating descriptive captions for images is a well-researched area in computer vision. However, existing evaluation approaches focus on measuring the similarity between two sentences disregarding fine-grained semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Dan Zecha , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

Image captioning model is a cross-modality knowledge discovery task, which targets at automatically describing an image with an informative and coherent sentence. To generate the captions, the previous encoder-decoder frameworks directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ziwei Wang , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Story visualization is an under-explored task that falls at the intersection of many important research directions in both computer vision and natural language processing. In this task, given a series of natural language captions which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Adyasha Maharana , Darryl Hannan , Mohit Bansal

Image captioning involves generating textual descriptions from input images, bridging the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Recent advancements in transformer-based models have significantly improved caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Israa A. Albadarneh , Bassam H. Hammo , Omar S. Al-Kadi

Most image captioning frameworks generate captions directly from images, learning a mapping from visual features to natural language. However, editing existing captions can be easier than generating new ones from scratch. Intuitively, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Fawaz Sammani , Luke Melas-Kyriazi