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Image captioning remains a fundamental task for vision language understanding, yet ground-truth supervision still relies predominantly on human-annotated references. Because human annotations reflect subjective preferences and expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhijiang Tang , Linhua Wang , Jiaxin Qi , Weihao Jiang , Peng Hou , Anxiang Zeng , Jianqiang Huang

Recent neural models for image captioning usually employ an encoder-decoder framework with an attention mechanism. However, the attention mechanism in such a framework aligns one single (attended) image feature vector to one caption word,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Lun Huang , Wenmin Wang , Yaxian Xia , Jie Chen

Inspired by how the human brain employs a higher number of neural pathways when describing a highly focused subject, we show that deep attentive models used for the main vision-language task of image captioning, could be extended to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zanyar Zohourianshahzadi , Jugal K. Kalita

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

Stories are essential for genealogy research since they can help build emotional connections with people. A lot of family stories are reserved in historical photos and albums. Recent development on image captioning models makes it feasible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Jiayun Li , Mohammad K. Ebrahimpour , Azadeh Moghtaderi , Yen-Yun Yu

Image captioning has been recently gaining a lot of attention thanks to the impressive achievements shown by deep captioning architectures, which combine Convolutional Neural Networks to extract image representations, and Recurrent Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Serra , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning is a research area of immense importance, aiming to generate natural language descriptions for visual content in the form of still images. The advent of deep learning and more recently vision-language pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

Image Captioning is a task that combines computer vision and natural language processing, where it aims to generate descriptive legends for images. It is a two-fold process relying on accurate image understanding and correct language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ahmed Elhagry , Karima Kadaoui

Top-down attention allows people to focus on task-relevant visual information. Is the resulting perceptual boost task-dependent in naturalistic settings? We aim to answer this with a large-scale computational experiment. First, we design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Freddie Bickford Smith , Xiaoliang Luo , Brett D. Roads , Bradley C. Love

Automatically generating the descriptions of an image, i.e., image captioning, is an important and fundamental topic in artificial intelligence, which bridges the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Shiyang Yan , Yuan Xie , Fangyu Wu , Jeremy S. Smith , Wenjin Lu , Bailing Zhang

With the aim of promoting and understanding the multilingual version of image search, we leverage visual object detection and propose a model with diverse multi-head attention to learn grounded multilingual multimodal representations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Po-Yao Huang , Xiaojun Chang , Alexander Hauptmann

Automatically generating natural language descriptions from an image is a challenging problem in artificial intelligence that requires a good understanding of the visual and textual signals and the correlations between them. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Arushi Goel , Basura Fernando , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Hakan Bilen

Neural image/video captioning models can generate accurate descriptions, but their internal process of mapping regions to words is a black box and therefore difficult to explain. Top-down neural saliency methods can find important regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Vasili Ramanishka , Abir Das , Jianming Zhang , Kate Saenko

The attention mechanisms in deep neural networks are inspired by human's attention that sequentially focuses on the most relevant parts of the information over time to generate prediction output. The attention parameters in those models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Youngjae Yu , Jongwook Choi , Yeonhwa Kim , Kyung Yoo , Sang-Hun Lee , Gunhee Kim

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

Recently, automatic video captioning has attracted increasing attention, where the core challenge lies in capturing the key semantic items, like objects and actions as well as their spatial-temporal correlations from the redundant frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chengpeng Dai , Fuhai Chen , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji , Qixiang Ye , Yongjian Wu

Automatic video captioning is challenging due to the complex interactions in dynamic real scenes. A comprehensive system would ultimately localize and track the objects, actions and interactions present in a video and generate a description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Marinoiu , Cristian Sminchisescu

Image captioning models generally lack the capability to take into account user interest, and usually default to global descriptions that try to balance readability, informativeness, and information overload. On the other hand, VQA models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Edwin G. Ng , Bo Pang , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

Visual attention is a mechanism closely intertwined with vision and memory. Top-down information influences visual processing through attention. We designed a neural network model inspired by aspects of human visual attention. This model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruoyang Hu , Robert A. Jacobs

Many vision and language models suffer from poor visual grounding - often falling back on easy-to-learn language priors rather than basing their decisions on visual concepts in the image. In this work, we propose a generic approach called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Stefan Lee , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Shalini Ghosh , Larry Heck , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh