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Real-world image captions often lack contextual depth, omitting crucial details such as event background, temporal cues, outcomes, and named entities that are not visually discernible. This gap limits the effectiveness of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nguyen Lam Phu Quy , Pham Phu Hoa , Tran Chi Nguyen , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Nguyen Hoang Minh Ngoc , Huynh Trung Kiet

Existing popular video captioning benchmarks and models deal with generic captions devoid of specific person, place or organization named entities. In contrast, news videos present a challenging setting where the caption requires such named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hammad A. Ayyubi , Tianqi Liu , Arsha Nagrani , Xudong Lin , Mingda Zhang , Anurag Arnab , Feng Han , Yukun Zhu , Jialu Liu , Shih-Fu Chang

Benefiting from advances in machine vision and natural language processing techniques, current image captioning systems are able to generate detailed visual descriptions. For the most part, these descriptions represent an objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

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

Image captioning is an ambiguous problem, with many suitable captions for an image. To address ambiguity, beam search is the de facto method for sampling multiple captions. However, beam search is computationally expensive and known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Aditya Deshpande , Jyoti Aneja , Liwei Wang , Alexander Schwing , D. A. Forsyth

Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

Multi-modal visual understanding of images with prompts involves using various visual and textual cues to enhance the semantic understanding of images. This approach combines both vision and language processing to generate more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuzhou Peng

We use coherence relations inspired by computational models of discourse to study the information needs and goals of image captioning. Using an annotation protocol specifically devised for capturing image--caption coherence relations, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Malihe Alikhani , Piyush Sharma , Shengjie Li , Radu Soricut , Matthew Stone

Connecting Vision and Language plays an essential role in Generative Intelligence. For this reason, large research efforts have been devoted to image captioning, i.e. describing images with syntactically and semantically meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Silvia Cascianelli , Giuseppe Fiameni , Rita Cucchiara

Significant performance gains in deep learning coupled with the exponential growth of image and video data on the Internet have resulted in the recent emergence of automated image captioning systems. Ensuring scalability of automated image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Karan Sharma , Arun CS Kumar , Suchendra Bhandarkar

Multi-sentence summarization is a well studied problem in NLP, while generating image descriptions for a single image is a well studied problem in Computer Vision. However, for applications such as image cluster labeling or web page…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Nicholas Trieu , Sebastian Goodman , Pradyumna Narayana , Kazoo Sone , Radu Soricut

Despite considerable progress, state of the art image captioning models produce generic captions, leaving out important image details. Furthermore, these systems may even misrepresent the image in order to produce a simpler caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Zeyu Wang , Berthy Feng , Karthik Narasimhan , Olga Russakovsky

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

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

We present Caption, an LLM-powered content label generation tool for visual interactive elements on mobile devices. Content labels are essential for screen readers to provide announcements for image-based elements, but are often missing or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mingyuan Zhong , Ajit Mallavarapu , Qing Nie

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

Recent advances in image captioning task have led to increasing interests in video captioning task. However, most works on video captioning are focused on generating single input of aggregated features, which hardly deviates from image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Andrew Shin , Katsunori Ohnishi , Tatsuya Harada

Automated captioning of photos is a mission that incorporates the difficulties of photo analysis and text generation. One essential feature of captioning is the concept of attention: how to determine what to specify and in which sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Daniel Yarnell , Xian Wang

Despite the remarkable progress of image captioning, existing captioners typically lack the controllable capability to generate desired image captions, e.g., describing the image in a rough or detailed manner, in a factual or emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ning Wang , Jiahao Xie , Jihao Wu , Mingbo Jia , Linlin Li

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