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Recent multimodal large language models have shown promising ability in generating humorous captions for images, yet they still lack stable control over explicit cultural context, making it difficult to jointly maintain image relevance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Run Xu , Lu Li , Rongzhao Zhang , Jie Xu

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

Image captioning is a task in the field of Artificial Intelligence that merges between computer vision and natural language processing. It is responsible for generating legends that describe images, and has various applications like…

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

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

Supervised visual captioning models typically require a large scale of images or videos paired with descriptions in a specific language (i.e., the vision-caption pairs) for training. However, collecting and labeling large-scale datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Bang Yang , Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Yaowei Wang , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

Multilingual image captioning has recently been tackled by training with large-scale machine translated data, which is an expensive, noisy, and time-consuming process. Without requiring any multilingual caption data, we propose LMCap, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Rita Ramos , Bruno Martins , Desmond Elliott

Remote sensing image captioning has advanced rapidly through encoder--decoder models, although the reliance on large annotated datasets and the focus on English restricts global applicability. To address these limitations, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Carlos Rebelo , Gil Rocha , João Daniel Silva , Bruno Martins

Linguistic style is an essential part of written communication, with the power to affect both clarity and attractiveness. With recent advances in vision and language, we can start to tackle the problem of generating image captions that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Alexander Mathews , Lexing Xie , Xuming He

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 many BERT-based cross-modal pre-trained models produce excellent results on downstream understanding tasks like image-text retrieval and VQA, they cannot be applied to generation tasks directly. In this paper, we propose XGPT, a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Qiaolin Xia , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Dongdong Zhang , Lei Ji , Zhifang Sui , Edward Cui , Taroon Bharti , Xin Liu , Ming Zhou

We propose SC-Captioner, a reinforcement learning framework that enables the self-correcting capability of image caption models. Our crucial technique lies in the design of the reward function to incentivize accurate caption corrections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lin Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Kangcong Li , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

We study how to generate captions that are not only accurate in describing an image but also discriminative across different images. The problem is both fundamental and interesting, as most machine-generated captions, despite phenomenal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dianqi Li , Qiuyuan Huang , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun

Multilingual vision-language models have made significant strides in image captioning, yet they still lag behind their English counterparts due to limited multilingual training data and costly large-scale model parameterization.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 George Ibrahim , Rita Ramos , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Visual captioning aims to generate textual descriptions given images or videos. Traditionally, image captioning models are trained on human annotated datasets such as Flickr30k and MS-COCO, which are limited in size and diversity. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Marimuthu Kalimuthu , Aditya Mogadala , Marius Mosbach , Dietrich Klakow

Recent work in computer vision has yielded impressive results in automatically describing images with natural language. Most of these systems generate captions in a sin- gle language, requiring multiple language-specific models to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Satoshi Tsutsui , David Crandall

As the amount of audio-visual content increases, the need to develop automatic captioning and subtitling solutions to match the expectations of a growing international audience appears as the only viable way to boost throughput and lower…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Jitao Xu , François Buet , Josep Crego , Elise Bertin-Lemée , François Yvon

The advent of vision-language pre-training techniques enhanced substantial progress in the development of models for image captioning. However, these models frequently produce generic captions and may omit semantically important image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Noam Rotstein , David Bensaid , Shaked Brody , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel

The aim of image captioning is to generate captions by machine to describe image contents. Despite many efforts, generating discriminative captions for images remains non-trivial. Most traditional approaches imitate the language structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Xihui Liu , Hongsheng Li , Jing Shao , Dapeng Chen , Xiaogang Wang

Understanding images without explicit supervision has become an important problem in computer vision. In this paper, we address image captioning by generating language descriptions of scenes without learning from annotated pairs of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Nassir Navab

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