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Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation highlight the critical role of high-quality video-text pairs in training models capable of producing coherent and instruction-aligned videos. However, strategies for optimizing video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yang Du , Zhuoran Lin , Kaiqiang Song , Biao Wang , Zhicheng Zheng , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng , Qin Jin

State-of-The-Art (SoTA) image captioning models are often trained on the MicroSoft Common Objects in Context (MS-COCO) dataset, which contains human-annotated captions with an average length of approximately ten tokens. Although effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Marco Donzella , Paolo Napoletano

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

This paper presents stacked attention networks (SANs) that learn to answer natural language questions from images. SANs use semantic representation of a question as query to search for the regions in an image that are related to the answer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Zichao Yang , Xiaodong He , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng , Alex Smola

Image captioning is the generation of natural language descriptions of images which have increased immense popularity in the recent past. With this different deep-learning techniques are devised for the development of factual and stylized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dhruv Sharma , Chhavi Dhiman , Dinesh Kumar

Vision transformer has achieved impressive performance for many vision tasks. However, it may suffer from high redundancy in capturing local features for shallow layers. Local self-attention or early-stage convolutions are thus utilized,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Huaibo Huang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Jie Cao , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

Image captioning is a fast-growing research field of computer vision and natural language processing that involves creating text explanations for images. This study aims to develop a system that uses a pre-trained convolutional neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Rashid Khan , M Shujah Islam , Khadija Kanwal , Mansoor Iqbal , Md. Imran Hossain , Zhongfu Ye

Semantic communication (SemCom) powered by generative artificial intelligence enables highly efficient and reliable information transmission. However, it still necessitates the transmission of substantial amounts of data when dealing with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Guojun Huang , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui

Image paragraph generation is the task of producing a coherent story (usually a paragraph) that describes the visual content of an image. The problem nevertheless is not trivial especially when there are multiple descriptive and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jing Wang , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Jinhui Tang , Tao Mei

Advancements in large Vision-Language Models have brought precise, accurate image captioning, vital for advancing multi-modal image understanding and processing. Yet these captions often carry lengthy, intertwined contexts that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zhantao Yang , Ruili Feng , Keyu Yan , Huangji Wang , Zhicai Wang , Shangwen Zhu , Han Zhang , Jie Xiao , Pingyu Wu , Kai Zhu , Jixuan Chen , Chen-Wei Xie , Yue Yang , Hongyang Zhang , Yu Liu , Fan Cheng

Fine-grained knowledge is crucial for vision-language models to obtain a better understanding of the real world. While there has been work trying to acquire this kind of knowledge in the space of vision and language, it has mostly focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Melika Behjati , James Henderson

In this paper, we propose a novel deep multi-level attention model to address inverse visual question answering. The proposed model generates regional visual and semantic features at the object level and then enhances them with the answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Yaser Alwattar , Yuhong Guo

Accurately assessing image complexity (IC) is critical for computer vision, yet most existing methods rely solely on visual features and often neglect high-level semantic information, limiting their accuracy and generalization. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shipeng Liu , Zhonglin Zhang , Dengfeng Chen , Liang Zhao

While image captioning through machines requires structured learning and basis for interpretation, improvement requires multiple context understanding and processing in a meaningful way. This research will provide a novel concept for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Chiranjib Sur

This paper introduces the COCONut-PanCap dataset, created to enhance panoptic segmentation and grounded image captioning. Building upon the COCO dataset with advanced COCONut panoptic masks, this dataset aims to overcome limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Xueqing Deng , Qihang Yu , Ali Athar , Chenglin Yang , Linjie Yang , Xiaojie Jin , Xiaohui Shen , Liang-Chieh Chen

Visual question answering requires a deep understanding of both images and natural language. However, most methods mainly focus on visual concept; such as the relationships between various objects. The limited use of object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jung-Jun Kim , Dong-Gyu Lee , Jialin Wu , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in image captioning, visual question answering, and visual reasoning. Yet they remain prone to vision-language misalignment, often producing overly generic or hallucinated…

Video semantic segmentation(VSS) has been widely employed in lots of fields, such as simultaneous localization and mapping, autonomous driving and surveillance. Its core challenge is how to leverage temporal information to achieve better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhigang Cen , Ningyan Guo , Wenjing Xu , Zhiyong Feng , Danlan Huang

Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

This paper proposes an approach to Dense Video Captioning (DVC) without pairwise event-sentence annotation. First, we adopt the knowledge distilled from relevant and well solved tasks to generate high-quality event proposals. Then we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Bofeng Wu , Guocheng Niu , Jun Yu , Xinyan Xiao , Jian Zhang , Hua Wu