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In this paper we introduce the problem of determining the topic that a set of images is describing, where every topic is represented as a set of words. Different from other problems like tag assignment or similar, a) we assume multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Gonzalo Vaca-Castano

Image descriptions can help visually impaired people to quickly understand the image content. While we made significant progress in automatically describing images and optical character recognition, current approaches are unable to include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Oleksii Sidorov , Ronghang Hu , Marcus Rohrbach , Amanpreet Singh

We explore the use of a knowledge graphs, that capture general or commonsense knowledge, to augment the information extracted from images by the state-of-the-art methods for image captioning. The results of our experiments, on several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yimin Zhou , Yiwei Sun , Vasant Honavar

The objective of image captioning models is to bridge the gap between the visual and linguistic modalities by generating natural language descriptions that accurately reflect the content of input images. In recent years, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alessandro Nicolosi , Rita Cucchiara

Current image-to-image translation methods formulate the task with conditional generation models, leading to learning only the recolorization or regional changes as being constrained by the rich structural information provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yu-Jie Chen , Shin-I Cheng , Wei-Chen Chiu , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee

Modern generative models exhibit unprecedented capabilities to generate extremely realistic data. However, given the inherent compositionality of the real world, reliable use of these models in practical applications requires that they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Maya Okawa , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka

Generating a novel textual description of an image is an interesting problem that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a simple model that is able to generate descriptive sentences given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Rémi Lebret , Pedro O. Pinheiro , Ronan Collobert

Most state-of-the-art image retrieval and recommendation systems predominantly focus on individual images. In contrast, socially curated image collections, condensing distinctive yet coherent images into one set, are largely overlooked by…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuncheng Li , Yang Cong , Tao Mei , Jiebo Luo

Current image captioning approaches generate descriptions which lack specific information, such as named entities that are involved in the images. In this paper we propose a new task which aims to generate informative image captions, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Di Lu , Spencer Whitehead , Lifu Huang , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Compositionality is considered central to language abilities. As performant language systems, how do large language models (LLMs) do on compositional tasks? We evaluate adjective-noun compositionality in LLMs using two complementary setups:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ruchira Dhar , Qiwei Peng , Anders Søgaard

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

Generative models have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating high-fidelity visual content. In this work, we explore how generative models can further be used not only to synthesize visual content but also to understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yanbo Wang , Justin Dauwels , Yilun Du

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

Improving the captioning performance on low-resource languages by leveraging English caption datasets has received increasing research interest in recent years. Existing works mainly fall into two categories: translation-based and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Yike Wu , Shiwan Zhao , Jia Chen , Ying Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan , Zhong Su

Automated image captioning has the potential to be a useful tool for people with vision impairments. Images taken by this user group are often noisy, which leads to incorrect and even unsafe model predictions. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lu Yu , Malvina Nikandrou , Jiali Jin , Verena Rieser

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

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

We hypothesize that end-to-end neural image captioning systems work seemingly well because they exploit and learn `distributional similarity' in a multimodal feature space by mapping a test image to similar training images in this space and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Pranava Madhyastha , Josiah Wang , Lucia Specia

The recent demand for customized image generation raises a need for techniques that effectively extract the common concept from small sets of images. Existing methods typically rely on additional guidance, such as text prompts or spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Minseo Kim , Minchan Kwon , Dongyeun Lee , Yunho Jeon , Junmo Kim

State-of-the-art image captioning methods mostly focus on improving visual features, less attention has been paid to utilizing the inherent properties of language to boost captioning performance. In this paper, we show that vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lei Ke , Wenjie Pei , Ruiyu Li , Xiaoyong Shen , Yu-Wing Tai