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In this work, we propose a division-and-summarization (DaS) framework for dense video captioning. After partitioning each untrimmed long video as multiple event proposals, where each event proposal consists of a set of short video segments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhiwang Zhang , Dong Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Chuanqi Tan

While conditional language models have greatly improved in their ability to output high-quality natural language, many NLP applications benefit from being able to generate a diverse set of candidate sequences. Diverse decoding strategies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Daphne Ippolito , Reno Kriz , Maria Kustikova , João Sedoc , Chris Callison-Burch

Recent advances in vision-language models have led to impressive progress in caption generation for images and short video clips. However, these models remain constrained by their limited temporal receptive fields, making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sanghyeok Chu , Seonguk Seo , Bohyung Han

Dense video captioning is a newly emerging task that aims at both localizing and describing all events in a video. We identify and tackle two challenges on this task, namely, (1) how to utilize both past and future contexts for accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jingwen Wang , Wenhao Jiang , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Yong Xu

Recent advances on text-to-image generation have witnessed the rise of diffusion models which act as powerful generative models. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to exploit such latent variable models to capture the dependency among discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jianjie Luo , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Jianlin Feng , Hongyang Chao , Tao Mei

It is encouraged to see that progress has been made to bridge videos and natural language. However, mainstream video captioning methods suffer from slow inference speed due to the sequential manner of autoregressive decoding, and prefer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Bang Yang , Yuexian Zou , Fenglin Liu , Can Zhang

Previous models for video captioning often use the output from a specific layer of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as video features. However, the variable context-dependent semantics in the video may make it more appropriate to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Yunchen Pu , Martin Renqiang Min , Zhe Gan , Lawrence Carin

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

Given the accelerating progress of vision and language modeling, accurate evaluation of machine-generated image captions remains critical. In order to evaluate captions more closely to human preferences, metrics need to discriminate between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Koki Maeda , Shuhei Kurita , Taiki Miyanishi , Naoaki Okazaki

Videos, images, and sentences are mediums that can express the same semantics. One can imagine a picture by reading a sentence or can describe a scene with some words. However, even small changes in a sentence can cause a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Amir Mazaheri , Mubarak Shah

This paper studied generating natural languages at particular contexts or situations. We proposed two novel approaches which encode the contexts into a continuous semantic representation and then decode the semantic representation into text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Jian Tang , Yifan Yang , Sam Carton , Ming Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei

In this paper, the problem of describing visual contents of a video sequence with natural language is addressed. Unlike previous video captioning work mainly exploiting the cues of video contents to make a language description, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Bairui Wang , Lin Ma , Wei Zhang , Wei Liu

The recent advances of deep learning in both computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) provide us a new way of understanding semantics, by which we can deal with more challenging tasks such as automatic description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Daouda Sow , Zengchang Qin , Mouhamed Niasse , Tao Wan

Annotation of multimedia data by humans is time-consuming and costly, while reliable automatic generation of semantic metadata is a major challenge. We propose a framework to extract semantic metadata from automatically generated video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Johannes Scherer , Ansgar Scherp , Deepayan Bhowmik

This paper describes our champion solution for the CVPR2022 Generic Event Boundary Captioning (GEBC) competition. GEBC requires the captioning model to have a comprehension of instantaneous status changes around the given video boundary,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xin Gu , Hanhua Ye , Guang Chen , Yufei Wang , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been combined with generative adversarial networks (GANs) to create deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs) with great success. DCGANs have been used for generating images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Sebastian Hereu , Qianfei Hu

This project aims to create an automated image captioning system that generates natural language descriptions for input images by integrating techniques from computer vision and natural language processing. We employ various different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Joshua Adrian Cahyono , Jeremy Nathan Jusuf

Conditional Variational AutoEncoder (CVAE) effectively increases the diversity and informativeness of responses in open-ended dialogue generation tasks through enriching the context vector with sampled latent variables. However, due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Bin Sun , Shaoxiong Feng , Yiwei Li , Jiamou Liu , Kan Li

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

Understanding and analyzing video actions are essential for producing insightful and contextualized descriptions, especially for video-based applications like intelligent monitoring and autonomous systems. The proposed work introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lakshita Agarwal , Bindu Verma