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Image captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions for input images in an open-form manner. To accurately generate descriptions related to the image, a critical step in image captioning is to identify objects and understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jinjing Gu , Tianbao Qin , Yuanyuan Pu , Zhengpeng Zhao

Automated image captioning is one of the applications of Deep Learning which involves fusion of work done in computer vision and natural language processing, and it is typically performed using Encoder-Decoder architectures. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Aditya Bhattacharya , Eshwar Shamanna Girishekar , Padmakar Anil Deshpande

Dense video captioning is a task of localizing interesting events from an untrimmed video and producing textual description (captions) for each localized event. Most of the previous works in dense video captioning are solely based on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu

Existing automatic captioning methods for visual content face challenges such as lack of detail, content hallucination, and poor instruction following. In this work, we propose VisualFactChecker (VFC), a flexible training-free pipeline that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yunhao Ge , Xiaohui Zeng , Jacob Samuel Huffman , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Yin Cui

Recent lightweight retrieval-augmented image caption models often utilize retrieved data solely as text prompts, thereby creating a semantic gap by leaving the original visual features unenhanced, particularly for object details or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Binbin Li , Guimiao Yang , Zisen Qi , Haiping Wang , Yu Ding

We present VLCAP, an Arabic image captioning framework that integrates CLIP-based visual label retrieval with multimodal text generation. Rather than relying solely on end-to-end captioning, VLCAP grounds generation in interpretable Arabic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Passant Elchafei , Amany Fashwan

Attention-based neural encoder-decoder frameworks have been widely adopted for image captioning. Most methods force visual attention to be active for every generated word. However, the decoder likely requires little to no visual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Jiasen Lu , Caiming Xiong , Devi Parikh , Richard Socher

Text-based image captioning (TextCap) requires simultaneous comprehension of visual content and reading the text of images to generate a natural language description. Although a task can teach machines to understand the complex human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Wenqiao Zhang , Haochen Shi , Jiannan Guo , Shengyu Zhang , Qingpeng Cai , Juncheng Li , Sihui Luo , Yueting Zhuang

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

Dense video captioning involves detecting and describing events within video sequences. Traditional methods operate in an offline setting, assuming the entire video is available for analysis. In contrast, in this work we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Eduardo Blanco-Fernández , Carlos Gutiérrez-Álvarez , Nadia Nasri , Saturnino Maldonado-Bascón , Roberto J. López-Sastre

Dense video captioning aims to generate multiple associated captions with their temporal locations from the video. Previous methods follow a sophisticated "localize-then-describe" scheme, which heavily relies on numerous hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Teng Wang , Ruimao Zhang , Zhichao Lu , Feng Zheng , Ran Cheng , Ping Luo

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

Controllable Image Captioning (CIC) -- generating natural language descriptions about images under the guidance of given control signals -- is one of the most promising directions towards next-generation captioning systems. Till now,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhen Wang , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , Fei Gao , Jian Shao , Long Chen

Image editing is an iterative process that requires precise visual evaluation and manipulation for the output to match the editing intent. However, current image editing tools do not provide accessible interaction nor sufficient feedback…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Ruei-Che Chang , Yuxuan Liu , Lotus Zhang , Anhong Guo

Image captioning bridges the gap between vision and language by automatically generating natural language descriptions for images. Traditional image captioning methods often overlook the preferences and characteristics of users.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xuan Wang , Guanhong Wang , Wenhao Chai , Jiayu Zhou , Gaoang Wang

The encode-decoder framework has shown recent success in image captioning. Visual attention, which is good at detailedness, and semantic attention, which is good at comprehensiveness, have been separately proposed to ground the caption on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Fenglin Liu , Xuancheng Ren , Yuanxin Liu , Houfeng Wang , Xu Sun

In recent years, datasets of paired audio and captions have enabled remarkable success in automatically generating descriptions for audio clips, namely Automated Audio Captioning (AAC). However, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Theodoros Kouzelis , Vassilis Katsouros

Gaze reflects how humans process visual scenes and is therefore increasingly used in computer vision systems. Previous works demonstrated the potential of gaze for object-centric tasks, such as object localization and recognition, but it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Yusuke Sugano , Andreas Bulling

Audio-visual captioning aims to generate holistic scene descriptions by jointly modeling sound and vision. While recent methods have improved performance through sophisticated modality fusion, it remains unclear to what extent the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Yuchi Ishikawa , Toranosuke Manabe , Tatsuya Komatsu , Yoshimitsu Aoki

In image captioning where fluency is an important factor in evaluation, e.g., $n$-gram metrics, sequential models are commonly used; however, sequential models generally result in overgeneralized expressions that lack the details that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Junjiao Tian , Jean Oh