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Image captioning, which generates natural language descriptions of the visual information in an image, is a crucial task in vision-language research. Previous models have typically addressed this task by aligning the generative capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xinting Huang , Yuchen Ren

Image captioning models often suffer from performance degradation when applied to novel datasets, as they are typically trained on domain-specific data. To enhance generalization in out-of-domain scenarios, retrieval-augmented approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hao Wu , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun

Distributed Image Compression (DIC) is crucial for multi-view transmission, especially when operating at extremely low bitrates (< 0.1 bpp). Its core challenge is effectively utilizing side information to achieve high-quality reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Guojun Xu , Mingyang Zhang , Jianwen Xiang , Cheng Tan , Yanchao Yang , Junwei Zhou

Recent advancements in pre-trained large-scale language-image models have ushered in a new era of visual comprehension, offering a significant leap forward. These breakthroughs have proven particularly instrumental in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yiran Li , Junpeng Wang , Prince Aboagye , Michael Yeh , Yan Zheng , Liang Wang , Wei Zhang , Kwan-Liu Ma

Image captioning is a challenging task and attracting more and more attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and which can be applied to efficient image retrieval, intelligent blind guidance and human-computer interaction, etc. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yiyu Wang , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Ben He

Image Captioning is one of the vision-language tasks that still interest the research community worldwide in the 2020s. MS-COCO Caption benchmark is commonly used to evaluate the performance of advanced captioning models, although it was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Doanh C. Bui , Nghia Hieu Nguyen , Khang Nguyen

Unpaired Image Captioning (UIC) has been developed to learn image descriptions from unaligned vision-language sample pairs. Existing works usually tackle this task using adversarial learning and visual concept reward based on reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Peipei Zhu , Xiao Wang , Lin Zhu , Zhenglong Sun , Weishi Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Changwen Chen

Generating textual descriptions for images has been an attractive problem for the computer vision and natural language processing researchers in recent years. Dozens of models based on deep learning have been proposed to solve this problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Ahmad Asadi , Reza Safabakhsh

Aesthetic image captioning (AIC) refers to the multi-modal task of generating critical textual feedbacks for photographs. While in natural image captioning (NIC), deep models are trained in an end-to-end manner using large curated datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Koustav Ghosal , Aakanksha Rana , Aljosa Smolic

As black-box AI-driven decision-making systems become increasingly widespread in modern document processing workflows, improving their transparency and reliability has become critical, especially in high-stakes applications where biases or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Saifullah Saifullah , Stefan Agne , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Recent advances in large vision-language models have revolutionized the image classification paradigm. Despite showing impressive zero-shot capabilities, a pre-defined set of categories, a.k.a. the vocabulary, is assumed at test time for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Alessandro Conti , Enrico Fini , Massimiliano Mancini , Paolo Rota , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

Intrinsic image decomposition (IID) is an under-constrained problem. Therefore, traditional approaches use hand crafted priors to constrain the problem. However, these constraints are limited when coping with complex scenes. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Partha Das , Sezer Karaoglu , Arjan Gijsenij , Theo Gevers

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

Along with the prosperity of recurrent neural network in modelling sequential data and the power of attention mechanism in automatically identify salient information, image captioning, a.k.a., image description, has been remarkably advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Fumin Shen , Lixin Duan , Heng Tao Shen

One property that remains lacking in image captions generated by contemporary methods is discriminability: being able to tell two images apart given the caption for one of them. We propose a way to improve this aspect of caption generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ruotian Luo , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Contextualized Image Captioning (CIC) evolves traditional image captioning into a more complex domain, necessitating the ability for multimodal reasoning. It aims to generate image captions given specific contextual information. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Shunqi Mao , Chaoyi Zhang , Hang Su , Hwanjun Song , Igor Shalyminov , Weidong Cai

With the advancements in Large Language and Latent Diffusion models, brain decoding has achieved remarkable results in recent years. The works on the NSD dataset, with stimuli images from the COCO dataset, leverage the embeddings from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Vyacheslav Shen , Kassymzhomart Kunanbayev , Dae-Shik Kim

Automatic captioning of images is a task that combines the challenges of image analysis and text generation. One important aspect in captioning is the notion of attention: How to decide what to describe and in which order. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sen He , Wentong Liao , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Michael Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn , Nicolas Pugeault

Understanding emotions from diverse contexts has received widespread attention in computer vision communities. The core philosophy of Context-Aware Emotion Recognition (CAER) is to provide valuable semantic cues for recognizing the emotions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Dingkang Yang , Kun Yang , Haopeng Kuang , Zhaoyu Chen , Yuzheng Wang , Lihua Zhang

Significant progress has been made in recent years in image captioning, an active topic in the fields of vision and language. However, existing methods tend to yield overly general captions and consist of some of the most frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Jie Wu , Tianshui Chen , Hefeng Wu , Zhi Yang , Guangchun Luo , Liang Lin