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Significant progress has been made on visual captioning, largely relying on pre-trained features and later fixed object detectors that serve as rich inputs to auto-regressive models. A key limitation of such methods, however, is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chia-Wen Kuo , Zsolt Kira

Image captioning has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, little work has been done for game image captioning which has some unique characteristics and requirements. In this work we propose a novel game image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jian Zheng , Sudha Krishnamurthy , Ruxin Chen , Min-Hung Chen , Zhenhao Ge , Xiaohua Li

Existing Image Captioning (IC) systems model words as atomic units in captions and are unable to exploit the structural information in the words. This makes representation of rare words very difficult and out-of-vocabulary words impossible.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Naeha Sharif , Mohammed Bennamoun , Wei Liu , Syed Afaq Ali Shah

Describing images in natural language is a fundamental step towards the automatic modeling of connections between the visual and textual modalities. In this paper we present CaMEL, a novel Transformer-based architecture for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Manuele Barraco , Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

We introduce a novel framework for image captioning that can produce natural language explicitly grounded in entities that object detectors find in the image. Our approach reconciles classical slot filling approaches (that are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jiasen Lu , Jianwei Yang , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Automatically evaluating the quality of image captions can be very challenging since human language is quite flexible that there can be various expressions for the same meaning. Most of the current captioning metrics rely on token level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Chao Zeng , Tiesong Zhao , Sam Kwong

We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

This paper presents ViTOC (Vision Transformer and Object-aware Captioner), a novel vision-language model for image captioning that addresses the challenges of accuracy and diversity in generated descriptions. Unlike conventional approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Feiyang Huang

Language and vision are processed as two different modal in current work for image captioning. However, recent work on Super Characters method shows the effectiveness of two-dimensional word embedding, which converts text classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Baohua Sun , Lin Yang , Michael Lin , Charles Young , Patrick Dong , Wenhan Zhang , Jason Dong

Most existing image tokenizers encode images into a fixed number of tokens or patches, overlooking the inherent variability in image complexity. To address this, we introduce Content-Adaptive Tokenizer (CAT), which dynamically adjusts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Junhong Shen , Kushal Tirumala , Michihiro Yasunaga , Ishan Misra , Luke Zettlemoyer , Lili Yu , Chunting Zhou

Describing images with text is a fundamental problem in vision-language research. Current studies in this domain mostly focus on single image captioning. However, in various real applications (e.g., image editing, difference interpretation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Hao Tan , Franck Dernoncourt , Zhe Lin , Trung Bui , Mohit Bansal

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

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dušan Variš , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

The goal of this paper is to embed controllable factors, i.e., natural language descriptions, into image-to-image translation with generative adversarial networks, which allows text descriptions to determine the visual attributes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Bowen Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Philip H. S. Torr , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Image captioning using Vision Transformers (ViTs) represents a pivotal convergence of computer vision and natural language processing, offering the potential to enhance user experiences, improve accessibility, and provide textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Stanley Cao , Sonny Young

Automatically generating a natural language description of an image is a task close to the heart of image understanding. In this paper, we present a multi-model neural network method closely related to the human visual system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Zhongliang Yang , Yu-Jin Zhang , Sadaqat ur Rehman , Yongfeng Huang

Synthesizing realistic images from text descriptions on a dataset like Microsoft Common Objects in Context (MS COCO), where each image can contain several objects, is a challenging task. Prior work has used text captions to generate images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Shikhar Sharma , Dendi Suhubdy , Vincent Michalski , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Yoshua Bengio

Video captioning aims to understand the spatio-temporal semantic concept of the video and generate descriptive sentences. The de-facto approach to this task dictates a text generator to learn from \textit{offline-extracted} motion or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Yiqi Gao , Xinglin Hou , Wei Suo , Mengyang Sun , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Peng Wang

Video captioning is an advanced multi-modal task which aims to describe a video clip using a natural language sentence. The encoder-decoder framework is the most popular paradigm for this task in recent years. However, there exist some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Haoran Chen , Jianmin Li , Xiaolin Hu

Controllable Image Captioning (CIC) aims at generating natural language descriptions for an image, conditioned on information provided by end users, e.g., regions, entities or events of interest. However, available image-language datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Kalliopi Basioti , Mohamed A. Abdelsalam , Federico Fancellu , Vladimir Pavlovic , Afsaneh Fazly