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Image captioning is a longstanding problem in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. To date, researchers have produced impressive state-of-the-art performance in the age of deep learning. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zihang Meng , David Yang , Xuefei Cao , Ashish Shah , Ser-Nam Lim

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

We have seen significant improvements in machine translation due to the usage of deep learning. While the improvements in translation quality are impressive, the encoder-decoder architecture enables many more possibilities. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Jan Niehues

In this paper, we address the problem of image captioning specifically for molecular translation where the result would be a predicted chemical notation in InChI format for a given molecular structure. Current approaches mainly follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Carola Sundaramoorthy , Lin Ziwen Kelvin , Mahak Sarin , Shubham Gupta

With the advancement of deep models, research work on image captioning has led to a remarkable gain in raw performance over the last decade, along with increasing model complexity and computational cost. However, surprisingly works on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jia Huei Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Joon Huang Chuah

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

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

Training-free zero-shot composed image retrieval models are recently gaining increasing research interest due to their generalizability and flexibility in unseen multimodal retrieval. Recent LLM-based advances focus on generating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Miaoge Li , Dongsheng Wang , Zening Sun , Jinsen Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Jingcai Guo

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

Text-to-image retrieval is a fundamental task in vision-language learning, yet in real-world scenarios it is often challenged by short and underspecified user queries. Such queries are typically only one or two words long, rendering them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jianglin Lu , Simon Jenni , Kushal Kafle , Jing Shi , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

The recently proposed Neural Local Lossless Compression (NeLLoC), which is based on a local autoregressive model, has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization performance in the image compression task. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Mingtian Zhang , James Townsend , Ning Kang , David Barber

Image Captioning is a task that combines computer vision and natural language processing, where it aims to generate descriptive legends for images. It is a two-fold process relying on accurate image understanding and correct language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ahmed Elhagry , Karima Kadaoui

We argue that generative text-to-image models often struggle with prompt adherence due to the noisy and unstructured nature of large-scale datasets like LAION-5B. This forces users to rely heavily on prompt engineering to elicit desirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Nicholas Merchant , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Andrei Cristian Popescu , Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez

Recent text-to-image matching models apply contrastive learning to large corpora of uncurated pairs of images and sentences. While such models can provide a powerful score for matching and subsequent zero-shot tasks, they are not capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yoad Tewel , Yoav Shalev , Idan Schwartz , Lior Wolf

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

Existing approaches to image captioning usually generate the sentence word-by-word from left to right, with the constraint of conditioned on local context including the given image and history generated words. There have been many studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhengcong Fei , Junshi Huang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei

Acquiring high-quality knowledge is a central focus in Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA). Recent methods use large language models (LLMs) as knowledge engines for answering. These methods generally employ image captions as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yan Zhang , Jiaqing Lin , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Zhifei Li

Most image captioning models are autoregressive, i.e. they generate each word by conditioning on previously generated words, which leads to heavy latency during inference. Recently, non-autoregressive decoding has been proposed in machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Longteng Guo , Jing Liu , Xinxin Zhu , Xingjian He , Jie Jiang , Hanqing Lu

The use of attention models for automated image captioning has enabled many systems to produce accurate and meaningful descriptions for images. Over the years, many novel approaches have been proposed to enhance the attention process using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Murad Popattia , Muhammad Rafi , Rizwan Qureshi , Shah Nawaz

Autoregressive generative models naturally generate variable-length sequences, while non-autoregressive models struggle, often imposing rigid, token-wise structures. We propose Edit Flows, a non-autoregressive model that overcomes these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Marton Havasi , Brian Karrer , Itai Gat , Ricky T. Q. Chen