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Deep neural networks have achieved great successes on the image captioning task. However, most of the existing models depend heavily on paired image-sentence datasets, which are very expensive to acquire. In this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yang Feng , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Jiebo Luo

Image captioning has been recently gaining a lot of attention thanks to the impressive achievements shown by deep captioning architectures, which combine Convolutional Neural Networks to extract image representations, and Recurrent Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Serra , Rita Cucchiara

This paper establishes a formal information-theoretic framework for image captioning, conceptualizing captions as compressed linguistic representations that selectively encode semantic units in images. Our framework posits that good image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Delong Chen , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Etsuko Ishii , Ho Shu Chan , Yejin Bang , Pascale Fung

In scholarly documents, figures provide a straightforward way of communicating scientific findings to readers. Automating figure caption generation helps move model understandings of scientific documents beyond text and will help authors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zhishen Yang , Raj Dabre , Hideki Tanaka , Naoaki Okazaki

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an extremely stimulating and challenging research area where Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processig (NLP) have recently met. In image captioning and video summarization, the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Silvio Barra , Carmen Bisogni , Maria De Marsico , Stefano Ricciardi

Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi

We study how to generate captions that are not only accurate in describing an image but also discriminative across different images. The problem is both fundamental and interesting, as most machine-generated captions, despite phenomenal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dianqi Li , Qiuyuan Huang , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun

Physical computing infrastructure, data gathering, and algorithms have recently had significant advances to extract information from images and videos. The growth has been especially outstanding in image captioning and video captioning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Soheyla Amirian , Thiab R. Taha , Khaled Rasheed , Hamid R. Arabnia

We introduce a new multi-modal task for computer systems, posed as a combined vision-language comprehension challenge: identifying the most suitable text describing a scene, given several similar options. Accomplishing the task entails…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Nan Ding , Sebastian Goodman , Fei Sha , Radu Soricut

Recent progress on automatic generation of image captions has shown that it is possible to describe the most salient information conveyed by images with accurate and meaningful sentences. In this paper, we propose an image caption system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Junqi Jin , Kun Fu , Runpeng Cui , Fei Sha , Changshui Zhang

Visual attention plays an important role to understand images and demonstrates its effectiveness in generating natural language descriptions of images. On the other hand, recent studies show that language associated with an image can steer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Jonghwan Mun , Minsu Cho , Bohyung Han

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

Recent lightweight image captioning models using retrieved data mainly focus on text prompts. However, previous works only utilize the retrieved text as text prompts, and the visual information relies only on the CLIP visual embedding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Taewhan Kim , Soeun Lee , Si-Woo Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

We propose an approach for interactive learning for an image captioning model. As human feedback is expensive and modern neural network based approaches often require large amounts of supervised data to be trained, we envision a system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mareike Hartmann , Aliki Anagnostopoulou , Daniel Sonntag

The aim of image captioning is to generate textual description of a given image. Though seemingly an easy task for humans, it is challenging for machines as it requires the ability to comprehend the image (computer vision) and consequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Anubhav Shrimal , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Image captioning is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, where the model predicts a textual informative caption to a given input image. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address this task. We use CLIP encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Amit H. Bermano

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

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

Generating a description of an image is called image captioning. Image captioning requires to recognize the important objects, their attributes and their relationships in an image. It also needs to generate syntactically and semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Md. Zakir Hossain , Ferdous Sohel , Mohd Fairuz Shiratuddin , Hamid Laga

Machine-in-the-loop writing aims to enable humans to collaborate with models to complete their writing tasks more effectively. Prior work has found that providing humans a machine-written draft or sentence-level continuations has limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Vishakh Padmakumar , He He