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So far, research to generate captions from images has been carried out from the viewpoint that a caption holds sufficient information for an image. If it is possible to generate an image that is close to the input image from a generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Keisuke Hagiwara , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

For some images, descriptions written by multiple people are consistent with each other. But for other images, descriptions across people vary considerably. In other words, some images are specific $-$ they elicit consistent descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Mainak Jas , Devi Parikh

Answering visual questions need acquire daily common knowledge and model the semantic connection among different parts in images, which is too difficult for VQA systems to learn from images with the only supervision from answers. Meanwhile,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jialin Wu , Zeyuan Hu , Raymond J. Mooney

Image-to-image (I2I) translation is a pixel-level mapping that requires a large number of paired training data and often suffers from the problems of high diversity and strong category bias in image scenes. In order to tackle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Liqian Ma , Qianru Sun , Bernt Schiele , Luc Van Gool

After pre-training by generating the next word conditional on previous words, the Language Model (LM) acquires the ability of In-Context Learning (ICL) that can learn a new task conditional on the context of the given in-context examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Haokun Chen , Xu Yang , Yuhang Huang , Zihan Wu , Jing Wang , Xin Geng

Most pre-trained learning systems are known to suffer from bias, which typically emerges from the data, the model, or both. Measuring and quantifying bias and its sources is a challenging task and has been extensively studied in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Eslam Mohamed Bakr , Pengzhan Sun , Li Erran Li , Mohamed Elhoseiny

In this paper, we investigate when and how visual representations learned by two different generative models diverge. Given two text-to-image models, our goal is to discover visual attributes that appear in images generated by one model but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lisa Dunlap , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

In this paper we study image captioning as a conditional GAN training, proposing both a context-aware LSTM captioner and co-attentive discriminator, which enforces semantic alignment between images and captions. We empirically focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Pierre L. Dognin , Igor Melnyk , Youssef Mroueh , Jarret Ross , Tom Sercu

Metaphor pervades everyday language, allowing speakers to express abstract concepts via concrete domains. While prior work has studied metaphors cognitively and psycholinguistically, large-scale comparisons with literal language remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Prisca Piccirilli , Alexander Fraser , Sabine Schulte im Walde

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

Visual Storytelling is a challenging multimodal task between Vision & Language, where the purpose is to generate a story for a stream of images. Its difficulty lies on the fact that the story should be both grounded to the image sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Admitos Passadakis , Yingjin Song , Albert Gatt

State-of-The-Art (SoTA) image captioning models are often trained on the MicroSoft Common Objects in Context (MS-COCO) dataset, which contains human-annotated captions with an average length of approximately ten tokens. Although effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Marco Donzella , Paolo Napoletano

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

Asking insightful questions is crucial for acquiring knowledge and expanding our understanding of the world. However, the importance of questioning has been largely overlooked in AI research, where models have been primarily developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Deyao Zhu , Jun Chen , Kilichbek Haydarov , Xiaoqian Shen , Wenxuan Zhang , Mohamed Elhoseiny

In this work, we develop a technique to produce counterfactual visual explanations. Given a 'query' image $I$ for which a vision system predicts class $c$, a counterfactual visual explanation identifies how $I$ could change such that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yash Goyal , Ziyan Wu , Jan Ernst , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Stefan Lee

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

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

We introduce an inference technique to produce discriminative context-aware image captions (captions that describe differences between images or visual concepts) using only generic context-agnostic training data (captions that describe a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Ramakrishna Vedantam , Samy Bengio , Kevin Murphy , Devi Parikh , Gal Chechik

Recent captioning models are limited in their ability to scale and describe concepts unseen in paired image-text corpora. We propose the Novel Object Captioner (NOC), a deep visual semantic captioning model that can describe a large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Subhashini Venugopalan , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Marcus Rohrbach , Raymond Mooney , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

The task of image captioning demands an algorithm to generate natural language descriptions of visual inputs. Recent advancements have seen a convergence between image captioning research and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Davide Bucciarelli , Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara