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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

Automatically generating the descriptions of an image, i.e., image captioning, is an important and fundamental topic in artificial intelligence, which bridges the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Shiyang Yan , Yuan Xie , Fangyu Wu , Jeremy S. Smith , Wenjin Lu , Bailing Zhang

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) generates natural language descriptions that precisely identify differences between two images, serving as a key benchmark for fine-grained change perception, cross-modal reasoning, and image editing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yuancheng Wei , Haojie Zhang , Linli Yao , Lei Li , Jiali Chen , Tao Huang , Yiting Lu , Duojun Huang , Xin Li , Zhao Zhong

3D dense captioning, as an emerging vision-language task, aims to identify and locate each object from a set of point clouds and generate a distinctive natural language sentence for describing each located object. However, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yufeng Zhong , Long Xu , Jiebo Luo , Lin Ma

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

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

Artificial neural networks typically struggle in generalizing to out-of-context examples. One reason for this limitation is caused by having datasets that incorporate only partial information regarding the potential correlational structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Valentin Barriere , Felipe del Rio , Andres Carvallo De Ferari , Carlos Aspillaga , Eugenio Herrera-Berg , Cristian Buc Calderon

Neural captioners are typically trained to mimic human-generated references without optimizing for any specific communication goal, leading to problems such as the generation of vague captions. In this paper, we show that fine-tuning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Roberto Dessì , Michele Bevilacqua , Eleonora Gualdoni , Nathanael Carraz Rakotonirina , Francesca Franzon , Marco Baroni

Image captioning models generally lack the capability to take into account user interest, and usually default to global descriptions that try to balance readability, informativeness, and information overload. On the other hand, VQA models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Edwin G. Ng , Bo Pang , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

Attention mechanisms have attracted considerable interest in image captioning due to its powerful performance. However, existing methods use only visual content as attention and whether textual context can improve attention in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Luowei Zhou , Chenliang Xu , Parker Koch , Jason J. Corso

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

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

Training Large Multimodality Models (LMMs) relies on descriptive image caption that connects image and language. Existing methods for generating such captions often rely on distilling the captions from pretrained LMMs, constructing them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yanpeng Sun , Jing Hao , Ke Zhu , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Yuxiang Zhao , Xiaofan Li , Na Zhao , Zechao Li , Jingdong Wang

We investigate the problem of understanding the message (gist) conveyed by images and their captions as found, for instance, on websites or news articles. To this end, we propose a methodology to capture the meaning of image-caption pairs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Lydia Weiland , Ioana Hulpus , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Wolfgang Effelsberg , Laura Dietz

This paper presents a novel approach for automatically generating image descriptions: visual detectors, language models, and multimodal similarity models learnt directly from a dataset of image captions. We use multiple instance learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Hao Fang , Saurabh Gupta , Forrest Iandola , Rupesh Srivastava , Li Deng , Piotr Dollár , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Margaret Mitchell , John C. Platt , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Geoffrey Zweig

Image captioning, a popular topic in computer vision, has achieved substantial progress in recent years. However, the distinctiveness of natural descriptions is often overlooked in previous work. It is closely related to the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

The objective of image captioning models is to bridge the gap between the visual and linguistic modalities by generating natural language descriptions that accurately reflect the content of input images. In recent years, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alessandro Nicolosi , Rita Cucchiara

Developers of text generation models rely on automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for slow and expensive manual evaluations. However, image captioning metrics have struggled to give accurate learned estimates of the semantic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mert İnan , Piyush Sharma , Baber Khalid , Radu Soricut , Matthew Stone , Malihe Alikhani

Text-to-image generation and image captioning are recently emerged as a new experimental paradigm to assess machine intelligence. They predict continuous quantity accompanied by their sampling techniques in the generation, making evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jin-Hwa Kim , Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Sang-Woo Lee

High-performance Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are heavily dependent on data quality. To advance fine-grained image recognition within MLLMs, we introduce a novel data synthesis method inspired by contrastive learning and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Qirui Jiao , Daoyuan Chen , Yilun Huang , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen