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Fine-grained knowledge is crucial for vision-language models to obtain a better understanding of the real world. While there has been work trying to acquire this kind of knowledge in the space of vision and language, it has mostly focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Melika Behjati , James Henderson

We investigate the incorporation of visual relationships into the task of supervised image caption generation by proposing a model that leverages detected objects and auto-generated visual relationships to describe images in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Maximilian Mozes , Martin Schmitt , Vladimir Golkov , Hinrich Schütze , Daniel Cremers

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

Generating natural language descriptions of images is an important capability for a robot or other visual-intelligence driven AI agent that may need to communicate with human users about what it is seeing. Such image captioning methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Li Zhang , Flood Sung , Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

We address the challenging problem of image captioning by revisiting the representation of image scene graph. At the core of our method lies the decomposition of a scene graph into a set of sub-graphs, with each sub-graph capturing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yiwu Zhong , Liwei Wang , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , Yin Li

Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

Vision-language models can assess visual context in an image and generate descriptive text. While the generated text may be accurate and syntactically correct, it is often overly general. To address this, recent work has used optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Wes Robbins , Zanyar Zohourianshahzadi , Jugal Kalita

Recently, much advance has been made in image captioning, and an encoder-decoder framework has been adopted by all the state-of-the-art models. Under this framework, an input image is encoded by a convolutional neural network (CNN) and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Wenhao Jiang , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang

Image captioning aims at automatically generating descriptions of an image in natural language. This is a challenging problem in the field of artificial intelligence that has recently received significant attention in the computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Hassan Maleki Galandouz , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Mehrnoush Shamsfard

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

Inspired by retrieval-augmented language generation and pretrained Vision and Language (V&L) encoders, we present a new approach to image captioning that generates sentences given the input image and a set of captions retrieved from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Rita Ramos , Desmond Elliott , Bruno Martins

Image captioning aims to automatically generate a natural language description of a given image, and most state-of-the-art models have adopted an encoder-decoder framework. The framework consists of a convolution neural network (CNN)-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jun Yu , Jing Li , Zhou Yu , Qingming Huang

State-of-the-art image captioning methods mostly focus on improving visual features, less attention has been paid to utilizing the inherent properties of language to boost captioning performance. In this paper, we show that vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lei Ke , Wenjie Pei , Ruiyu Li , Xiaoyong Shen , Yu-Wing Tai

Recent lightweight retrieval-augmented image caption models often utilize retrieved data solely as text prompts, thereby creating a semantic gap by leaving the original visual features unenhanced, particularly for object details or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Binbin Li , Guimiao Yang , Zisen Qi , Haiping Wang , Yu Ding

Extracting context from visual representations is of utmost importance in the advancement of Computer Science. Representation of such a format in Natural Language has a huge variety of applications such as helping the visually impaired etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Madhavan Seshadri , Malavika Srikanth , Mikhail Belov

Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in developing better image captioning models, yet most of them rely on a separate object detector to extract regional features. Recent vision-language studies are shifting towards the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Lin Liang , Zhe Gan , Lijuan Wang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in split-DNN configurations--with visual encoders (e.g., ResNet, ViT) operating on user devices and sending intermediate features to the cloud--there is a growing privacy risk from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Kedong Xiu , Sai Qian Zhang

Image captioning is a challenging task and attracting more and more attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and which can be applied to efficient image retrieval, intelligent blind guidance and human-computer interaction, etc. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yiyu Wang , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Ben He

Image captioning transforms complex visual information into abstract natural language for representation, which can help computers understanding the world quickly. However, due to the complexity of the real environment, it needs to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Xinxin Zhu , Weining Wang , Longteng Guo , Jing Liu

Image captioning has drawn considerable attention from the natural language processing and computer vision fields. Aiming to reduce the reliance on curated data, several studies have explored image captioning without any humanly-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Rui Fonseca , Bruno Martins , Gil Rocha