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Image captioning is a research hotspot where encoder-decoder models combining convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) achieve promising results. Despite significant progress, these models generate sentences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hongwei Ge , Zehang Yan , Kai Zhang , Mingde Zhao , Liang Sun

Describing images in natural language is a fundamental step towards the automatic modeling of connections between the visual and textual modalities. In this paper we present CaMEL, a novel Transformer-based architecture for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Manuele Barraco , Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Generating visually grounded image captions with specific linguistic styles using unpaired stylistic corpora is a challenging task, especially since we expect stylized captions with a wide variety of stylistic patterns. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Kanzhi Cheng , Zheng Ma , Shi Zong , Jianbing Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offer inherent interpretability by initially translating images into human-comprehensible concepts, followed by a linear combination of these concepts for classification. However, the annotation of concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hangzhou He , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Shuang Zeng , Qian Chen , Yanye Lu

A creative image-and-text generative AI system mimics humans' extraordinary abilities to provide users with diverse and comprehensive caption suggestions, as well as rich image creations. In this work, we demonstrate such an AI creation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yupan Huang , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Yutong Lu

The aim of image captioning is to generate captions by machine to describe image contents. Despite many efforts, generating discriminative captions for images remains non-trivial. Most traditional approaches imitate the language structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Xihui Liu , Hongsheng Li , Jing Shao , Dapeng Chen , Xiaogang Wang

Image captioning is the generation of natural language descriptions of images which have increased immense popularity in the recent past. With this different deep-learning techniques are devised for the development of factual and stylized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dhruv Sharma , Chhavi Dhiman , Dinesh Kumar

Generating a novel textual description of an image is an interesting problem that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a simple model that is able to generate descriptive sentences given a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Rémi Lebret , Pedro O. Pinheiro , Ronan Collobert

State-of-the-art image captioners can generate accurate sentences to describe images in a sequence to sequence manner without considering the controllability and interpretability. This, however, is far from making image captioning widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Luka Maxwell

Image captioning aims to describe visual content in natural language. As 'a picture is worth a thousand words', there could be various correct descriptions for an image. However, with maximum likelihood estimation as the training objective,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zihao Yue , Anwen Hu , Liang Zhang , Qin Jin

Social media advertisements are key for brand marketing, aiming to attract consumers with captivating captions and pictures or logos. While previous research has focused on generating captions for general images, incorporating brand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Himanshu Maheshwari , Koustava Goswami , Apoorv Saxena , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Recent multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle to generate personalized image captions, even when trained on high-quality captions. In this work, we observe that such limitations persist in existing post-training-based MLLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yeongtak Oh , Dohyun Chung , Juhyeon Shin , Sangha Park , Johan Barthelemy , Jisoo Mok , Sungroh Yoon

Music captioning, or the task of generating a natural language description of music, is useful for both music understanding and controllable music generation. Training captioning models, however, typically requires high-quality music…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Irmak Bukey , Zhepei Wang , Chris Donahue , Nicholas J. Bryan

We examine the possibility that recent promising results in automatic caption generation are due primarily to language models. By varying image representation quality produced by a convolutional neural network, we find that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Jack Hessel , Nicolas Savva , Michael J. Wilber

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

Automatic image captioning has recently approached human-level performance due to the latest advances in computer vision and natural language understanding. However, most of the current models can only generate plain factual descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Quanzeng You , Hailin Jin , Jiebo Luo

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

Existing image captioning systems are dedicated to generating narrative captions for images, which are spatially detached from the image in presentation. However, texts can also be used as decorations on the image to highlight the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yiqi Gao , Xinglin Hou , Yuanmeng Zhang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Peng Wang

Image captioning has so far been explored mostly in English, as most available datasets are in this language. However, the application of image captioning should not be restricted by language. Only few studies have been conducted for image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Weiyu Lan , Xirong Li , Jianfeng Dong

Current captioning approaches can describe images using black-box architectures whose behavior is hardly controllable and explainable from the exterior. As an image can be described in infinite ways depending on the goal and the context at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara