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With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), it has become a common practice to train models on synthetic data due to data-scarcity and privacy leakage problems. Owing to massive and diverse information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shiye Lei , Hao Chen , Sen Zhang , Bo Zhao , Dacheng Tao

The mainstream image captioning models rely on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image features to generate captions via recurrent models. Recently, image scene graphs have been used to augment captioning models so as to leverage their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Kien Nguyen , Subarna Tripathi , Bang Du , Tanaya Guha , Truong Q. Nguyen

Generating accurate, informative, and hallucination-free captions for charts remains challenging for vision language models, primarily due to the lack of large-scale, high-quality datasets of real-world charts. However, existing real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Junyoung Lim , Jaewoo Ahn , Gunhee Kim

Benefiting from advances in machine vision and natural language processing techniques, current image captioning systems are able to generate detailed visual descriptions. For the most part, these descriptions represent an objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

High-quality scientific illustrations are essential for communicating complex scientific and technical concepts, yet existing automated systems remain limited in editability, stylistic controllability, and efficiency. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhen Lin , Qiujie Xie , Minjun Zhu , Shichen Li , Qiyao Sun , Enhao Gu , Yiran Ding , Ke Sun , Fang Guo , Panzhong Lu , Zhiyuan Ning , Yixuan Weng , Yue Zhang

The advent of vision-language pre-training techniques enhanced substantial progress in the development of models for image captioning. However, these models frequently produce generic captions and may omit semantically important image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Noam Rotstein , David Bensaid , Shaked Brody , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel

Humor, deeply rooted in societal meanings and cultural details, poses a unique challenge for machines. While advances have been made in natural language processing, real-world humor often thrives in a multi-modal context, encapsulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuyan Chen , Songzhou Yan , Zhihong Zhu , Zhixu Li , Yanghua Xiao

This paper addresses the problem of generating table captions for scholarly documents, which often require additional information outside the table. To this end, we propose a method of retrieving relevant sentences from the paper body, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Junjie H. Xu , Kohei Shinden , Makoto P. Kato

In many science papers, "Figure 1" serves as the primary visual summary of the core research idea. These figures are visually simple yet conceptually rich, often requiring significant effort and iteration by human authors to get right,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yaohan Guan , Pristina Wang , Najim Dehak , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen , Daniel Khashabi

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

The rapid advancement of generative AI has introduced a new class of tools capable of producing publication-quality scientific figures, graphical abstracts, and data visualizations. However, academic publishers have responded with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Davie Chen

Current image captioning approaches generate descriptions which lack specific information, such as named entities that are involved in the images. In this paper we propose a new task which aims to generate informative image captions, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Di Lu , Spencer Whitehead , Lifu Huang , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

Figures visually represent an essential piece of information and provide an effective means to communicate scientific facts. Recently there have been many efforts toward extracting data directly from figures, specifically from tables,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Anurag Dhote , Mohammed Javed , David S Doermann

Image captioning systems often produce generic descriptions that fail to capture event-level semantics which are crucial for applications like news reporting and digital archiving. We present ReCap, a novel pipeline for event-enriched image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Thinh-Phuc Nguyen , Thanh-Hai Nguyen , Gia-Huy Dinh , Lam-Huy Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

Memes are a widely popular tool for web users to express their thoughts using visual metaphors. Understanding memes requires recognizing and interpreting visual metaphors with respect to the text inside or around the meme, often while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 EunJeong Hwang , Vered Shwartz

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

In this paper, we propose a solution for improving the quality of captions generated for figures in papers. We adopt the approach of summarizing the textual content in the paper to generate image captions. Throughout our study, we encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dian Chao , Xin Song , Shupeng Zhong , Boyuan Wang , Xiangyu Wu , Chen Zhu , Yang Yang

Most current image captioning systems focus on describing general image content, and lack background knowledge to deeply understand the image, such as exact named entities or concrete events. In this work, we focus on the entity-aware news…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Anwen Hu , Shizhe Chen , Qin Jin

News Image Captioning aims to create captions from news articles and images, emphasizing the connection between textual context and visual elements. Recognizing the significance of human faces in news images and the face-name co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tingyu Qu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens

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