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Image captioning implies automatically generating textual descriptions of images based only on the visual input. Although this has been an extensively addressed research topic in recent years, not many contributions have been made in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Eva Cetinic

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

Image captioning is a challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate a natural language description of an image. Most recent researches follow the encoder-decoder framework which depends heavily on the previous generated words for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou , Zhendong Mao , Jianlong Tan

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of neural networks by basing predictions on human-understandable concepts. However, current CBMs typically rely on concept sets extracted from large language models or extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Katharina Prasse , Patrick Knab , Sascha Marton , Christian Bartelt , Margret Keuper

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) using image-level labels typically utilizes Class Activation Map (CAM) to generate the pseudo labels. Limited by the local structure perception of CNN, CAM usually cannot identify the integral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Lixiang Ru , Heliang Zheng , Yibing Zhan , Bo Du

Recent advancements in image captioning have explored text-only training methods to overcome the limitations of paired image-text data. However, existing text-only training methods often overlook the modality gap between using text data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Soeun Lee , Si-Woo Kim , Taewhan Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

The de-facto approach to many vision tasks is to start from pretrained visual representations, typically learned via supervised training on ImageNet. Recent methods have explored unsupervised pretraining to scale to vast quantities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Karan Desai , Justin Johnson

In this work, we present a novel direction to build an image tokenizer directly on top of a frozen vision foundation model, which is a largely underexplored area. Specifically, we employ a frozen vision foundation model as the encoder of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anlin Zheng , Xin Wen , Xuanyang Zhang , Chuofan Ma , Tiancai Wang , Gang Yu , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

Large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have achieved remarkable success in zero-shot image recognition, yet their predictions remain largely opaque to human understanding. In contrast, Concept Bottleneck Models provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Onat Ozdemir , Anders Christensen , Stephan Alaniz , Zeynep Akata , Emre Akbas

In several real-world scenarios like autonomous navigation and mobility, to obtain a better visual understanding of the surroundings, image captioning and object detection play a crucial role. This work introduces a novel multitask learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Debolena Basak , P. K. Srijith , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

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

In this paper, we study the local visual modeling with grid features for image captioning, which is critical for generating accurate and detailed captions. To achieve this target, we propose a Locality-Sensitive Transformer Network (LSTNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yiwei Ma , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Yiyi Zhou , Rongrong Ji

Image captioning involves generating textual descriptions from input images, bridging the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Recent advancements in transformer-based models have significantly improved caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Israa A. Albadarneh , Bassam H. Hammo , Omar S. Al-Kadi

This paper addresses the task of generating fluent descriptions by training on a non-uniform combination of data sources, containing both human-annotated and web-collected captions. Large-scale datasets with noisy image-text pairs, indeed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Fiameni , Rita Cucchiara

Transformer-based deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various computer vision tasks, largely attributed to their long-range self-attention mechanism and scalability. However, most transformer architectures embed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Muyi Bao , Changyu Zeng , Yifan Wang , Zhengni Yang , Zimu Wang , Guangliang Cheng , Jun Qi , Wei Wang

Image captioning is a research area of immense importance, aiming to generate natural language descriptions for visual content in the form of still images. The advent of deep learning and more recently vision-language pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

Automated image captioning using the content from the image is very appealing when done by harnessing the capability of computer vision and natural language processing. Extensive research has been done in the field with a major focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wasim Akram Khan , Anil Kumar Vuppala

Recently, while significant progress has been made in remote sensing image change captioning, existing methods fail to filter out areas unrelated to actual changes, making models susceptible to irrelevant features. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Cong Yang , Zuchao Li , Hongzan Jiao , Zhi Gao , Lefei Zhang

Image captioning is an important but challenging task, applicable to virtual assistants, editing tools, image indexing, and support of the disabled. Its challenges are due to the variability and ambiguity of possible image descriptions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jyoti Aneja , Aditya Deshpande , Alexander Schwing

Recent advances in segmentation-free keyword spotting treat this problem w.r.t. an object detection paradigm and borrow from state-of-the-art detection systems to simultaneously propose a word bounding box proposal mechanism and compute a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Christophoros Nikou