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Controllable Image Captioning is a recent sub-field in the multi-modal task of Image Captioning wherein constraints are placed on which regions in an image should be described in the generated natural language caption. This puts a stronger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Annika Lindh , Robert J. Ross , John D. Kelleher

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

Text-based image captioning (TextCap) which aims to read and reason images with texts is crucial for a machine to understand a detailed and complex scene environment, considering that texts are omnipresent in daily life. This task, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Guanghui Xu , Shuaicheng Niu , Mingkui Tan , Yucheng Luo , Qing Du , Qi Wu

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

Image Captioning is a task that requires models to acquire a multi-modal understanding of the world and to express this understanding in natural language text. While the state-of-the-art for this task has rapidly improved in terms of n-gram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Annika Lindh , Robert J. Ross , Abhijit Mahalunkar , Giancarlo Salton , John D. Kelleher

Automatically generating descriptive captions for images is a well-researched area in computer vision. However, existing evaluation approaches focus on measuring the similarity between two sentences disregarding fine-grained semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Dan Zecha , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

In this paper, we propose to guide the video caption generation with Part-of-Speech (POS) information, based on a gated fusion of multiple representations of input videos. We construct a novel gated fusion network, with one particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Bairui Wang , Lin Ma , Wei Zhang , Wenhao Jiang , Jingwen Wang , Wei Liu

State-of-the-art approaches for image captioning require supervised training data consisting of captions with paired image data. These methods are typically unable to use unsupervised data such as textual data with no corresponding images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wenhu Chen , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Significant performance gains in deep learning coupled with the exponential growth of image and video data on the Internet have resulted in the recent emergence of automated image captioning systems. Ensuring scalability of automated image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Karan Sharma , Arun CS Kumar , Suchendra Bhandarkar

Image captioning is the process of generating a natural language description of an image. Most current image captioning models, however, do not take into account the emotional aspect of an image, which is very relevant to activities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Peter Anderson , Len Hamey

Image captioning requires numerous annotated image-text pairs, resulting in substantial annotation costs. Recently, large models (e.g. diffusion models and large language models) have excelled in producing high-quality images and text. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Feipeng Ma , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

Image captioning is a task in the field of Artificial Intelligence that merges between computer vision and natural language processing. It is responsible for generating legends that describe images, and has various applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ahmed Elhagry , Karima Kadaoui

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

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

Image captioning has emerged as an interesting research field in recent years due to its broad application scenarios. The traditional paradigm of image captioning relies on paired image-caption datasets to train the model in a supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiahui Gao , Yi Zhou , Philip L. H. Yu , Shafiq Joty , Jiuxiang Gu

Image captioning models typically follow an encoder-decoder architecture which uses abstract image feature vectors as input to the encoder. One of the most successful algorithms uses feature vectors extracted from the region proposals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Simao Herdade , Armin Kappeler , Kofi Boakye , Joao Soares

Most current image captioning models typically generate captions from left-to-right. This unidirectional property makes them can only leverage past context but not future context. Though refinement-based models can exploit both past and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zijie Song , Yuanen Zhou , Zhenzhen Hu , Daqing Liu , Huixia Ben , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

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

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

Recent progress on image captioning has made it possible to generate novel sentences describing images in natural language, but compressing an image into a single sentence can describe visual content in only coarse detail. While one new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Jonathan Krause , Justin Johnson , Ranjay Krishna , Li Fei-Fei