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The Image Difference Captioning (IDC) task aims to describe the visual differences between two similar images with natural language. The major challenges of this task lie in two aspects: 1) fine-grained visual differences that require…

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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…

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In this paper, we present an approach, namely Lexical Semantic Image Completion (LSIC), that may have potential applications in art, design, and heritage conservation, among several others. Existing image completion procedure is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shengyu Zhang , Tan Jiang , Qinghao Huang , Ziqi Tan , Zhou Zhao , Siliang Tang , Jin Yu , Hongxia Yang , Yi Yang , Fei Wu

Remote Sensing Image Captioning (RSIC) is the process of generating meaningful descriptions from remote sensing images. Recently, it has gained significant attention, with encoder-decoder models serving as the backbone for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Swadhin Das , Saarthak Gupta , Kamal Kumar , Raksha Sharma

Automatically translating images to texts involves image scene understanding and language modeling. In this paper, we propose a novel model, termed RefineCap, that refines the output vocabulary of the language decoder using decoder-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yekun Chai , Shuo Jin , Junliang Xing

Despite the success of various text generation metrics such as BERTScore, it is still difficult to evaluate the image captions without enough reference captions due to the diversity of the descriptions. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hwanhee Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Kyomin Jung

Semantic noise in image classification datasets, where visually similar categories are frequently mislabeled, poses a significant challenge to conventional supervised learning approaches. In this paper, we explore the potential of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yingxuan Li , Jiafeng Mao , Yusuke Matsui

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)~\citep{radford2021learning} has emerged as a pivotal model in computer vision and multimodal learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance at aligning visual and textual representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Yujia Zheng , Yu Yao , Zeyu Tang , Eric P. Xing , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Unsupervised machine learning is the training of an artificial intelligence system using information that is neither classified nor labeled, with a view to modeling the underlying structure or distribution in a dataset. Since unsupervised…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Xiaoyuan Xie , Zhiyi Zhang , Tsong Yueh Chen , Yang Liu , Pak-Lok Poon , Baowen Xu

Image emotion classification (IEC) is a longstanding research field that has received increasing attention with the rapid progress of deep learning. Although recent advances have leveraged the knowledge encoded in pre-trained visual models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zibo Zhou , Zhengjun Zhai , Huimin Chen , Wei Dai , Hansen Yang

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) generates natural language descriptions that precisely identify differences between two images, serving as a key benchmark for fine-grained change perception, cross-modal reasoning, and image editing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yuancheng Wei , Haojie Zhang , Linli Yao , Lei Li , Jiali Chen , Tao Huang , Yiting Lu , Duojun Huang , Xin Li , Zhao Zhong

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

Automatically describing the content of an image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a generative model based on a deep recurrent…

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With the huge expansion of internet and trillions of gigabytes of data generated every single day, the needs for the development of various tools has become mandatory in order to maintain system adaptability to rapid changes. One of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Borneel Bikash Phukan , Amiya Ranjan Panda

Controllable Image Captioning (CIC) -- generating natural language descriptions about images under the guidance of given control signals -- is one of the most promising directions towards next-generation captioning systems. Till now,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zhen Wang , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , Fei Gao , Jian Shao , Long Chen

Connecting Vision and Language plays an essential role in Generative Intelligence. For this reason, large research efforts have been devoted to image captioning, i.e. describing images with syntactically and semantically meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Silvia Cascianelli , Giuseppe Fiameni , Rita Cucchiara

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

The rapid advancement of generative models in creating highly realistic images poses substantial risks for misinformation dissemination. For instance, a synthetic image, when shared on social media, can mislead extensive audiences and erode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhenglin Huang , Jinwei Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yiwei He , Xingyu Zhao , Bei Peng , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaowei Huang , Guangliang Cheng

In image captioning where fluency is an important factor in evaluation, e.g., $n$-gram metrics, sequential models are commonly used; however, sequential models generally result in overgeneralized expressions that lack the details that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Junjiao Tian , Jean Oh

Image captioning models are widely used to describe recent and archived pictures with the objective of improving their accessibility and retrieval. Yet, these approaches tend to be inefficient and biased at retrieving people's names. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yannis Tevissen , Khalil Guetari , Marine Tassel , Erwan Kerleroux , Frédéric Petitpont