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Autoregressive language models are widely used for text evaluation, however, their left-to-right factorization introduces positional bias, i.e., early tokens are scored with only leftward context, conflating architectural asymmetry with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wen Lai , Yingli Shen , Dingnan Jin , Qing Cui , Jun Zhou , Maosong Sun , Alexander Fraser

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality, realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these approaches have faced challenges in precisely aligning the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zutao Jiang , Guian Fang , Jianhua Han , Guansong Lu , Hang Xu , Shengcai Liao , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Recently it has shown that the policy-gradient methods for reinforcement learning have been utilized to train deep end-to-end systems on natural language processing tasks. What's more, with the complexity of understanding image content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Haichao Shi , Peng Li , Bo Wang , Zhenyu Wang

The diffusion-based text-to-image model harbors immense potential in transferring reference style. However, current encoder-based approaches significantly impair the text controllability of text-to-image models while transferring styles. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Tianhao Qi , Shancheng Fang , Yanze Wu , Hongtao Xie , Jiawei Liu , Lang Chen , Qian He , Yongdong Zhang

The objective of image captioning models is to bridge the gap between the visual and linguistic modalities by generating natural language descriptions that accurately reflect the content of input images. In recent years, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alessandro Nicolosi , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning models generally lack the capability to take into account user interest, and usually default to global descriptions that try to balance readability, informativeness, and information overload. On the other hand, VQA models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Edwin G. Ng , Bo Pang , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

Despite the tremendous success of diffusion generative models in text-to-image generation, replicating this success in the domain of image compression has proven difficult. In this paper, we demonstrate that diffusion can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Emiel Hoogeboom , Eirikur Agustsson , Fabian Mentzer , Luca Versari , George Toderici , Lucas Theis

It has been a longstanding goal within image captioning to move beyond a dependence on object detection. We investigate using superpixels coupled with Vision Language Models (VLMs) to bridge the gap between detector-based captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Henry Senior , Luca Rossi , Gregory Slabaugh , Shanxin Yuan

Recent data-driven image colorization methods have enabled automatic or reference-based colorization, while still suffering from unsatisfactory and inaccurate object-level color control. To address these issues, we propose a new method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Jianxin Lin , Peng Xiao , Yijun Wang , Rongju Zhang , Xiangxiang Zeng

Large-scale diffusion-based generative models have led to breakthroughs in text-conditioned high-resolution image synthesis. Starting from random noise, such text-to-image diffusion models gradually synthesize images in an iterative fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yogesh Balaji , Seungjun Nah , Xun Huang , Arash Vahdat , Jiaming Song , Qinsheng Zhang , Karsten Kreis , Miika Aittala , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine , Bryan Catanzaro , Tero Karras , Ming-Yu Liu

We explore an efficient approach to establish a foundational video-text model. We present VideoCoCa that maximally reuses a pretrained image-text contrastive captioner (CoCa) model and adapt it to video-text tasks with minimal extra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Shen Yan , Tao Zhu , Zirui Wang , Yuan Cao , Mi Zhang , Soham Ghosh , Yonghui Wu , Jiahui Yu

Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

Video captioning is a challenging task since it requires generating sentences describing various diverse and complex videos. Existing video captioning models lack adequate visual representation due to the neglect of the existence of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mingkang Tang , Zhanyu Wang , Zhenhua Liu , Fengyun Rao , Dian Li , Xiu Li

Recent advances in image captioning have focused on scaling the data and model size, substantially increasing the cost of pre-training and finetuning. As an alternative to large models, we present SmallCap, which generates a caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Rita Ramos , Bruno Martins , Desmond Elliott , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Existing image captioning models do not generalize well to out-of-domain images containing novel scenes or objects. This limitation severely hinders the use of these models in real world applications dealing with images in the wild. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Peter Anderson , Basura Fernando , Mark Johnson , Stephen Gould

Image Captioning, or the automatic generation of descriptions for images, is one of the core problems in Computer Vision and has seen considerable progress using Deep Learning Techniques. We propose to use Inception-ResNet Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Sulabh Katiyar , Samir Kumar Borgohain

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant paradigm in image generation. Discretizing image data into tokens is a critical step for effectively integrating images with Transformer and other architectures. Although the Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Fei Kong

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

We demonstrate text as a strong cross-modal interface. Rather than relying on deep embeddings to connect image and language as the interface representation, our approach represents an image as text, from which we enjoy the interpretability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Chen Wei , Chenxi Liu , Siyuan Qiao , Zhishuai Zhang , Alan Yuille , Jiahui Yu