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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

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

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

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

Our work aims to build a model that performs dual tasks of image captioning and image generation while being trained on only one task. The central idea is to train an invertible model that learns a one-to-one mapping between the image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Nandakishore S Menon , Chandramouli Kamanchi , Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi

Knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) involves questions that require world knowledge beyond the image to yield the correct answer. Large language models (LMs) like GPT-3 are particularly helpful for this task because of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yushi Hu , Hang Hua , Zhengyuan Yang , Weijia Shi , Noah A Smith , Jiebo Luo

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

An image captioning model flexibly switching its language pattern, e.g., descriptiveness and length, should be useful since it can be applied to diverse applications. However, despite the dramatic improvement in generative vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kuniaki Saito , Donghyun Kim , Kwanyong Park , Atsushi Hashimoto , Yoshitaka Ushiku

The image captioning task is about to generate suitable descriptions from images. For this task there can be several challenges such as accuracy, fluency and diversity. However there are few metrics that can cover all these properties while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chao Zeng , Sam Kwong

Recent large-scale text-driven synthesis models have attracted much attention thanks to their remarkable capabilities of generating highly diverse images that follow given text prompts. Such text-based synthesis methods are particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Amir Hertz , Ron Mokady , Jay Tenenbaum , Kfir Aberman , Yael Pritch , Daniel Cohen-Or

Image captioning is a multimodal task involving computer vision and natural language processing, where the goal is to learn a mapping from the image to its natural language description. In general, the mapping function is learned from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jiuxiang Gu , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Gang Wang

Well-designed prompts can guide text-to-image models to generate amazing images. However, the performant prompts are often model-specific and misaligned with user input. Instead of laborious human engineering, we propose prompt adaptation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yaru Hao , Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Furu Wei

In this report, I present an inpainting framework named \textit{ControlFill}, which involves training two distinct prompts: one for generating plausible objects within a designated mask (\textit{creation}) and another for filling the region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Boseong Jeon

Generating accurate and coherent image captions in a continual learning setting remains a major challenge due to catastrophic forgetting and the difficulty of aligning evolving visual concepts with language over time. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Bertram Taetz , Gal Bordelius

Diffusion models continuously push the boundary of state-of-the-art image generation, but the process is hard to control with any nuance: practice proves that textual prompts are inadequate for accurately describing image style or fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Ciara Rowles , Shimon Vainer , Dante De Nigris , Slava Elizarov , Konstantin Kutsy , Simon Donné

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

We present a novel data-efficient semi-supervised framework to improve the generalization of image captioning models. Constructing a large-scale labeled image captioning dataset is an expensive task in terms of labor, time, and cost. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Dong-Jin Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jinsoo Choi , In So Kweon

The last decade has witnessed remarkable progress in the image captioning task; however, most existing methods cannot control their captions, \emph{e.g.}, choosing to describe the image either roughly or in detail. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chaorui Deng , Ning Ding , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

Large pre-trained vision-language models, such as CLIP, have shown remarkable generalization capabilities across various tasks when appropriate text prompts are provided. However, adapting these models to specific domains, like remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Qinglong Cao , Zhengqin Xu , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Prompt learning has become one of the most efficient paradigms for adapting large pre-trained vision-language models to downstream tasks. Current state-of-the-art methods, like CoOp and ProDA, tend to adopt soft prompts to learn an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sifan Long , Zhen Zhao , Junkun Yuan , Zichang Tan , Jiangjiang Liu , Luping Zhou , Shengsheng Wang , Jingdong Wang