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We learn visual features by captioning images with an image-conditioned masked diffusion language model, a formulation we call masked diffusion captioning (MDC). During training, text tokens in each image-caption pair are masked at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chao Feng , Zihao Wei , Andrew Owens

Video captioning has been attracting broad research attention in multimedia community. However, most existing approaches either ignore temporal information among video frames or just employ local contextual temporal knowledge. In this work,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Yi Bin , Yang Yang , Zi Huang , Fumin Shen , Xing Xu , Heng Tao Shen

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in various domains, yet it often relies on carefully designed programmatic reward functions to guide agent behavior. Designing such reward functions can be challenging and may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Qi Wang , Mian Wu , Yuyang Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Wenyao Zhang , Haoxiang You , Yunbo Wang , Xin Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

Online video web content is richly multimodal: a single video blends vision, speech, ambient audio, and on-screen text. Retrieval systems typically treat these modalities as independent retrieval sources, which can lead to noisy and subpar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 David Wan , Han Wang , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal

A more robust and holistic language-video representation is the key to pushing video understanding forward. Despite the improvement in training strategies, the quality of the language-video dataset is less attention to. The current plain…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yuchen Yang , Yingxuan Duan

Reasoning about causal and temporal event relations in videos is a new destination of Video Question Answering (VideoQA).The major stumbling block to achieve this purpose is the semantic gap between language and video since they are at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Shaoning Xiao , Long Chen , Kaifeng Gao , Zhao Wang , Yi Yang , Zhimeng Zhang , Jun Xiao

While significant progress has been made in the image captioning task, video description is still in its infancy due to the complex nature of video data. Generating multi-sentence descriptions for long videos is even more challenging. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jae Sung Park , Marcus Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

Video captioning aims to generate comprehensive and coherent descriptions of the video content, contributing to the advancement of both video understanding and generation. However, existing methods often suffer from motion-detail imbalance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Chunlin Zhong , Qiuxia Hou , Zhangjun Zhou , Shuang Hao , Haonan Lu , Yanhao Zhang , He Tang , Xiang Bai

Traditional video captioning requests a holistic description of the video, yet the detailed descriptions of the specific objects may not be available. Without associating the moving trajectories, these image-based data-driven methods cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Fangyi Zhu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Zhanyu Ma , Guang Chen , Jun Guo

Fine-tuning image captioning models with hand-crafted rewards like the CIDEr metric has been a classical strategy for promoting caption quality at the sequence level. This approach, however, is known to limit descriptiveness and semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

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

As humans, we understand events in the visual world contextually, performing multimodal reasoning across time to make inferences about the past, present, and future. We introduce MERLOT, a model that learns multimodal script knowledge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Rowan Zellers , Ximing Lu , Jack Hessel , Youngjae Yu , Jae Sung Park , Jize Cao , Ali Farhadi , Yejin Choi

Generating video descriptions in natural language (a.k.a. video captioning) is a more challenging task than image captioning as the videos are intrinsically more complicated than images in two aspects. First, videos cover a broader range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Shizhe Chen , Jia Chen , Qin Jin

Video captioning is an advanced multi-modal task which aims to describe a video clip using a natural language sentence. The encoder-decoder framework is the most popular paradigm for this task in recent years. However, there exist some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Haoran Chen , Jianmin Li , Xiaolin Hu

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

One property that remains lacking in image captions generated by contemporary methods is discriminability: being able to tell two images apart given the caption for one of them. We propose a way to improve this aspect of caption generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ruotian Luo , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lucrezia Tosato , Gianluca Lombardi , Ronny Hansch

Accuracy and Diversity are two essential metrizable manifestations in generating natural and semantically correct captions. Many efforts have been made to enhance one of them with another decayed due to the trade-off gap. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Longzhen Yang , Yihang Liu , Yitao Peng , Lianghua He

In this paper, we introduce Key-Value Memory Networks to a multimodal setting and a novel key-addressing mechanism to deal with sequence-to-sequence models. The proposed model naturally decomposes the problem of video captioning into vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Arnav Kumar Jain , Abhinav Agarwalla , Kumar Krishna Agrawal , Pabitra Mitra

Text-to-Video generation, which utilizes the provided text prompt to generate high-quality videos, has drawn increasing attention and achieved great success due to the development of diffusion models recently. Existing methods mainly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Zirui Pan , Xin Wang , Yipeng Zhang , Hong Chen , Kwan Man Cheng , Yaofei Wu , Wenwu Zhu