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The use of explicit object detectors as an intermediate step to image captioning - which used to constitute an essential stage in early work - is often bypassed in the currently dominant end-to-end approaches, where the language model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

Caption quality has emerged as a critical bottleneck in training high-quality text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) generative models. While visual language models (VLMs) are commonly deployed to generate captions from visual data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Varun Ananth , Baqiao Liu , Haoran Cai

Most of us are not experts in specific fields, such as ornithology. Nonetheless, we do have general image and language understanding capabilities that we use to match what we see to expert resources. This allows us to expand our knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Subhabrata Choudhury , Iro Laina , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

How do two sets of images differ? Discerning set-level differences is crucial for understanding model behaviors and analyzing datasets, yet manually sifting through thousands of images is impractical. To aid in this discovery process, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Lisa Dunlap , Yuhui Zhang , Xiaohan Wang , Ruiqi Zhong , Trevor Darrell , Jacob Steinhardt , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Serena Yeung-Levy

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

Although significant progress has been made in the field of automatic image captioning, it is still a challenging task. Previous works normally pay much attention to improving the quality of the generated captions but ignore the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Qingzhong Wang , Antoni B. Chan

Video captioning generate a sentence that describes the video content. Existing methods always require a number of captions (\eg, 10 or 20) per video to train the model, which is quite costly. In this work, we explore the possibility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ping Li , Tao Wang , Xinkui Zhao , Xianghua Xu , Mingli Song

Image captioning is a technology that produces text-based descriptions for an image. Deep learning-based solutions built on top of feature recognition may very well serve the purpose. But as with any other machine learning solution, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Rishi Kesav Mohan , Sanjay Sureshkumar , Vignesh Sivasubramaniam

Image captioning is an interdisciplinary research problem that stands between computer vision and natural language processing. The task is to generate a textual description of the content of an image. The typical model used for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Loris Bazzani , Tobias Domhan , Felix Hieber

Visual perceptual tasks aim to predict human judgment of images (e.g., emotions invoked by images, image quality assessment). Unlike objective tasks such as object/scene recognition, perceptual tasks rely on subjective human assessments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Amit Zalcher , Navve Wasserman , Roman Beliy , Oliver Heinimann , Michal Irani

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

Image Captioning for state-of-the-art VLMs has significantly improved over time; however, this comes at the cost of increased computational complexity, making them less accessible for resource-constrained applications such as mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sania Waheed , Na Min An

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

Medical image captioning is a challenging task that requires generating clinically accurate and semantically meaningful descriptions of radiology images. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) such as BLIP, BLIP2, Gemini and ViT-GPT2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Manshi Limbu , Diwita Banerjee

Image captioning models are typically trained by treating all samples equally, neglecting to account for mismatched or otherwise difficult data points. In contrast, recent work has shown the effectiveness of training models by scheduling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Wenyan Li , Jonas F. Lotz , Chen Qiu , Desmond Elliott

Image captioning is one of the straightforward tasks that can take advantage of large-scale web-crawled data which provides rich knowledge about the visual world for a captioning model. However, since web-crawled data contains image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Wooyoung Kang , Jonghwan Mun , Sungjun Lee , Byungseok Roh

Image Captioning is a fundamental task to join vision and language, concerning about cross-modal understanding and text generation. Recent years witness the emerging attention on image captioning. Most of existing works follow a traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Ziyang Luo , Yadong Xi , Rongsheng Zhang , Jing Ma

Image captioning models aim at connecting Vision and Language by providing natural language descriptions of input images. In the past few years, the task has been tackled by learning parametric models and proposing visual feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning, a popular topic in computer vision, has achieved substantial progress in recent years. However, the distinctiveness of natural descriptions is often overlooked in previous work. It is closely related to the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Image Captioning is a task that combines computer vision and natural language processing, where it aims to generate descriptive legends for images. It is a two-fold process relying on accurate image understanding and correct language…

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