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Recently, the state-of-the-art models for image captioning have overtaken human performance based on the most popular metrics, such as BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE, and CIDEr. Does this mean we have solved the task of image captioning? The above…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Qingzhong Wang , Antoni B. Chan

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

Recent works find that AI algorithms learn biases from data. Therefore, it is urgent and vital to identify biases in AI algorithms. However, the previous bias identification pipeline overly relies on human experts to conjecture potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Zhiheng Li , Chenliang Xu

Generating natural language descriptions of images is an important capability for a robot or other visual-intelligence driven AI agent that may need to communicate with human users about what it is seeing. Such image captioning methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Li Zhang , Flood Sung , Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

We propose SC-Captioner, a reinforcement learning framework that enables the self-correcting capability of image caption models. Our crucial technique lies in the design of the reward function to incentivize accurate caption corrections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lin Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Kangcong Li , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

This study aims to explore efficient tuning methods for the screenshot captioning task. Recently, image captioning has seen significant advancements, but research in captioning tasks for mobile screens remains relatively scarce. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ching-Yu Chiang , I-Hua Chang , Shih-Wei Liao

Image captioning has long been a pivotal task in visual understanding, with recent advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) significantly enhancing the ability to generate detailed image captions. However, the evaluation of detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Qinghao Ye , Xianhan Zeng , Fu Li , Chunyuan Li , Haoqi Fan

Training text-to-image (T2I) models with detailed captions can significantly improve their generation quality. Existing methods often rely on simplistic metrics like caption length to represent the detailness of the caption in the T2I…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xinran Wang , Muxi Diao , Yuanzhi Liu , Chunyu Wang , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo

Attention mechanisms have attracted considerable interest in image captioning because of its powerful performance. Existing attention-based models use feedback information from the caption generator as guidance to determine which of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Zhihao Zhu , Zhan Xue , Zejian Yuan

Recent works in image captioning have shown very promising raw performance. However, we realize that most of these encoder-decoder style networks with attention do not scale naturally to large vocabulary size, making them difficult to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jia Huei Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Joon Huang Chuah

Benefiting from advances in machine vision and natural language processing techniques, current image captioning systems are able to generate detailed visual descriptions. For the most part, these descriptions represent an objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

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 models require the high-level generalization ability to describe the contents of various images in words. Most existing approaches treat the image-caption pairs equally in their training without considering the differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hongkuan Zhang , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa , Lei Zhou , Ryohei Sasano , Koichi Takeda

Image captioning is a challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate a natural language description of an image. Most recent researches follow the encoder-decoder framework which depends heavily on the previous generated words for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou , Zhendong Mao , Jianlong Tan

Image captioning has conventionally relied on reference-based automatic evaluations, where machine captions are compared against captions written by humans. This is in contrast to the reference-free manner in which humans assess caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jack Hessel , Ari Holtzman , Maxwell Forbes , Ronan Le Bras , Yejin Choi

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have greatly improved image understanding and captioning capabilities. However, existing image captioning benchmarks typically suffer from limited diversity in caption length, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Shengyao Qin , Guangyu Yang , Guangji Ma , Xiongkuo Min , Ke Gu , Guangtao Zhai , Patrick Le Callet

Image classification models often learn to predict a class based on irrelevant co-occurrences between input features and an output class in training data. We call the unwanted correlations "data biases," and the visual features causing data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Bum Chul Kwon , Jungsoo Lee , Chaeyeon Chung , Nyoungwoo Lee , Ho-Jin Choi , Jaegul Choo

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 Captioning is a current research task to describe the image content using the objects and their relationships in the scene. To tackle this task, two important research areas converge, artificial vision, and natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Othón González-Chávez , Guillermo Ruiz , Daniela Moctezuma , Tania A. Ramirez-delReal

Controllable Image Captioning (CIC) aims at generating natural language descriptions for an image, conditioned on information provided by end users, e.g., regions, entities or events of interest. However, available image-language datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Kalliopi Basioti , Mohamed A. Abdelsalam , Federico Fancellu , Vladimir Pavlovic , Afsaneh Fazly