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Recent neural models for image captioning usually employ an encoder-decoder framework with an attention mechanism. However, the attention mechanism in such a framework aligns one single (attended) image feature vector to one caption word,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Lun Huang , Wenmin Wang , Yaxian Xia , Jie Chen

Recent multimodal large language models have shown promising ability in generating humorous captions for images, yet they still lack stable control over explicit cultural context, making it difficult to jointly maintain image relevance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Run Xu , Lu Li , Rongzhao Zhang , Jie Xu

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

We present Caption, an LLM-powered content label generation tool for visual interactive elements on mobile devices. Content labels are essential for screen readers to provide announcements for image-based elements, but are often missing or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mingyuan Zhong , Ajit Mallavarapu , Qing Nie

Contextualized Image Captioning (CIC) evolves traditional image captioning into a more complex domain, necessitating the ability for multimodal reasoning. It aims to generate image captions given specific contextual information. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Shunqi Mao , Chaoyi Zhang , Hang Su , Hwanjun Song , Igor Shalyminov , Weidong Cai

Current image captioning systems perform at a merely descriptive level, essentially enumerating the objects in the scene and their relations. Humans, on the contrary, interpret images by integrating several sources of prior knowledge of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Ali Furkan Biten , Lluis Gomez , Marçal Rusiñol , Dimosthenis Karatzas

We introduce a novel framework for image captioning that can produce natural language explicitly grounded in entities that object detectors find in the image. Our approach reconciles classical slot filling approaches (that are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jiasen Lu , Jianwei Yang , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Automatic image captioning has recently approached human-level performance due to the latest advances in computer vision and natural language understanding. However, most of the current models can only generate plain factual descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Quanzeng You , Hailin Jin , Jiebo Luo

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

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

When captioning an image, people describe objects in diverse ways, such as by using different terms and/or including details that are perceptually noteworthy to them. Descriptions can be especially unique across languages and cultures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Kyle Buettner , Jacob T. Emmerson , Adriana Kovashka

Web-scale training on paired text-image data is becoming increasingly central to multimodal learning, but is challenged by the highly noisy nature of datasets in the wild. Standard data filtering approaches succeed in removing mismatched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Moran Yanuka , Morris Alper , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Raja Giryes

While there have been significant gains in the field of automated video description, the generalization performance of automated description models to novel domains remains a major barrier to using these systems in the real world. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 David M. Chan , Austin Myers , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , David A. Ross , Bryan Seybold , John F. Canny

Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi

Existing image captioning systems are dedicated to generating narrative captions for images, which are spatially detached from the image in presentation. However, texts can also be used as decorations on the image to highlight the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yiqi Gao , Xinglin Hou , Yuanmeng Zhang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Peng Wang

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

Text-based image captioning (TextCap) requires simultaneous comprehension of visual content and reading the text of images to generate a natural language description. Although a task can teach machines to understand the complex human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Wenqiao Zhang , Haochen Shi , Jiannan Guo , Shengyu Zhang , Qingpeng Cai , Juncheng Li , Sihui Luo , Yueting Zhuang

Automatically generating descriptive captions for images is a well-researched area in computer vision. However, existing evaluation approaches focus on measuring the similarity between two sentences disregarding fine-grained semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Dan Zecha , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

Controllable Image Captioning is a recent sub-field in the multi-modal task of Image Captioning wherein constraints are placed on which regions in an image should be described in the generated natural language caption. This puts a stronger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Annika Lindh , Robert J. Ross , John D. Kelleher

Recent advancements in image-conditioned image generation have demonstrated substantial progress. However, foreground-conditioned image generation remains underexplored, encountering challenges such as compromised object integrity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tianyidan Xie , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Xiaoqian Ye , Feixuan Liu , Ying Tai , Zhenyu Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi