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Recently, zero-shot image captioning has gained increasing attention, where only text data is available for training. The remarkable progress in text-to-image diffusion model presents the potential to resolve this task by employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianjie Luo , Jingwen Chen , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Jianlin Feng , Hongyang Chao , Ting Yao

Visual captioning benchmarks have become outdated with the emergence of modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as the brief ground-truth sentences and traditional metrics fail to assess detailed captions effectively. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zhihang Liu , Chen-Wei Xie , Bin Wen , Feiwu Yu , Jixuan Chen , Pandeng Li , Boqiang Zhang , Nianzu Yang , Yinglu Li , Zuan Gao , Yun Zheng , Hongtao Xie

Image captioning is the process of automatically generating a description of an image in natural language. Image captioning is one of the significant challenges in image understanding since it requires not only recognizing salient objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ghadah Alabduljabbar , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

In the domain of vision-language integration, generating detailed image captions poses a significant challenge due to the lack of curated and rich datasets. This study introduces PixLore, a novel method that leverages Querying Transformers…

The evaluation of image captions, looking at both linguistic fluency and semantic correspondence to visual contents, has witnessed a significant effort. Still, despite advancements such as the CLIPScore metric, multilingual captioning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gonçalo Gomes , Chrysoula Zerva , Bruno Martins

We address the task of detecting foiled image captions, i.e. identifying whether a caption contains a word that has been deliberately replaced by a semantically similar word, thus rendering it inaccurate with respect to the image being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Pranava Madhyastha , Josiah Wang , Lucia Specia

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) has shown remarkable zero-shot transfer capabilities in cross-modal correlation tasks such as visual classification and image retrieval. However, its performance in cross-modal generation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyang Wang , Yi Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Jitao Sang

Constructing an organized dataset comprised of a large number of images and several captions for each image is a laborious task, which requires vast human effort. On the other hand, collecting a large number of images and sentences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Dong-Jin Kim , Jinsoo Choi , Tae-Hyun Oh , In So Kweon

Automatic music captioning, which generates natural language descriptions for given music tracks, holds significant potential for enhancing the understanding and organization of large volumes of musical data. Despite its importance,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-01 SeungHeon Doh , Keunwoo Choi , Jongpil Lee , Juhan Nam

Video caption refers to generating a descriptive sentence for a specific short video clip automatically, which has achieved remarkable success recently. However, most of the existing methods focus more on visual information while ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Wangli Hao , Zhaoxiang Zhang , He Guan , Guibo Zhu

While image captioning provides isolated descriptions for individual images, and video captioning offers one single narrative for an entire video clip, our work explores an important middle ground: progress-aware video captioning at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zihui Xue , Joungbin An , Xitong Yang , Kristen Grauman

Effectively aligning with human judgment when evaluating machine-generated image captions represents a complex yet intriguing challenge. Existing evaluation metrics like CIDEr or CLIP-Score fall short in this regard as they do not take into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the fluency and logical coherence of image captioning. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely adopted to incorporate external knowledge into LLMs;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ruoyu Zhang , Lulu Wang , Yi He , Tongling Pan , Zhengtao Yu , Yingna Li

The evaluation of machine-generated image captions poses an interesting yet persistent challenge. Effective evaluation measures must consider numerous dimensions of similarity, including semantic relevance, visual structure, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Chan , Suzanne Petryk , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , John Canny

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

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

Captions are crucial for understanding scientific visualizations and documents. Existing captioning methods for scientific figures rely on figure-caption pairs extracted from documents for training, many of which fall short with respect to…

Currently, image-text-driven multi-modal deep learning models have demonstrated their outstanding potential in many fields. In practice, tasks centered around facial images have broad application prospects. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Dawei Dai , YuTang Li , YingGe Liu , Mingming Jia , Zhang YuanHui , Guoyin Wang

An outstanding image-text retrieval model depends on high-quality labeled data. While the builders of existing image-text retrieval datasets strive to ensure that the caption matches the linked image, they cannot prevent a caption from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Xu Yan , Chunhui Ai , Ziqiang Cao , Min Cao , Sujian Li , Wenjie Li , Guohong Fu

Hateful meme detection is a challenging multimodal task that requires comprehension of both vision and language, as well as cross-modal interactions. Recent studies have tried to fine-tune pre-trained vision-language models (PVLMs) for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Rui Cao , Ming Shan Hee , Adriel Kuek , Wen-Haw Chong , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Jing Jiang