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We present a method for synthesizing naturally looking images of multiple people interacting in a specific scenario. These images benefit from the advantages of synthetic data: being fully controllable and fully annotated with any type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Igor Kviatkovsky , Nadav Bhonker , Gerard Medioni

Image captioning is a longstanding problem in the field of computer vision and natural language processing. To date, researchers have produced impressive state-of-the-art performance in the age of deep learning. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zihang Meng , David Yang , Xuefei Cao , Ashish Shah , Ser-Nam Lim

Zero-shot Image Captioning (ZIC) increasingly utilizes synthetic datasets generated by text-to-image (T2I) models to mitigate the need for costly manual annotation. However, these T2I models often produce images that exhibit semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Si-Woo Kim , MinJu Jeon , Ye-Chan Kim , Soeun Lee , Taewhan Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

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

Generating novel pairs of image and text is a problem that combines computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present strategies for generating novel image and caption pairs based on existing captioning datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Jason Xie , Tingwen Bao

Image Captioning is a task that requires models to acquire a multi-modal understanding of the world and to express this understanding in natural language text. While the state-of-the-art for this task has rapidly improved in terms of n-gram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Annika Lindh , Robert J. Ross , Abhijit Mahalunkar , Giancarlo Salton , John D. Kelleher

Synthesizing realistic images from text descriptions on a dataset like Microsoft Common Objects in Context (MS COCO), where each image can contain several objects, is a challenging task. Prior work has used text captions to generate images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Shikhar Sharma , Dendi Suhubdy , Vincent Michalski , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Yoshua Bengio

Recent progress on automatic generation of image captions has shown that it is possible to describe the most salient information conveyed by images with accurate and meaningful sentences. In this paper, we propose an image caption system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Junqi Jin , Kun Fu , Runpeng Cui , Fei Sha , Changshui Zhang

Accurately reporting what objects are depicted in an image is largely a solved problem in automatic caption generation. The next big challenge on the way to truly humanlike captioning is being able to incorporate the context of the image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Sofia Nikiforova , Tejaswini Deoskar , Denis Paperno , Yoad Winter

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

Most of current image captioning models heavily rely on paired image-caption datasets. However, getting large scale image-caption paired data is labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this paper, we present a scene graph-based approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Jiuxiang Gu , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Handong Zhao , Xu Yang , Gang Wang

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

Existing video captioning approaches typically require to first sample video frames from a decoded video and then conduct a subsequent process (e.g., feature extraction and/or captioning model learning). In this pipeline, manual frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yaojie Shen , Xin Gu , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Longyin Wen , Libo Zhang

Image captioning has emerged as an interesting research field in recent years due to its broad application scenarios. The traditional paradigm of image captioning relies on paired image-caption datasets to train the model in a supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiahui Gao , Yi Zhou , Philip L. H. Yu , Shafiq Joty , Jiuxiang Gu

This paper introduces a large-scale multimodal and multilingual dataset that aims to facilitate research on grounding words to images in their contextual usage in language. The dataset consists of images selected to unambiguously illustrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Josiel Figueiredo , Chiraag Lala , Lucia Specia

We examine the possibility that recent promising results in automatic caption generation are due primarily to language models. By varying image representation quality produced by a convolutional neural network, we find that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Jack Hessel , Nicolas Savva , Michael J. Wilber

Understanding another person's creative output requires a shared language of association. However, when training vision-language models such as CLIP, we rely on web-scraped datasets containing short, predominantly literal, alt-text. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ananya Sahu , Amith Ananthram , Kathleen McKeown

Advancements in Text-to-Image synthesis over recent years have focused more on improving the quality of generated samples using datasets with descriptive prompts. However, real-world image-caption pairs present in domains such as news data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan , Sharon X. Huang , Dongwon Lee

Automatically generating natural language descriptions from an image is a challenging problem in artificial intelligence that requires a good understanding of the visual and textual signals and the correlations between them. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Arushi Goel , Basura Fernando , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Hakan Bilen

Supervised image captioning approaches have made great progress, but it is challenging to collect high-quality human-annotated image-text data. Recently, large-scale vision and language models (e.g., CLIP) and large-scale generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yiyu Wang , Hao Luo , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Fan Wang