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The conventional training approach for image captioning involves pre-training a network using teacher forcing and subsequent fine-tuning with Self-Critical Sequence Training to maximize hand-crafted captioning metrics. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Nicholas Moratelli , Davide Caffagni , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Image aesthetic quality assessment has been a relatively hot topic during the last decade. Most recently, comments type assessment (aesthetic captions) has been proposed to describe the general aesthetic impression of an image using text.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Xin Jin , Le Wu , Geng Zhao , Xiaodong Li , Xiaokun Zhang , Shiming Ge , Dongqing Zou , Bin Zhou , Xinghui Zhou

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

Scientific figure captions require both accuracy and stylistic consistency to convey visual information. Here, we present a domain-specific caption generation system for the 3rd SciCap Challenge that integrates figure-related textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Watcharapong Timklaypachara , Monrada Chiewhawan , Nopporn Lekuthai , Titipat Achakulvisut

Image captioning bridges the gap between vision and language by automatically generating natural language descriptions for images. Traditional image captioning methods often overlook the preferences and characteristics of users.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xuan Wang , Guanhong Wang , Wenhao Chai , Jiayu Zhou , Gaoang Wang

One of the problems with automated audio captioning (AAC) is the indeterminacy in word selection corresponding to the audio event/scene. Since one acoustic event/scene can be described with several words, it results in a combinatorial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Yuma Koizumi , Ryo Masumura , Kyosuke Nishida , Masahiro Yasuda , Shoichiro Saito

Few-shot learning aims to identify novel categories from only a handful of labeled samples, where prototypes estimated from scarce data are often biased and generalize poorly. Semantic-based methods alleviate this by introducing coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiaying Wu , Can Gao , Jinglu Hu , Hui Li , Xiaofeng Cao , Jingcai Guo

The task of image captioning aims to generate captions directly from images via the automatically learned cross-modal generator. To build a well-performing generator, existing approaches usually need a large number of described images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yang Yang , Hongchen Wei , Hengshu Zhu , Dianhai Yu , Hui Xiong , Jian Yang

Image captioning is an ambiguous problem, with many suitable captions for an image. To address ambiguity, beam search is the de facto method for sampling multiple captions. However, beam search is computationally expensive and known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Aditya Deshpande , Jyoti Aneja , Liwei Wang , Alexander Schwing , D. A. Forsyth

Image captioning is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, where the model predicts a textual informative caption to a given input image. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address this task. We use CLIP encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Amit H. Bermano

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

In the dataset of image captioning, each image is aligned with several descriptions. Despite the fact that the quality of these descriptions varies, existing captioning models treat them equally in the training process. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhangzi Zhu , Hong Qu

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

This project aims to create an automated image captioning system that generates natural language descriptions for input images by integrating techniques from computer vision and natural language processing. We employ various different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Joshua Adrian Cahyono , Jeremy Nathan Jusuf

Automatic description generation from natural images is a challenging problem that has recently received a large amount of interest from the computer vision and natural language processing communities. In this survey, we classify the…

Despite the fact that image captioning models have been able to generate impressive descriptions for a given image, challenges remain: (1) the controllability and diversity of existing models are still far from satisfactory; (2) models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Zhangzi Zhu , Tianlei Wang , Hong Qu

How reliably an automatic summarization evaluation metric replicates human judgments of summary quality is quantified by system-level correlations. We identify two ways in which the definition of the system-level correlation is inconsistent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Daniel Deutsch , Rotem Dror , Dan Roth

Generating detailed captions comprehending text-rich visual content in images has received growing attention for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). However, few studies have developed benchmarks specifically tailored for detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Fan Lu , Wei Wu , Kecheng Zheng , Shuailei Ma , Biao Gong , Jiawei Liu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Yujun Shen , Zheng-Jun Zha

Pretrained visual-language models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot abilities in image captioning, when accompanied by hand-crafted prompts. Meanwhile, hand-crafted prompts utilize human prior knowledge to guide the model. However, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hongchen Wei , Zhenzhong Chen

We propose a simple yet effective and robust method for contrastive captioning: generating discriminative captions that distinguish target images from very similar alternative distractor images. Our approach is built on a pragmatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiefu Ou , Benno Krojer , Daniel Fried