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Controllable image semantic understanding tasks, such as captioning or segmentation, necessitate users to input a prompt (e.g., text or bounding boxes) to predict a unique outcome, presenting challenges such as high-cost prompt input or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xu Zhang , Jin Yuan , Hanwang Zhang , Guojin Zhong , Yongsheng Zang , Jiacheng Lin , Zhiyong Li

Video captioning targets interpreting the complex visual contents as text descriptions, which requires the model to fully understand video scenes including objects and their interactions. Prevailing methods adopt off-the-shelf object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hao Wang , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

The recent advances of deep learning in both computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) provide us a new way of understanding semantics, by which we can deal with more challenging tasks such as automatic description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Daouda Sow , Zengchang Qin , Mouhamed Niasse , Tao Wan

Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

The semantic gap is defined as the difference between the linguistic representations of the same concept, which usually leads to misunderstanding between individuals with different knowledge backgrounds. Since linguistically annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xiaolei Diao

Automatic captioning of images is a task that combines the challenges of image analysis and text generation. One important aspect in captioning is the notion of attention: How to decide what to describe and in which order. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sen He , Wentong Liao , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Michael Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn , Nicolas Pugeault

Recently, the attention-enriched encoder-decoder framework has aroused great interest in image captioning due to its overwhelming progress. Many visual attention models directly leverage meaningful regions to generate image descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz , Shahabedin Nabavi , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Mehrnoush Shamsfard

This paper describes our winning entry in the ImageCLEF 2015 image sentence generation task. We improve Google's CNN-LSTM model by introducing concept-based sentence reranking, a data-driven approach which exploits the large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Xirong Li , Qin Jin

Existing image captioning methods just focus on understanding the relationship between objects or instances in a single image, without exploring the contextual correlation existed among contextual image. In this paper, we propose Dual Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Xinzhi Dong , Chengjiang Long , Wenju Xu , Chunxia Xiao

Semantic image synthesis aims at generating photorealistic images from semantic layouts. Previous approaches with conditional generative adversarial networks (GAN) show state-of-the-art performance on this task, which either feed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Xihui Liu , Guojun Yin , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

With the maturity of visual detection techniques, we are more ambitious in describing visual content with open-vocabulary, fine-grained and free-form language, i.e., the task of image captioning. In particular, we are interested in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zheng-Jun Zha , Daqing Liu , Hanwang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Feng Wu

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, establish the correlation between texts and images, achieving remarkable success on various downstream tasks with fine-tuning. In existing fine-tuning methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

Numerous embedding models have been recently explored to incorporate semantic knowledge into visual recognition. Existing methods typically focus on minimizing the distance between the corresponding images and texts in the embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Dong Li , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Two modalities are often used to convey information in a complementary and beneficial manner, e.g., in online news, videos, educational resources, or scientific publications. The automatic understanding of semantic correlations between text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Christian Otto , Matthias Springstein , Avishek Anand , Ralph Ewerth

We propose a computationally efficient and high-performance classification algorithm by incorporating class structural information in analysis dictionary learning. To achieve more consistent classification, we associate a class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Wen Tang , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim , Liyi Dai

In this paper we explore the bi-directional mapping between images and their sentence-based descriptions. We propose learning this mapping using a recurrent neural network. Unlike previous approaches that map both sentences and images to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Xinlei Chen , C. Lawrence Zitnick

Image captioning model is a cross-modality knowledge discovery task, which targets at automatically describing an image with an informative and coherent sentence. To generate the captions, the previous encoder-decoder frameworks directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ziwei Wang , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Image captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions for input images in an open-form manner. To accurately generate descriptions related to the image, a critical step in image captioning is to identify objects and understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jinjing Gu , Tianbao Qin , Yuanyuan Pu , Zhengpeng Zhao

While recent deep neural network models have achieved promising results on the image captioning task, they rely largely on the availability of corpora with paired image and sentence captions to describe objects in context. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Subhashini Venugopalan , Marcus Rohrbach , Raymond Mooney , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell