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Novel object captioning (NOC) aims to describe images containing objects without observing their ground truth captions during training. Due to the absence of caption annotation, captioning models cannot be directly optimized via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Cheng-Fu Yang , Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Wan-Cyuan Fan , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Generating natural language descriptions of images is an important capability for a robot or other visual-intelligence driven AI agent that may need to communicate with human users about what it is seeing. Such image captioning methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Li Zhang , Flood Sung , Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Image captioning is shown to be able to achieve a better performance by using scene graphs to represent the relations of objects in the image. The current captioning encoders generally use a Graph Convolutional Net (GCN) to represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Xuewen Yang , Yingru Liu , Xin Wang

Zero-shot image captioning (IC) without well-paired image-text data can be divided into two categories, training-free and text-only-training. Generally, these two types of methods realize zero-shot IC by integrating pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zequn Zeng , Yan Xie , Hao Zhang , Chiyu Chen , Zhengjue Wang , Bo Chen

Remote sensing change captioning (RSICC) aims to describe changes between bitemporal images in natural language. Existing methods often fail under challenges like illumination differences, viewpoint changes, blur effects, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ali Can Karaca , M. Enes Ozelbas , Saadettin Berber , Orkhan Karimli , Turabi Yildirim , M. Fatih Amasyali

Despite significant progress in image captioning, generating accurate and descriptive captions remains a long-standing challenge. In this study, we propose Attention-Guided Image Captioning (AGIC), which amplifies salient visual regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 L. D. M. S. Sai Teja , Ashok Urlana , Pruthwik Mishra

Software testing is often hindered where it is impossible or impractical to determine the correctness of the behaviour or output of the software under test (SUT), a situation known as the oracle problem. An example of an area facing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Liming Xu , Dave Towey , Andrew French , Steve Benford , Zhi Quan Zhou , Tsong Yueh Chen

While advanced image captioning systems are increasingly describing images coherently and exactly, recent progress in continual learning allows deep learning models to avoid catastrophic forgetting. However, the domain where image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Giang Nguyen , Tae Joon Jun , Trung Tran , Tolcha Yalew , Daeyoung Kim

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

Pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP have recently shown superior performances on various downstream tasks, including image classification and segmentation. However, in fine-grained image re-identification (ReID), the labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Siyuan Li , Li Sun , Qingli Li

Image captioning is a research area of immense importance, aiming to generate natural language descriptions for visual content in the form of still images. The advent of deep learning and more recently vision-language pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Pourreza , Hamidreza Mahyar

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

The existing methods for Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning (RSICC) perform well in simple scenes but exhibit poorer performance in complex scenes. This limitation is primarily attributed to the model's constrained visual ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Chenyang Liu , Keyan Chen , Zipeng Qi , Haotian Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

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

The core objective of image captioning is to achieve lossless semantic compression from visual signals into textual modalities. However, the reliance on manually curated reference texts for evaluation essentially forces models to mimic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ziyun Chen , Fan Liu , Liang Yao , Chuanyi Zhang , Yuye Ma , Wei Zhou

Image Captioning is a task that combines computer vision and natural language processing, where it aims to generate descriptive legends for images. It is a two-fold process relying on accurate image understanding and correct language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ahmed Elhagry , Karima Kadaoui

Image captioning (IC) refers to the automatic generation of natural language descriptions for images, with applications ranging from social media content generation to assisting individuals with visual impairments. While most research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Gabriel Bromonschenkel , Alessandro L. Koerich , Thiago M. Paixão , Hilário Tomaz Alves de Oliveira

This paper presents ViTOC (Vision Transformer and Object-aware Captioner), a novel vision-language model for image captioning that addresses the challenges of accuracy and diversity in generated descriptions. Unlike conventional approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Feiyang Huang

Despite the success of various text generation metrics such as BERTScore, it is still difficult to evaluate the image captions without enough reference captions due to the diversity of the descriptions. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hwanhee Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Franck Dernoncourt , Trung Bui , Kyomin Jung

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