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Understanding how two radiology image sets differ is critical for generating clinical insights and for interpreting medical AI systems. We introduce RadDiff, a multimodal agentic system that performs radiologist-style comparative reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaoxian Shen , Yuhui Zhang , Sahithi Ankireddy , Xiaohan Wang , Maya Varma , Henry Guo , Curtis Langlotz , Serena Yeung-Levy

In this paper, we investigate a novel problem of telling the difference between image pairs in natural language. Compared to previous approaches for single image captioning, it is challenging to fetch linguistic representation from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Shuangjie Xu , Feng Xu , Yu Cheng , Pan Zhou

In computer vision, Image Difference Captioning (IDC) is crucial for accurately describing variations between closely related images. Traditional IDC methods often rely on specialist models, which restrict their applicability across varied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Erdong Hu , Longteng Guo , Tongtian Yue , Zijia Zhao , Shuning Xue , Jing Liu

In this paper, we introduce the task of automatically generating text to describe the differences between two similar images. We collect a new dataset by crowd-sourcing difference descriptions for pairs of image frames extracted from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Harsh Jhamtani , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

We investigate the problem of identifying objects that have been added, removed, or moved between a pair of captures (images or videos) of the same scene at different times. Accurately identifying verifiable changes is extremely challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuqun Wu , Chih-hao Lin , Henry Che , Aditi Tiwari , Chuhang Zou , Shenlong Wang , Derek Hoiem

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) generates natural language descriptions that precisely identify differences between two images, serving as a key benchmark for fine-grained change perception, cross-modal reasoning, and image editing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yuancheng Wei , Haojie Zhang , Linli Yao , Lei Li , Jiali Chen , Tao Huang , Yiting Lu , Duojun Huang , Xin Li , Zhao Zhong

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) aims to generate natural language descriptions of subtle differences between image pairs, requiring both precise visual change localization and coherent semantic expression. Despite recent advancements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yuan Liu , Saihui Hou , Saijie Hou , Jiabao Du , Shibei Meng , Yongzhen Huang

Image captioning models are usually trained according to human annotated ground-truth captions, which could generate accurate but generic captions. In this paper, we focus on generating distinctive captions that can distinguish the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Youyuan Zhang , Jiuniu Wang , Hao Wu , Wenjia Xu

One major challenge in machine learning applications is coping with mismatches between the datasets used in the development and those obtained in real-world applications. These mismatches may lead to inaccurate predictions and errors,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-01 Keisuke Kawano , Takuro Kutsuna , Ryoko Tokuhisa , Akihiro Nakamura , Yasushi Esaki

We present LatentDiff, a scalable framework for semantic dataset comparison that operates directly in the latent space of pretrained vision encoders. By combining sparse autoencoder-based divergence testing with density ratio estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 James Flora , Kowshik Thopalli , Akshay R. Kulkarni , Weng-Keen Wong , Shusen Liu

The Image Difference Captioning (IDC) task aims to describe the visual differences between two similar images with natural language. The major challenges of this task lie in two aspects: 1) fine-grained visual differences that require…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Linli Yao , Weiying Wang , Qin Jin

Recent advances in language and vision push forward the research of captioning a single image to describing visual differences between image pairs. Suppose there are two images, I_1 and I_2, and the task is to generate a description W_{1,2}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 An Yan , Xin Eric Wang , Tsu-Jui Fu , William Yang Wang

When we experience a visual stimulus as beautiful, how much of that experience derives from perceptual computations we cannot describe versus conceptual knowledge we can readily translate into natural language? Disentangling perception from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Colin Conwell , Christopher Hamblin , Chelsea Boccagno , David Mayo , Jesse Cummings , Leyla Isik , Andrei Barbu

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

Neural captioners are typically trained to mimic human-generated references without optimizing for any specific communication goal, leading to problems such as the generation of vague captions. In this paper, we show that fine-tuning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Roberto Dessì , Michele Bevilacqua , Eleonora Gualdoni , Nathanael Carraz Rakotonirina , Francesca Franzon , Marco Baroni

Fine-grained understanding of objects, attributes, and relationships between objects is crucial for visual-language models (VLMs). Existing benchmarks primarily focus on evaluating VLMs' capability to distinguish between two very similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Rabiul Awal , Saba Ahmadi , Le Zhang , Aishwarya Agrawal

Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi

In this paper, we investigate when and how visual representations learned by two different generative models diverge. Given two text-to-image models, our goal is to discover visual attributes that appear in images generated by one model but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lisa Dunlap , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

Recent advancements in diffusion models have enabled the generation of realistic deepfakes from textual prompts in natural language. While these models have numerous benefits across various sectors, they have also raised concerns about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Roberto Amoroso , Davide Morelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alberto Del Bimbo , Rita Cucchiara

Understanding visual differences between dynamic scenes requires the comparative perception of compositional, spatial, and temporal changes--a capability that remains underexplored in existing vision-language systems. While prior work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiangtao Wu , Shihao Li , Zhaozhou Bian , Jialu Chen , Runzhe Wen , An Ping , Yiwen He , Jiakai Wang , Yuanxing Zhang , Jiaheng Liu
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