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Recent advancements in image captioning have explored text-only training methods to overcome the limitations of paired image-text data. However, existing text-only training methods often overlook the modality gap between using text data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Soeun Lee , Si-Woo Kim , Taewhan Kim , Dong-Jin 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

Zero-shot video captioning requires that a model generate high-quality captions without human-annotated video-text pairs for training. State-of-the-art approaches to the problem leverage CLIP to extract visual-relevant textual prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Mingkai Tian , Guorong Li , Yuankai Qi , Amin Beheshti , Javen Qinfeng Shi , Anton van den Hengel , Qingming Huang

Image captioning has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However, little work has been done for game image captioning which has some unique characteristics and requirements. In this work we propose a novel game image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jian Zheng , Sudha Krishnamurthy , Ruxin Chen , Min-Hung Chen , Zhenhao Ge , Xiaohua Li

One of the ways blind people understand their surroundings is by clicking images and relying on descriptions generated by image captioning systems. Current work on captioning images for the visually impaired do not use the textual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hiba Ahsan , Nikita Bhalla , Daivat Bhatt , Kaivankumar Shah

The evaluation of machine-generated image captions poses an interesting yet persistent challenge. Effective evaluation measures must consider numerous dimensions of similarity, including semantic relevance, visual structure, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Chan , Suzanne Petryk , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , John Canny

It is highly desirable yet challenging to generate image captions that can describe novel objects which are unseen in caption-labeled training data, a capability that is evaluated in the novel object captioning challenge (nocaps). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaowei Hu , Xi Yin , Kevin Lin , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Zicheng Liu

Existing approaches to image captioning usually generate the sentence word-by-word from left to right, with the constraint of conditioned on local context including the given image and history generated words. There have been many studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhengcong Fei , Junshi Huang , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei

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 a challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate a natural language description of an image. Most recent researches follow the encoder-decoder framework which depends heavily on the previous generated words for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou , Zhendong Mao , Jianlong Tan

Dataset bias in vision-language tasks is becoming one of the main problems which hinders the progress of our community. Existing solutions lack a principled analysis about why modern image captioners easily collapse into dataset bias. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xu Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Jianfei Cai

Cross-Domain Image Retrieval (CDIR) is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match images across different visual domains such as sketches, paintings, and photographs. Existing CDIR methods rely either on supervised learning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lucas Iijima , Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of taking as input an image and a free-form natural language question about the image, and producing an accurate answer. In this work we view VQA as a "feature extraction" module to extract image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

Recently it has shown that the policy-gradient methods for reinforcement learning have been utilized to train deep end-to-end systems on natural language processing tasks. What's more, with the complexity of understanding image content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Haichao Shi , Peng Li , Bo Wang , Zhenyu Wang

The existing image captioning approaches typically train a one-stage sentence decoder, which is difficult to generate rich fine-grained descriptions. On the other hand, multi-stage image caption model is hard to train due to the vanishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Jiuxiang Gu , Jianfei Cai , Gang Wang , Tsuhan Chen

It has been a longstanding goal within image captioning to move beyond a dependence on object detection. We investigate using superpixels coupled with Vision Language Models (VLMs) to bridge the gap between detector-based captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Henry Senior , Luca Rossi , Gregory Slabaugh , Shanxin Yuan

Recent works in image captioning have shown very promising raw performance. However, we realize that most of these encoder-decoder style networks with attention do not scale naturally to large vocabulary size, making them difficult to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jia Huei Tan , Chee Seng Chan , Joon Huang Chuah

Image captioning has long been regarded as a fundamental task in visual understanding. Recently, however, few large vision-language model (LVLM) research discusses model's image captioning performance because of the outdated short-caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hongyuan Dong , Jiawen Li , Bohong Wu , Jiacong Wang , Yuan Zhang , Haoyuan Guo

Image captioning models often suffer from performance degradation when applied to novel datasets, as they are typically trained on domain-specific data. To enhance generalization in out-of-domain scenarios, retrieval-augmented approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hao Wu , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving images matching a reference image augmented with a text, where the text describes changes to the reference image in natural language. Traditionally, models designed for CIR have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiqun Duan , Sameera Ramasinghe , Stephen Gould , Ajanthan Thalaiyasingam