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Image captioning requires numerous annotated image-text pairs, resulting in substantial annotation costs. Recently, large models (e.g. diffusion models and large language models) have excelled in producing high-quality images and text. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Feipeng Ma , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

Image captioning has drawn considerable attention from the natural language processing and computer vision fields. Aiming to reduce the reliance on curated data, several studies have explored image captioning without any humanly-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Rui Fonseca , Bruno Martins , Gil Rocha

Text to Image Synthesis refers to the process of automatic generation of a photo-realistic image starting from a given text and is revolutionizing many real-world applications. In order to perform such process it is necessary to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Marco Menardi , Alex Falcon , Saida S. Mohamed , Lorenzo Seidenari , Giuseppe Serra , Alberto Del Bimbo , Carlo Tasso

Training data is at the core of any successful text-to-image models. The quality and descriptiveness of image text are crucial to a model's performance. Given the noisiness and inconsistency in web-scraped datasets, recent works shifted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Manuel Brack , Sudeep Katakol , Felix Friedrich , Patrick Schramowski , Hareesh Ravi , Kristian Kersting , Ajinkya Kale

Although image captioning models have made significant advancements in recent years, the majority of them heavily depend on high-quality datasets containing paired images and texts which are costly to acquire. Previous works leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhiyue Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Fanrong Ma

Recent text-to-image matching models apply contrastive learning to large corpora of uncurated pairs of images and sentences. While such models can provide a powerful score for matching and subsequent zero-shot tasks, they are not capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yoad Tewel , Yoav Shalev , Idan Schwartz , Lior Wolf

State-of-The-Art (SoTA) image captioning models are often trained on the MicroSoft Common Objects in Context (MS-COCO) dataset, which contains human-annotated captions with an average length of approximately ten tokens. Although effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Marco Donzella , Paolo Napoletano

In this paper we present the first model for directly synthesizing fluent, natural-sounding spoken audio captions for images that does not require natural language text as an intermediate representation or source of supervision. Instead, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Wei-Ning Hsu , David Harwath , Christopher Song , James Glass

We consider the task of image-captioning using only the CLIP model and additional text data at training time, and no additional captioned images. Our approach relies on the fact that CLIP is trained to make visual and textual embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David Nukrai , Ron Mokady , Amir Globerson

Customization of text-to-image models enables users to insert new concepts or objects and generate them in unseen settings. Existing methods either rely on comparatively expensive test-time optimization or train encoders on single-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nupur Kumari , Xi Yin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Ishan Misra , Samaneh Azadi

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated an astonishing capacity to generate high-quality images. However, researchers mainly studied the way of synthesizing images with only text prompts. While some works have explored using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jinheng Xie , Yuexiang Li , Yawen Huang , Haozhe Liu , Wentian Zhang , Yefeng Zheng , Mike Zheng Shou

Text-based image captioning (TextCap) which aims to read and reason images with texts is crucial for a machine to understand a detailed and complex scene environment, considering that texts are omnipresent in daily life. This task, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Guanghui Xu , Shuaicheng Niu , Mingkui Tan , Yucheng Luo , Qing Du , Qi Wu

Image captioning aims at generating descriptive and meaningful textual descriptions of images, enabling a broad range of vision-language applications. Prior works have demonstrated that harnessing the power of Contrastive Image Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Longtian Qiu , Shan Ning , Xuming He

Text-to-image synthesis is the task of generating images from text descriptions. Image generation, by itself, is a challenging task. When we combine image generation and text, we bring complexity to a new level: we need to combine data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Douglas M. Souza , Jônatas Wehrmann , Duncan D. Ruiz

Image tokenization, the process of transforming raw image pixels into a compact low-dimensional latent representation, has proven crucial for scalable and efficient image generation. However, mainstream image tokenization methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kaiwen Zha , Lijun Yu , Alireza Fathi , David A. Ross , Cordelia Schmid , Dina Katabi , Xiuye Gu

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have reached an unprecedented level in generating high-quality images. However, their exclusive reliance on textual prompts often falls short in precise control of image compositions. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Peiang Zhao , Han Li , Ruiyang Jin , S. Kevin Zhou

This paper addresses the task of generating fluent descriptions by training on a non-uniform combination of data sources, containing both human-annotated and web-collected captions. Large-scale datasets with noisy image-text pairs, indeed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Fiameni , Rita Cucchiara

Accurate interpretation and visual representation of complex prompts involving multiple objects, attributes, and spatial relationships is a critical challenge in text-to-image synthesis. Despite recent advancements in generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hirunima Jayasekara , Chuong Huynh , Yixuan Ren , Christabel Acquaye , Abhinav Shrivastava

This paper establishes a formal information-theoretic framework for image captioning, conceptualizing captions as compressed linguistic representations that selectively encode semantic units in images. Our framework posits that good image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Delong Chen , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Etsuko Ishii , Ho Shu Chan , Yejin Bang , Pascale Fung

Recent advancements in the domain of text-to-image synthesis have culminated in a multitude of enhancements pertaining to quality, fidelity, and diversity. Contemporary techniques enable the generation of highly intricate visuals which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Dominic Rampas , Pablo Pernias , Marc Aubreville
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