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Image captioning can automatically generate captions for the given images, and the key challenge is to learn a mapping function from visual features to natural language features. Existing approaches are mostly supervised ones, i.e., each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yang Yang

Image description task has been invariably examined in a static manner with qualitative presumptions held to be universally applicable, regardless of the scope or target of the description. In practice, however, different viewers may pay…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Image captioning attempts to generate a sentence composed of several linguistic words, which are used to describe objects, attributes, and interactions in an image, denoted as visual semantic units in this paper. Based on this view, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Longteng Guo , Jing Liu , Jinhui Tang , Jiangwei Li , Wei Luo , Hanqing Lu

Mainstream image caption models are usually two-stage captioners, i.e., calculating object features by pre-trained detector, and feeding them into a language model to generate text descriptions. However, such an operation will cause a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Bo Wang , Zhao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Xiaojie Jin , Mingliang Xu , Meng Wang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging image retrieval paradigm. It aims to retrieve target images from large-scale image databases that are consistent with the modification semantics, based on a multimodal query composed of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Mingyu Zhang , Zixu Li , Zhiwei Chen , Zhiheng Fu , Xiaowei Zhu , Jiajia Nie , Yinwei Wei , Yupeng Hu

The contemporary visual captioning models frequently hallucinate objects that are not actually in a scene, due to the visual misclassification or over-reliance on priors that resulting in the semantic inconsistency between the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Wenqiao Zhang , Haochen Shi , Siliang Tang , Jun Xiao , Qiang Yu , Yueting Zhuang

Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning (RSICC) aims to generate spatially grounded natural language descriptions of scene evolution from bi-temporal imagery, moving beyond binary change masks toward semantic-level understanding. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yupeng Gao , Tianyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang

Image captioning is the process of generating a natural language description of an image. Most current image captioning models, however, do not take into account the emotional aspect of an image, which is very relevant to activities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Peter Anderson , Len Hamey

Training vision models with language supervision enables general and transferable representations. However, many visual domains, especially non-object-centric domains such as medical imaging and remote sensing, contain itemized text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yiwei Lyu , Chenhui Zhao , Soumyanil Banerjee , Shixuan Liu , Akshay Rao , Akhil Kondepudi , Honglak Lee , Todd C. Hollon

Despite significant advancements in caption generation, existing evaluation metrics often fail to capture the full quality or fine-grained details of captions. This is mainly due to their reliance on non-specific human-written references or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sara Sarto , Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Observing a set of images and their corresponding paragraph-captions, a challenging task is to learn how to produce a semantically coherent paragraph to describe the visual content of an image. Inspired by recent successes in integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Dandan Guo , Ruiying Lu , Bo Chen , Zequn Zeng , Mingyuan Zhou

Image captioning has so far been explored mostly in English, as most available datasets are in this language. However, the application of image captioning should not be restricted by language. Only few studies have been conducted for image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Weiyu Lan , Xirong Li , Jianfeng Dong

Many vision-language tasks can be reduced to the problem of sequence prediction for natural language output. In particular, recent advances in image captioning use deep reinforcement learning (RL) to alleviate the "exposure bias" during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Daqing Liu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Hanwang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Feng Wu

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) has shown remarkable zero-shot transfer capabilities in cross-modal correlation tasks such as visual classification and image retrieval. However, its performance in cross-modal generation tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Junyang Wang , Yi Zhang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Jitao Sang

In this paper, we present an approach, namely Lexical Semantic Image Completion (LSIC), that may have potential applications in art, design, and heritage conservation, among several others. Existing image completion procedure is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Shengyu Zhang , Tan Jiang , Qinghao Huang , Ziqi Tan , Zhou Zhao , Siliang Tang , Jin Yu , Hongxia Yang , Yi Yang , Fei Wu

Image captioning models tend to describe images in an object-centric way, emphasising visible objects. But image descriptions can also abstract away from objects and describe the type of scene depicted. In this paper, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Michele Cafagna , Kees van Deemter , Albert Gatt

We present Pix2Cap-COCO, the first panoptic pixel-level caption dataset designed to advance fine-grained visual understanding. To achieve this, we carefully design an automated annotation pipeline that prompts GPT-4V to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zuyao You , Junke Wang , Lingyu Kong , Bo He , Zuxuan Wu

Automatically generating natural language descriptions from an image is a challenging problem in artificial intelligence that requires a good understanding of the visual and textual signals and the correlations between them. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Arushi Goel , Basura Fernando , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Hakan Bilen

Developers of text generation models rely on automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for slow and expensive manual evaluations. However, image captioning metrics have struggled to give accurate learned estimates of the semantic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mert İnan , Piyush Sharma , Baber Khalid , Radu Soricut , Matthew Stone , Malihe Alikhani

Having the difficulty of solving the semantic gap between images and texts for the image captioning task, conventional studies in this area paid some attention to treating semantic concepts as a bridge between the two modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ting Wang , Weidong Chen , Yuanhe Tian , Yan Song , Zhendong Mao