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Connecting Vision and Language plays an essential role in Generative Intelligence. For this reason, large research efforts have been devoted to image captioning, i.e. describing images with syntactically and semantically meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Silvia Cascianelli , Giuseppe Fiameni , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning, a popular topic in computer vision, has achieved substantial progress in recent years. However, the distinctiveness of natural descriptions is often overlooked in previous work. It is closely related to the quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Visual Storytelling is a challenging multimodal task between Vision & Language, where the purpose is to generate a story for a stream of images. Its difficulty lies on the fact that the story should be both grounded to the image sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Admitos Passadakis , Yingjin Song , Albert Gatt

State-of-the-art approaches for image captioning require supervised training data consisting of captions with paired image data. These methods are typically unable to use unsupervised data such as textual data with no corresponding images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Wenhu Chen , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

The aim of image captioning is to generate captions by machine to describe image contents. Despite many efforts, generating discriminative captions for images remains non-trivial. Most traditional approaches imitate the language structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Xihui Liu , Hongsheng Li , Jing Shao , Dapeng Chen , Xiaogang Wang

Image captioning is the process of automatically generating a description of an image in natural language. Image captioning is one of the significant challenges in image understanding since it requires not only recognizing salient objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ghadah Alabduljabbar , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

In the era of evolving artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly emulating human-like capabilities, including visual perception and linguistic expression. Image captioning stands at the intersection of these domains, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Hrishikesh Singh , Aarti Sharma , Millie Pant

Generating a description of an image is called image captioning. Image captioning requires to recognize the important objects, their attributes and their relationships in an image. It also needs to generate syntactically and semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Md. Zakir Hossain , Ferdous Sohel , Mohd Fairuz Shiratuddin , Hamid Laga

Image captioning remains a fundamental task for vision language understanding, yet ground-truth supervision still relies predominantly on human-annotated references. Because human annotations reflect subjective preferences and expertise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhijiang Tang , Linhua Wang , Jiaxin Qi , Weihao Jiang , Peng Hou , Anxiang Zeng , Jianqiang Huang

Image captioning implies automatically generating textual descriptions of images based only on the visual input. Although this has been an extensively addressed research topic in recent years, not many contributions have been made in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Eva Cetinic

The task of image captioning aims to generate captions directly from images via the automatically learned cross-modal generator. To build a well-performing generator, existing approaches usually need a large number of described images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yang Yang , Hongchen Wei , Hengshu Zhu , Dianhai Yu , Hui Xiong , Jian Yang

The recent progress on image recognition and language modeling is making automatic description of image content a reality. However, stylized, non-factual aspects of the written description are missing from the current systems. One such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Alexander Mathews , Lexing Xie , Xuming He

We study how to generate captions that are not only accurate in describing an image but also discriminative across different images. The problem is both fundamental and interesting, as most machine-generated captions, despite phenomenal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dianqi Li , Qiuyuan Huang , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun

Automatic image captioning has recently approached human-level performance due to the latest advances in computer vision and natural language understanding. However, most of the current models can only generate plain factual descriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Quanzeng You , Hailin Jin , Jiebo Luo

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence, the exploration of hallucinations within vision-language (VL) models emerges as a critical frontier. This work delves into the intricacies of hallucinatory phenomena exhibited by widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Angeliki Dimitriou , Athanasios Voulodimos , Giorgos Stamou

Given an image, generating its natural language description (i.e., caption) is a well studied problem. Approaches proposed to address this problem usually rely on image features that are difficult to interpret. Particularly, these image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Aditya Mogadala , Xiaoyu Shen , Dietrich Klakow

Image Captioning is a task that requires models to acquire a multi-modal understanding of the world and to express this understanding in natural language text. While the state-of-the-art for this task has rapidly improved in terms of n-gram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Annika Lindh , Robert J. Ross , Abhijit Mahalunkar , Giancarlo Salton , John D. Kelleher

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 traditional image captioning task uses generic reference captions to provide textual information about images. Different user populations, however, will care about different visual aspects of images. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Adam Fisch , Kenton Lee , Ming-Wei Chang , Jonathan H. Clark , Regina Barzilay