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With the huge expansion of internet and trillions of gigabytes of data generated every single day, the needs for the development of various tools has become mandatory in order to maintain system adaptability to rapid changes. One of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Borneel Bikash Phukan , Amiya Ranjan Panda

The increasing realism of AI-generated images has raised serious concerns about misinformation and privacy violations, highlighting the urgent need for accurate and interpretable detection methods. While existing approaches have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tai-Ming Huang , Wei-Tung Lin , Kai-Lung Hua , Wen-Huang Cheng , Junichi Yamagishi , Jun-Cheng Chen

Image captioning is an important but challenging task, applicable to virtual assistants, editing tools, image indexing, and support of the disabled. Its challenges are due to the variability and ambiguity of possible image descriptions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jyoti Aneja , Aditya Deshpande , Alexander Schwing

Despite the groundbreaking advancements made by large language models (LLMs), hallucination remains a critical bottleneck for their deployment in high-stakes domains. Existing classification-based methods mainly rely on static and passive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Linggang Kong , Lei Wu , Yunlong Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhong , Zhen Wang , Yongjie Wang , Yao Pan

Visual captioning aims to generate textual descriptions given images or videos. Traditionally, image captioning models are trained on human annotated datasets such as Flickr30k and MS-COCO, which are limited in size and diversity. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Marimuthu Kalimuthu , Aditya Mogadala , Marius Mosbach , Dietrich Klakow

Despite the substantial progress in recent years, the image captioning techniques are still far from being perfect.Sentences produced by existing methods, e.g. those based on RNNs, are often overly rigid and lacking in variability. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Bo Dai , Sanja Fidler , Raquel Urtasun , Dahua Lin

Creating high-quality and realistic images is now possible thanks to the impressive advancements in image generation. A description in natural language of your desired output is all you need to obtain breathtaking results. However, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Giuseppe Cartella , Vittorio Cuculo , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning is an important task for benchmarking visual reasoning and for enabling accessibility for people with vision impairments. However, as in many machine learning settings, social biases can influence image captioning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Dora Zhao , Angelina Wang , Olga Russakovsky

Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle to generate accurate and detailed captions for high-resolution images since they are typically pre-trained on low-resolution inputs (e.g., 224x224 or 336x336 pixels). Downscaling high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Hankyeol Lee , Gawon Seo , Kyounggyu Lee , Dogun Kim , Kyungwoo Song , Jiyoung Jung

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Automatically captioning images with natural language sentences is an important research topic. State of the art models are able to produce human-like sentences. These models typically describe the depicted scene as a whole and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Stephan Brehm , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

In this work, we address the real-world, challenging task of out-of-context misinformation detection, where a real image is paired with an incorrect caption for creating fake news. Existing approaches for this task assume the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Devank , Jayateja Kalla , Soma Biswas

Automatically generating a natural language description of an image has attracted interests recently both because of its importance in practical applications and because it connects two major artificial intelligence fields: computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Quanzeng You , Hailin Jin , Zhaowen Wang , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

Image caption rating is becoming increasingly important because computer-generated captions are used extensively for descriptive annotation. However, rating the accuracy of captions in describing images is time-consuming and subjective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Kezia Minni , Qiang Zhang , Monoshiz Mahbub Khan , Zhe Yu

This study explores the ability of Image Captioning (IC) models to decode masked visual content sourced from diverse datasets. Our findings reveal the IC model's capability to generate captions from masked images, closely resembling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhicheng Du , Zhaotian Xie , Huazhang Ying , Likun Zhang , Peiwu Qin

Language and vision are processed as two different modal in current work for image captioning. However, recent work on Super Characters method shows the effectiveness of two-dimensional word embedding, which converts text classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Baohua Sun , Lin Yang , Michael Lin , Charles Young , Patrick Dong , Wenhan Zhang , Jason Dong

Counterfactual thinking is a crucial yet challenging topic for artificial intelligence to learn knowledge from data and ultimately improve performance for new scenarios. Many research works, including the Potential Outcome Model (POM) and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingyu Kang , Duxin Chen , Ziyuan Pu , Jianxi Gao , Wenwu Yu

Every day, the human brain processes an immense volume of visual information, relying on intricate neural mechanisms to perceive and interpret these stimuli. Recent breakthroughs in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Matteo Ferrante , Furkan Ozcelik , Tommaso Boccato , Rufin VanRullen , Nicola Toschi

Recent advancements in pre-trained large-scale language-image models have ushered in a new era of visual comprehension, offering a significant leap forward. These breakthroughs have proven particularly instrumental in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yiran Li , Junpeng Wang , Prince Aboagye , Michael Yeh , Yan Zheng , Liang Wang , Wei Zhang , Kwan-Liu Ma

Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li