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Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi

Most current captioning systems use language models trained on data from specific settings, such as image-based captioning via Amazon Mechanical Turk, limiting their ability to generalize to other modality distributions and contexts. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ariel Shaulov , Tal Shaharabany , Eitan Shaar , Gal Chechik , Lior Wolf

The encode-decoder framework has shown recent success in image captioning. Visual attention, which is good at detailedness, and semantic attention, which is good at comprehensiveness, have been separately proposed to ground the caption on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Fenglin Liu , Xuancheng Ren , Yuanxin Liu , Houfeng Wang , Xu Sun

Automatically describing video, or video captioning, has been widely studied in the multimedia field. This paper proposes a new task of sensor-augmented egocentric-video captioning, a newly constructed dataset for it called MMAC Captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Katsuyuki Nakamura , Hiroki Ohashi , Mitsuhiro Okada

Image captioning is a challenging task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, requiring models to generate meaningful textual descriptions of images. Traditional approaches rely on recurrent neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Hemanth Teja Yanambakkam , Rahul Chinthala

We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

Supervised image captioning approaches have made great progress, but it is challenging to collect high-quality human-annotated image-text data. Recently, large-scale vision and language models (e.g., CLIP) and large-scale generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yiyu Wang , Hao Luo , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Fan Wang

Automated image captioning is one of the applications of Deep Learning which involves fusion of work done in computer vision and natural language processing, and it is typically performed using Encoder-Decoder architectures. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Aditya Bhattacharya , Eshwar Shamanna Girishekar , Padmakar Anil Deshpande

Recent speech language models (SLMs) typically incorporate pre-trained speech models to extend the capabilities from large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we propose a Descriptive Speech-Text Alignment approach that leverages speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Ke-Han Lu , Zhehuai Chen , Szu-Wei Fu , He Huang , Boris Ginsburg , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Hung-yi Lee

Generating multi-sentence descriptions for videos is one of the most challenging captioning tasks due to its high requirements for not only visual relevance but also discourse-based coherence across the sentences in the paragraph. Towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Jie Lei , Liwei Wang , Yelong Shen , Dong Yu , Tamara L. Berg , Mohit Bansal

In recent years, transformer structures have been widely applied in image captioning with impressive performance. For good captioning results, the geometry and position relations of different visual objects are often thought of as crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Chi Wang , Yulin Shen , Luping Ji

Inspired by how the human brain employs a higher number of neural pathways when describing a highly focused subject, we show that deep attentive models used for the main vision-language task of image captioning, could be extended to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zanyar Zohourianshahzadi , Jugal K. Kalita

Text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress in high-quality image synthesis, yet most benchmarks rely on simple, self-contained prompts, failing to capture the complexity of real-world captions. Human-written captions often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan , Sharon X. Huang , Dongwon Lee

Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have enabled remarkable image understanding and generation capabilities. However, while models like Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image show emerging abilities to reason over multiple related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingrui Wu , Hang Liu , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

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

Training Large Multimodality Models (LMMs) relies on descriptive image caption that connects image and language. Existing methods for generating such captions often rely on distilling the captions from pretrained LMMs, constructing them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yanpeng Sun , Jing Hao , Ke Zhu , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Yuxiang Zhao , Xiaofan Li , Na Zhao , Zechao Li , Jingdong Wang

Automatically creating the description of an image using any natural languages sentence like English is a very challenging task. It requires expertise of both image processing as well as natural language processing. This paper discuss about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Parth Shah , Vishvajit Bakarola , Supriya Pati

With the advent of rich visual representations and pre-trained language models, video captioning has seen continuous improvement over time. Despite the performance improvement, video captioning models are prone to hallucination.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Nasib Ullah , Partha Pratim Mohanta

Visual attention has been successfully applied in structural prediction tasks such as visual captioning and question answering. Existing visual attention models are generally spatial, i.e., the attention is modeled as spatial probabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Long Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Xiao , Liqiang Nie , Jian Shao , Wei Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

Self-attention (SA) network has shown profound value in image captioning. In this paper, we improve SA from two aspects to promote the performance of image captioning. First, we propose Normalized Self-Attention (NSA), a reparameterization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Longteng Guo , Jing Liu , Xinxin Zhu , Peng Yao , Shichen Lu , Hanqing Lu