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Benefiting from advances in machine vision and natural language processing techniques, current image captioning systems are able to generate detailed visual descriptions. For the most part, these descriptions represent an objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

Generating natural language descriptions of images is an important capability for a robot or other visual-intelligence driven AI agent that may need to communicate with human users about what it is seeing. Such image captioning methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Li Zhang , Flood Sung , Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Shaogang Gong , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales

Attention mechanisms have recently been introduced in deep learning for various tasks in natural language processing and computer vision. But despite their popularity, the "correctness" of the implicitly-learned attention maps has only been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chenxi Liu , Junhua Mao , Fei Sha , Alan Yuille

Deep generative models have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. However, current text-to-image models often generate images that are inadequately aligned with text prompts. We propose a fine-tuning method for aligning such…

Recent advances in using retrieval components over external knowledge sources have shown impressive results for a variety of downstream tasks in natural language processing. Here, we explore the use of unstructured external knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Shir Gur , Natalia Neverova , Chris Stauffer , Ser-Nam Lim , Douwe Kiela , Austin Reiter

Image captioning models generally lack the capability to take into account user interest, and usually default to global descriptions that try to balance readability, informativeness, and information overload. On the other hand, VQA models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Edwin G. Ng , Bo Pang , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

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

Image captioning is a multimodal task involving computer vision and natural language processing, where the goal is to learn a mapping from the image to its natural language description. In general, the mapping function is learned from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jiuxiang Gu , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai , Gang Wang

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

Although pre-trained language models encode generic knowledge beneficial for planning and control, they may fail to generate appropriate control policies for domain-specific tasks. Existing fine-tuning methods use human feedback to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yunhao Yang , Neel P. Bhatt , Tyler Ingebrand , William Ward , Steven Carr , Zhangyang Wang , Ufuk Topcu

Image captioning models aim at connecting Vision and Language by providing natural language descriptions of input images. In the past few years, the task has been tackled by learning parametric models and proposing visual feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning models are becoming increasingly successful at describing the content of images in restricted domains. However, if these models are to function in the wild - for example, as assistants for people with impaired vision - a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Peter Anderson , Stephen Gould , Mark Johnson

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

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

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

Automatic captioning of images is a task that combines the challenges of image analysis and text generation. One important aspect in captioning is the notion of attention: How to decide what to describe and in which order. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sen He , Wentong Liao , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Michael Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn , Nicolas Pugeault

Foundation language models learn from their finetuning input context in different ways. In this paper, we reformulate inputs during finetuning for challenging translation tasks, leveraging model strengths from pretraining in novel ways to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brian Yu , Hansen Lillemark , Kurt Keutzer

Most image captioning frameworks generate captions directly from images, learning a mapping from visual features to natural language. However, editing existing captions can be easier than generating new ones from scratch. Intuitively, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Fawaz Sammani , Luke Melas-Kyriazi

Image captioning is a task in the field of Artificial Intelligence that merges between computer vision and natural language processing. It is responsible for generating legends that describe images, and has various applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ahmed Elhagry , Karima Kadaoui

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