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There is considerable interest in the task of automatically generating image captions. However, evaluation is challenging. Existing automatic evaluation metrics are primarily sensitive to n-gram overlap, which is neither necessary nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Peter Anderson , Basura Fernando , Mark Johnson , Stephen Gould

Accuracy and Diversity are two essential metrizable manifestations in generating natural and semantically correct captions. Many efforts have been made to enhance one of them with another decayed due to the trade-off gap. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Longzhen Yang , Yihang Liu , Yitao Peng , Lianghua He

Video captioning, i.e. the task of generating captions from video sequences creates a bridge between the Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision domains of computer science. The task of generating a semantically accurate description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Md. Mushfiqur Rahman , Thasin Abedin , Khondokar S. S. Prottoy , Ayana Moshruba , Fazlul Hasan Siddiqui

In this work, we focus on improving the captions generated by image-caption generation systems. We propose a novel re-ranking approach that leverages visual-semantic measures to identify the ideal caption that maximally captures the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Ahmed Sabir , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Pranava Madhyastha , Lluís Padró

Generating captions for long and complex videos is both critical and challenging, with significant implications for the growing fields of text-to-video generation and multi-modal understanding. One key challenge in long video captioning is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhantao Yang , Huangji Wang , Ruili Feng , Han Zhang , Yuting Hu , Shangwen Zhu , Junyan Li , Yu Liu , Fan Cheng

Current image captioning methods are usually trained via (penalized) maximum likelihood estimation. However, the log-likelihood score of a caption does not correlate well with human assessments of quality. Standard syntactic evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Siqi Liu , Zhenhai Zhu , Ning Ye , Sergio Guadarrama , Kevin Murphy

We introduce Visual Caption Restoration (VCR), a novel vision-language task that challenges models to accurately restore partially obscured texts using pixel-level hints within images. This task stems from the observation that text embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Tianyu Zhang , Suyuchen Wang , Lu Li , Ge Zhang , Perouz Taslakian , Sai Rajeswar , Jie Fu , Bang Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Image Captioning is a task that combines computer vision and natural language processing, where it aims to generate descriptive legends for images. It is a two-fold process relying on accurate image understanding and correct language…

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

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

Video detailed captioning is a key task which aims to generate comprehensive and coherent textual descriptions of video content, benefiting both video understanding and generation. In this paper, we propose AuroraCap, a video captioner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Wenhao Chai , Enxin Song , Yilun Du , Chenlin Meng , Vashisht Madhavan , Omer Bar-Tal , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Saining Xie , Christopher D. Manning

The rapid advancements in AI technologies have revolutionized the production of graphical content across various sectors, including entertainment, advertising, and e-commerce. These developments have spurred the need for robust evaluation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Memoona Aziz , Umair Rehman , Syed Ali Safi , Amir Zaib Abbasi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are pretrained on large, diverse, and noisy web-crawled datasets. This underscores the critical need for dataset pruning, as the quality of these datasets is strongly correlated with the performance of VLMs on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Anas Mahmoud , Mostafa Elhoushi , Amro Abbas , Yu Yang , Newsha Ardalani , Hugh Leather , Ari Morcos

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

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

The paper proposes a novel evaluation metric for automatic medical report generation from X-ray images, VLScore. It aims to overcome the limitations of existing evaluation methods, which either focus solely on textual similarities, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Gefen Dawidowicz , Elad Hirsch , Ayellet Tal

We propose Visual News Captioner, an entity-aware model for the task of news image captioning. We also introduce Visual News, a large-scale benchmark consisting of more than one million news images along with associated news articles, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Fuxiao Liu , Yinghan Wang , Tianlu Wang , Vicente Ordonez

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-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

Change Captioning is a task that aims to describe the difference between images with natural language. Most existing methods treat this problem as a difference judgment without the existence of distractors, such as viewpoint changes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xiangxi Shi , Xu Yang , Jiuxiang Gu , Shafiq Joty , Jianfei Cai

Inspired by retrieval-augmented language generation and pretrained Vision and Language (V&L) encoders, we present a new approach to image captioning that generates sentences given the input image and a set of captions retrieved from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Rita Ramos , Desmond Elliott , Bruno Martins