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Image tagging, a fundamental vision task, traditionally relies on human-annotated datasets to train multi-label classifiers, which incurs significant labor and costs. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer promising potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ming-Kun Xie , Jia-Hao Xiao , Zhiqiang Kou , Zhongnian Li , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

The task of image captioning demands an algorithm to generate natural language descriptions of visual inputs. Recent advancements have seen a convergence between image captioning research and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Davide Bucciarelli , Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often struggle to handle multi-hop question-answering tasks accurately due to irrelevant context retrieval and limited complex reasoning capabilities. We introduce Collab-RAG, a collaborative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ran Xu , Wenqi Shi , Yuchen Zhuang , Yue Yu , Joyce C. Ho , Haoyu Wang , Carl Yang

Detailed image captioning demands both factual grounding and fine-grained coverage, yet existing methods have struggled to achieve them simultaneously. We address this tension with Reflective Note-Guided Captioning (ReflectCAP), where a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kyungmin Min , Minbeom Kim , Kang-il Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Kyomin Jung

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful general-purpose interfaces for many machine learning problems. Recent work has adapted LLMs to generative visual tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and visual chat,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Piotr Teterwak , Ximeng Sun , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko , Ser-Nam Lim

Vision and Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have enabled visual recognition of a potentially unlimited set of categories described by text prompts. However, for the best visual recognition performance, these models still require tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Leonid Karlinsky , Wei Lin , Horst Possegger , Rogerio Feris , Horst Bischof

Recent advances in vision-language foundational models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated significant strides in zero-shot classification. However, the extensive parameterization of models like CLIP necessitates a resource-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Qijie Wang , Guandu Liu , Bin Wang

Constructing dataset for fashion style recognition is challenging due to the inherent subjectivity and ambiguity of style concepts. Recent advances in text-to-image models have facilitated generative data augmentation by synthesizing images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuki Hirakawa , Ryotaro Shimizu

The application of Vision-language foundation models (VLFMs) to remote sensing (RS) imagery has garnered significant attention due to their superior capability in various downstream tasks. A key challenge lies in the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yiguo He , Junjie Zhu , Yiying Li , Xiaoyu Zhang , Chunping Qiu , Jun Wang , Qiangjuan Huang , Ke Yang

Zero-shot video captioning aims to generate sentences for describing videos without training the model on video-text pairs, which remains underexplored. Existing zero-shot image captioning methods typically adopt a text-only training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeyu Pan , Ping Li , Wenxiao Wang

Generative Search Engine (GSE) leverages the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technique and the Large Language Model (LLM) to integrate multi-source information and provide users with accurate and comprehensive responses. Unlike…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xiaolu Chen , Jie Bao , Haojie Wu , Zhen Chen , Yong Liao

This paper introduces QCaption, a novel video captioning and Q&A pipeline that enhances video analytics by fusing three models: key frame extraction, a Large Multimodal Model (LMM) for image-text analysis, and a Large Language Model (LLM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiale Wang , Gee Wah Ng , Lee Onn Mak , Randall Cher , Ng Ding Hei Ryan , Davis Wang

Current captioning approaches tend to generate correct but "generic" descriptions that lack real-world knowledge, e.g., named entities and contextual information. Considering that Vision-Language Pre-Training (VLP) models master massive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Kanzhi Cheng , Wenpo Song , Zheng Ma , Wenhao Zhu , Zixuan Zhu , Jianbing Zhang

Benefited from image-text contrastive learning, pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, allow to direct leverage texts as images (TaI) for parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). While CLIP is capable of making image features to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Chun-Mei Feng , Kai Yu , Xinxing Xu , Salman Khan , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Wangmeng Zuo , Yong Liu

Caption quality has emerged as a critical bottleneck in training high-quality text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) generative models. While visual language models (VLMs) are commonly deployed to generate captions from visual data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Varun Ananth , Baqiao Liu , Haoran Cai

State-of-The-Art (SoTA) image captioning models are often trained on the MicroSoft Common Objects in Context (MS-COCO) dataset, which contains human-annotated captions with an average length of approximately ten tokens. Although effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Luigi Celona , Simone Bianco , Marco Donzella , Paolo Napoletano

The objective of image captioning models is to bridge the gap between the visual and linguistic modalities by generating natural language descriptions that accurately reflect the content of input images. In recent years, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alessandro Nicolosi , Rita Cucchiara

Supervised visual captioning models typically require a large scale of images or videos paired with descriptions in a specific language (i.e., the vision-caption pairs) for training. However, collecting and labeling large-scale datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Bang Yang , Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Yaowei Wang , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

Recently, vision-language models like CLIP have advanced the state of the art in a variety of multi-modal tasks including image captioning and caption evaluation. Many approaches leverage CLIP for cross-modal retrieval to condition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Fabian Paischer , Markus Hofmarcher , Sepp Hochreiter , Thomas Adler

Vehicle make and model recognition (VMMR) is an important task in intelligent transportation systems, but existing approaches struggle to adapt to newly released models. Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) provides strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Wei-Chia Chang , Yan-Ann Chen