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Learned dynamic weighting of the conditioning signal (attention) has been shown to improve neural language generation in a variety of settings. The weights applied when generating a particular output sequence have also been viewed as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Philipp Sadler , Tatjana Scheffler , David Schlangen

Image captioning, situated at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, requires a sophisticated understanding of both visual scenes and linguistic structure. While modern approaches are dominated by large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Hitesh Kumar Gupta

Biomedical image analysis is of paramount importance for the advancement of healthcare and medical research. Although conventional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are frequently employed in this domain, facing limitations in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Gousia Habib , Shaima Qureshi , Malik ishfaq

Image captioning transforms complex visual information into abstract natural language for representation, which can help computers understanding the world quickly. However, due to the complexity of the real environment, it needs to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Xinxin Zhu , Weining Wang , Longteng Guo , Jing Liu

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

Recent models for image processing are using the Convolutional neural network (CNN) which requires a pixel per pixel analysis of the input image. This method works well. However, it is time-consuming if we have large images. To increase the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mohamed Karim Belaid

The internal workings of modern deep learning models stay often unclear to an external observer, although spatial attention mechanisms are involved. The idea of this work is to translate these spatial attentions into natural language to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Philipp Sadler

Describing images with text is a fundamental problem in vision-language research. Current studies in this domain mostly focus on single image captioning. However, in various real applications (e.g., image editing, difference interpretation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Hao Tan , Franck Dernoncourt , Zhe Lin , Trung Bui , Mohit Bansal

Advances in language modeling have led to the development of deep attention-based models that are performant across a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) problems. These language models are typified by a pre-training process…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Joseph F DeRose , Jiayao Wang , Matthew Berger

To bridge the gap between humans and machines in image understanding and describing, we need further insight into how people describe a perceived scene. In this paper, we study the agreement between bottom-up saliency-based visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Hamed R. Tavakoli , Rakshith Shetty , Ali Borji , Jorma Laaksonen

Automated captioning of photos is a mission that incorporates the difficulties of photo analysis and text generation. One essential feature of captioning is the concept of attention: how to determine what to specify and in which sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Daniel Yarnell , Xian Wang

Stories are essential for genealogy research since they can help build emotional connections with people. A lot of family stories are reserved in historical photos and albums. Recent development on image captioning models makes it feasible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Jiayun Li , Mohammad K. Ebrahimpour , Azadeh Moghtaderi , Yen-Yun Yu

Recent neural models for image captioning usually employ an encoder-decoder framework with an attention mechanism. However, the attention mechanism in such a framework aligns one single (attended) image feature vector to one caption word,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Lun Huang , Wenmin Wang , Yaxian Xia , Jie Chen

Image captioning has attracted ever-increasing research attention in the multimedia community. To this end, most cutting-edge works rely on an encoder-decoder framework with attention mechanisms, which have achieved remarkable progress.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Chen Shen , Rongrong Ji , Fuhai Chen , Xiaoshuai Sun , Xiangming Li

Motivated by the recent progress in generative models, we introduce a model that generates images from natural language descriptions. The proposed model iteratively draws patches on a canvas, while attending to the relevant words in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Elman Mansimov , Emilio Parisotto , Jimmy Lei Ba , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Image captioning is a research hotspot where encoder-decoder models combining convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) achieve promising results. Despite significant progress, these models generate sentences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Hongwei Ge , Zehang Yan , Kai Zhang , Mingde Zhao , Liang Sun

Automatic image captioning, a multifaceted task bridging computer vision and natural language processing, aims to generate descriptive textual content from visual input. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amanuel Tafese Dufera

In this paper, we address the problem of image captioning specifically for molecular translation where the result would be a predicted chemical notation in InChI format for a given molecular structure. Current approaches mainly follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Carola Sundaramoorthy , Lin Ziwen Kelvin , Mahak Sarin , Shubham Gupta

Automated image captioning using the content from the image is very appealing when done by harnessing the capability of computer vision and natural language processing. Extensive research has been done in the field with a major focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Wasim Akram Khan , Anil Kumar Vuppala

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) frequently "cheat" by exploiting superficial correlations, raising concerns about whether they make predictions for the right reasons. Inspired by cognitive science, which highlights the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ryan L. Yang , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi