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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,…

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Image captioning is a challenging task and attracting more and more attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and which can be applied to efficient image retrieval, intelligent blind guidance and human-computer interaction, etc. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yiyu Wang , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Ben He

Despite continuously improving performance, contemporary image captioning models are prone to "hallucinating" objects that are not actually in a scene. One problem is that standard metrics only measure similarity to ground truth captions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Anna Rohrbach , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Kaylee Burns , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Evaluating concept customization is challenging, as it requires a comprehensive assessment of fidelity to generative prompts and concept images. Moreover, evaluating multiple concepts is considerably more difficult than evaluating a single…

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Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising performance on video quality assessment (VQA) tasks. However, adapting them to new scenarios remains expensive due to large-scale retraining and costly mean opinion score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xinyue Li , Shubo Xu , Zhichao Zhang , Zhaolin Cai , Yitong Chen , Guangtao Zhai

The training of controllable text-to-video (T2V) models relies heavily on the alignment between videos and captions, yet little existing research connects video caption evaluation with T2V generation assessment. This paper introduces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xinlong Chen , Yuanxing Zhang , Chongling Rao , Yushuo Guan , Jiaheng Liu , Fuzheng Zhang , Chengru Song , Qiang Liu , Di Zhang , Tieniu Tan

The image captioning task is about to generate suitable descriptions from images. For this task there can be several challenges such as accuracy, fluency and diversity. However there are few metrics that can cover all these properties while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chao Zeng , Sam Kwong

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance across a broad range of multimodal tasks. However, robust image caption evaluation using LVLMs remains challenging, particularly under domain-shift scenarios. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nakamasa Inoue , Kanoko Goto , Masanari Oi , Martyna Gruszka , Mahiro Ukai , Takumi Hirose , Yusuke Sekikawa

Image captioning is one of the most fundamental tasks in computer vision. Owing to its open-ended nature, it has received significant attention in the era of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). In pursuit of ever more detailed and…

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The advent of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has significantly advanced multimodal tasks, enabling more sophisticated and accurate reasoning across various applications, including image and video captioning, visual question answering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Hang Hua , Qing Liu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jing Shi , Zhifei Zhang , Yilin Wang , Jianming Zhang , Jiebo Luo

Current metrics for video captioning are mostly based on the text-level comparison between reference and candidate captions. However, they have some insuperable drawbacks, e.g., they cannot handle videos without references, and they may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yaya Shi , Xu Yang , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Benefiting from strong and efficient multi-modal alignment strategies, Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) are able to simulate human visual and reasoning capabilities, such as solving CAPTCHAs. However, existing benchmarks based on visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jianyi Zhang , Ziyin Zhou , Xu Ji , Shizhao Liu , Zhangchi Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. To comprehend and execute diverse human instructions over image data, instruction-tuned large vision-language models (LVLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lei Wang , Jiabang He , Shenshen Li , Ning Liu , Ee-Peng Lim

Existing image captioning systems are dedicated to generating narrative captions for images, which are spatially detached from the image in presentation. However, texts can also be used as decorations on the image to highlight the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yiqi Gao , Xinglin Hou , Yuanmeng Zhang , Tiezheng Ge , Yuning Jiang , Peng Wang

Top-down images play an important role in safety-critical settings such as autonomous navigation and aerial surveillance, where they provide holistic spatial information that front-view images cannot capture. Despite this, Vision Language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kaiyuan Hou , Minghui Zhao , Lilin Xu , Yuang Fan , Xiaofan Jiang

This paper aims to address the challenge of hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) particularly for dense image captioning tasks. To tackle the challenge, we identify the current lack of a metric that finely measures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cong Chen , Mingyu Liu , Chenchen Jing , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Hao Chen , Bo Zhang , Chunhua Shen

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

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

We introduce a Depicted image Quality Assessment method (DepictQA), overcoming the constraints of traditional score-based methods. DepictQA allows for detailed, language-based, human-like evaluation of image quality by leveraging…

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