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Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) are widely acknowledged to be prone to hallucinations. Existing research addressing this problem has primarily been confined to image inputs, with limited exploration of video-based hallucinations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wey Yeh Choong , Yangyang Guo , Mohan Kankanhalli

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to integrate visual and linguistic information, achieving near-human proficiency in tasks like object recognition, captioning, and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zhikai Wang , Jiashuo Sun , Wenqi Zhang , Zhiqiang Hu , Xin Li , Fan Wang , Deli Zhao

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in many vision-language tasks, yet their capabilities in fine-grained visual understanding remain insufficiently evaluated. Existing benchmarks either contain limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Fengbin Zhu , Ziyang Liu , Xiang Yao Ng , Haohui Wu , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Chao Wang , Huanbo Luan , Tat Seng Chua

It has been a longstanding goal within image captioning to move beyond a dependence on object detection. We investigate using superpixels coupled with Vision Language Models (VLMs) to bridge the gap between detector-based captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Henry Senior , Luca Rossi , Gregory Slabaugh , Shanxin Yuan

The advent of vision-language pre-training techniques enhanced substantial progress in the development of models for image captioning. However, these models frequently produce generic captions and may omit semantically important image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Noam Rotstein , David Bensaid , Shaked Brody , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual understanding in recent years. Yet, they still lag behind human capabilities in specific visual tasks such as counting or relational reasoning. To understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zihan Weng , Lucas Gomez , Taylor Whittington Webb , Pouya Bashivan

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

Recently, automatic image caption generation has been an important focus of the work on multimodal translation task. Existing approaches can be roughly categorized into two classes, i.e., top-down and bottom-up, the former transfers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Wei Wei , Ling Cheng , Xianling Mao , Guangyou Zhou , Feida Zhu

The ability to judge whether a caption correctly describes an image is a critical part of vision-language understanding. However, state-of-the-art models often misinterpret the correctness of fine-grained details, leading to errors in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Suzanne Petryk , Spencer Whitehead , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach , Marcus Rohrbach

Automatic evaluation metrics hold a fundamental importance in the development and fine-grained analysis of captioning systems. While current evaluation metrics tend to achieve an acceptable correlation with human judgements at the system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Naeha Sharif , Lyndon White , Mohammed Bennamoun , Wei Liu , Syed Afaq Ali Shah

Recent progress in large-scale pre-training has led to the development of advanced vision-language models (VLMs) with remarkable proficiency in comprehending and generating multimodal content. Despite the impressive ability to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hang Hua , Jing Shi , Kushal Kafle , Simon Jenni , Daoan Zhang , John Collomosse , Scott Cohen , Jiebo Luo

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

We present Pix2Cap-COCO, the first panoptic pixel-level caption dataset designed to advance fine-grained visual understanding. To achieve this, we carefully design an automated annotation pipeline that prompts GPT-4V to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zuyao You , Junke Wang , Lingyu Kong , Bo He , Zuxuan Wu

High-quality image captions play a crucial role in improving the performance of cross-modal applications such as text-to-image generation, text-to-video generation, and text-image retrieval. To generate long-form, high-quality captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ruotian Peng , Haiying He , Yake Wei , Yandong Wen , Di Hu

Dense image captioning is critical for cross-modal alignment in vision-language pretraining and text-to-image generation, but scaling expert-quality annotations is prohibitively expensive. While synthetic captioning via strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tzu-Heng Huang , Sirajul Salekin , Javier Movellan , Frederic Sala , Manjot Bilkhu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) integrate image encoders with Large Language Models (LLMs) to process multi-modal inputs and perform complex visual tasks. However, they often generate hallucinations by describing non-existent objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yaqi Sun , Kyohei Atarashi , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

Generating accurate, informative, and hallucination-free captions for charts remains challenging for vision language models, primarily due to the lack of large-scale, high-quality datasets of real-world charts. However, existing real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Junyoung Lim , Jaewoo Ahn , Gunhee Kim

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great effectiveness for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) using tasks that are challenging yet easily verifiable, such as math reasoning or code generation. However, extending this success to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xiyao Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Chao Feng , Yongyuan Liang , Yuhang Zhou , Xiaoyu Liu , Ziyi Zang , Ming Li , Chung-Ching Lin , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Furong Huang , Lijuan Wang

Generating detailed and accurate descriptions for specific regions in images and videos remains a fundamental challenge for vision-language models. We introduce the Describe Anything Model (DAM), a model designed for detailed localized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Long Lian , Yifan Ding , Yunhao Ge , Sifei Liu , Hanzi Mao , Boyi Li , Marco Pavone , Ming-Yu Liu , Trevor Darrell , Adam Yala , Yin Cui