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In this paper we describe a novel framework and algorithms for discovering image patch patterns from a large corpus of weakly supervised image-caption pairs generated from news events. Current pattern mining techniques attempt to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Hongzhi Li , Joseph G. Ellis , Shih-Fu Chang

We propose SC-Captioner, a reinforcement learning framework that enables the self-correcting capability of image caption models. Our crucial technique lies in the design of the reward function to incentivize accurate caption corrections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lin Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Kangcong Li , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Given an image, generating its natural language description (i.e., caption) is a well studied problem. Approaches proposed to address this problem usually rely on image features that are difficult to interpret. Particularly, these image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Aditya Mogadala , Xiaoyu Shen , Dietrich Klakow

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual representation learning, such advances have focused on building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Austin Stone , Hagen Soltau , Robert Geirhos , Xi Yi , Ye Xia , Bingyi Cao , Kaifeng Chen , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Text-based image captioning (TextCap) which aims to read and reason images with texts is crucial for a machine to understand a detailed and complex scene environment, considering that texts are omnipresent in daily life. This task, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Guanghui Xu , Shuaicheng Niu , Mingkui Tan , Yucheng Luo , Qing Du , Qi Wu

Multi-subject personalized image generation aims to synthesize customized images containing multiple specified subjects without requiring test-time optimization. However, achieving fine-grained independent control over multiple subjects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Qiaoqiao Jin , Siming Fu , Dong She , Weinan Jia , Hualiang Wang , Mu Liu , Jidong Jiang

This paper considers a video caption generating network referred to as Semantic Grouping Network (SGN) that attempts (1) to group video frames with discriminating word phrases of partially decoded caption and then (2) to decode those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Hobin Ryu , Sunghun Kang , Haeyong Kang , Chang D. Yoo

Image captioning is a challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate a natural language description of an image. Most recent researches follow the encoder-decoder framework which depends heavily on the previous generated words for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou , Zhendong Mao , Jianlong Tan

In the recent past, complex deep neural networks have received huge interest in various document understanding tasks such as document image classification and document retrieval. As many document types have a distinct visual style, learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Souhail Bakkali , Ziheng Ming , Mickael Coustaty , Marçal Rusiñol

Learning discriminative representation from the complex spatio-temporal dynamic space is essential for video recognition. On top of those stylized spatio-temporal computational units, further refining the learnt feature with axial contexts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yanbin Hao , Hao Zhang , Chong-Wah Ngo , Xiangnan He

In this paper we study image captioning as a conditional GAN training, proposing both a context-aware LSTM captioner and co-attentive discriminator, which enforces semantic alignment between images and captions. We empirically focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Pierre L. Dognin , Igor Melnyk , Youssef Mroueh , Jarret Ross , Tom Sercu

Image set recognition has been widely applied in many practical problems like real-time video retrieval and image caption tasks. Due to its superior performance, it has grown into a significant topic in recent years. However, images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Chuan-Xian Ren , You-Wei Luo , Xiao-Lin Xu , Dao-Qing Dai , Hong Yan

We introduce a new multi-modal task for computer systems, posed as a combined vision-language comprehension challenge: identifying the most suitable text describing a scene, given several similar options. Accomplishing the task entails…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Nan Ding , Sebastian Goodman , Fei Sha , Radu Soricut

Image clustering divides a collection of images into meaningful groups, typically interpreted post-hoc via human-given annotations. Those are usually in the form of text, begging the question of using text as an abstraction for image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Andreas Stephan , Lukas Miklautz , Kevin Sidak , Jan Philip Wahle , Bela Gipp , Claudia Plant , Benjamin Roth

The perceptual-based grouping process produces a hierarchical and compositional image representation that helps both human and machine vision systems recognize heterogeneous visual concepts. Examples can be found in the classical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Zhiheng Li , Wenxuan Bao , Jiayang Zheng , Chenliang Xu

Intelligent devices have become deeply integrated into everyday life, generating vast amounts of user interactions that form valuable personal knowledge. Efficient organization of this knowledge in user memory is essential for enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yijie Zhong , Mengying Guo , Zewei Wang , Zhongyang Li , Dandan Tu , Haofen Wang

Transformer-based architectures have shown great success in image captioning, where object regions are encoded and then attended into the vectorial representations to guide the caption decoding. However, such vectorial representations only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Jiayi Ji , Yunpeng Luo , Xiaoshuai Sun , Fuhai Chen , Gen Luo , Yongjian Wu , Yue Gao , Rongrong Ji

Image captioning is an important but challenging task, applicable to virtual assistants, editing tools, image indexing, and support of the disabled. Its challenges are due to the variability and ambiguity of possible image descriptions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jyoti Aneja , Aditya Deshpande , Alexander Schwing

Current image captioning approaches generate descriptions which lack specific information, such as named entities that are involved in the images. In this paper we propose a new task which aims to generate informative image captions, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Di Lu , Spencer Whitehead , Lifu Huang , Heng Ji , Shih-Fu Chang

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