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This work investigates descriptive captions as an additional source of supervision for biological multimodal foundation models. Images and captions can be viewed as complementary samples from the latent morphospace of a species, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ziheng Zhang , Xinyue Ma , Arpita Chowdhury , Elizabeth G. Campolongo , Matthew J. Thompson , Net Zhang , Samuel Stevens , Hilmar Lapp , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Yu Su , Wei-Lun Chao , Jianyang Gu

We propose a method to efficiently equip the Segment Anything Model (SAM) with the ability to generate regional captions. SAM presents strong generalizability to segment anything while is short for semantic understanding. By introducing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xiaoke Huang , Jianfeng Wang , Yansong Tang , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu , Jiwen Lu , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

The integration of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has revolutionized information retrieval and expanded the practical applications of AI. However, current systems struggle in accurately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Dongyoung Go , Taesun Whang , Chanhee Lee , Hwa-Yeon Kim , Sunghoon Park , Seunghwan Ji , Jinho Kim , Dongchan Kim , Young-Bum Kim

Text-based image captioning (TextCap) requires simultaneous comprehension of visual content and reading the text of images to generate a natural language description. Although a task can teach machines to understand the complex human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Wenqiao Zhang , Haochen Shi , Jiannan Guo , Shengyu Zhang , Qingpeng Cai , Juncheng Li , Sihui Luo , Yueting Zhuang

Recent advances in image captioning task have led to increasing interests in video captioning task. However, most works on video captioning are focused on generating single input of aggregated features, which hardly deviates from image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Andrew Shin , Katsunori Ohnishi , Tatsuya Harada

Existing dense or paragraph video captioning approaches rely on holistic representations of videos, possibly coupled with learned object/action representations, to condition hierarchical language decoders. However, they fundamentally lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Shih-Han Chou , James J. Little , Leonid Sigal

Text-to-music generation (T2M-Gen) faces a major obstacle due to the scarcity of large-scale publicly available music datasets with natural language captions. To address this, we propose the Music Understanding LLaMA (MU-LLaMA), capable of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Shansong Liu , Atin Sakkeer Hussain , Chenshuo Sun , Ying Shan

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in various visual benchmarks but are often constrained by the lack of high-quality visual fine-tuning data. To address this challenge, we introduce VisCon-100K, a novel dataset derived from interleaved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Gokul Karthik Kumar , Iheb Chaabane , Kebin Wu

Reasoning segmentation seeks pixel-accurate masks for targets referenced by complex, often implicit instructions, requiring context-dependent reasoning over the scene. Recent multimodal language models have advanced instruction following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Prantik Howlader , Hoang Nguyen-Canh , Srijan Das , Jingyi Xu , Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

The quality of the video dataset (image quality, resolution, and fine-grained caption) greatly influences the performance of the video generation model. The growing demand for video applications sets higher requirements for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zhucun Xue , Jiangning Zhang , Teng Hu , Haoyang He , Yinan Chen , Yuxuan Cai , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu , Xiangtai Li , Dacheng Tao

Image captioning has long been regarded as a fundamental task in visual understanding. Recently, however, few large vision-language model (LVLM) research discusses model's image captioning performance because of the outdated short-caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hongyuan Dong , Jiawen Li , Bohong Wu , Jiacong Wang , Yuan Zhang , Haoyuan Guo

Video captioning aims to generate comprehensive and coherent descriptions of the video content, contributing to the advancement of both video understanding and generation. However, existing methods often suffer from motion-detail imbalance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Chunlin Zhong , Qiuxia Hou , Zhangjun Zhou , Shuang Hao , Haonan Lu , Yanhao Zhang , He Tang , Xiang Bai

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual understanding tasks such as visual grounding, segmentation, and captioning. However, their ability to perceive perceptual-level image features remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shuo Cao , Jiayang Li , Xiaohui Li , Yuandong Pu , Kaiwen Zhu , Yuanting Gao , Siqi Luo , Yi Xin , Qi Qin , Yu Zhou , Xiangyu Chen , Wenlong Zhang , Bin Fu , Yu Qiao , Yihao Liu

Object detection, scene graph generation and region captioning, which are three scene understanding tasks at different semantic levels, are tied together: scene graphs are generated on top of objects detected in an image with their pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yikang Li , Wanli Ouyang , Bolei Zhou , Kun Wang , Xiaogang Wang

Content-based music information retrieval has seen rapid progress with the adoption of deep learning. Current approaches to high-level music description typically make use of classification models, such as in auto-tagging or genre and mood…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ilaria Manco , Emmanouil Benetos , Elio Quinton , Gyorgy Fazekas

A major challenge for video captioning is to combine audio and visual cues. Existing multi-modal fusion methods have shown encouraging results in video understanding. However, the temporal structures of multiple modalities at different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Xin Wang , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang

Image captioning systems often produce generic descriptions that fail to capture event-level semantics which are crucial for applications like news reporting and digital archiving. We present ReCap, a novel pipeline for event-enriched image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Thinh-Phuc Nguyen , Thanh-Hai Nguyen , Gia-Huy Dinh , Lam-Huy Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

We examine the possibility that recent promising results in automatic caption generation are due primarily to language models. By varying image representation quality produced by a convolutional neural network, we find that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Jack Hessel , Nicolas Savva , Michael J. Wilber

Visual captioning benchmarks have become outdated with the emergence of modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as the brief ground-truth sentences and traditional metrics fail to assess detailed captions effectively. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Zhihang Liu , Chen-Wei Xie , Bin Wen , Feiwu Yu , Jixuan Chen , Pandeng Li , Boqiang Zhang , Nianzu Yang , Yinglu Li , Zuan Gao , Yun Zheng , Hongtao Xie

Automatically describing video, or video captioning, has been widely studied in the multimedia field. This paper proposes a new task of sensor-augmented egocentric-video captioning, a newly constructed dataset for it called MMAC Captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Katsuyuki Nakamura , Hiroki Ohashi , Mitsuhiro Okada