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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

Image captioning is the process of generating a natural language description of an image. Most current image captioning models, however, do not take into account the emotional aspect of an image, which is very relevant to activities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Peter Anderson , Len Hamey

This paper discusses and demonstrates the outcomes from our experimentation on Image Captioning. Image captioning is a much more involved task than image recognition or classification, because of the additional challenge of recognizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Vikram Mullachery , Vishal Motwani

Language-image pre-training largely relies on how precisely and thoroughly a text describes its paired image. In practice, however, the contents of an image can be so rich that well describing them requires lengthy captions (e.g., with 10…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kecheng Zheng , Yifei Zhang , Wei Wu , Fan Lu , Shuailei Ma , Xin Jin , Wei Chen , Yujun Shen

Image captioning evaluation remains a significant challenge, as vision-language models evolve toward more challenging capabilities such as generating long-form and context-rich descriptions. State-of-the-art evaluation metrics involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gonçalo Gomes , Bruno Martins , Chrysoula Zerva

Benefiting from advances in machine vision and natural language processing techniques, current image captioning systems are able to generate detailed visual descriptions. For the most part, these descriptions represent an objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

Image captioning has so far been explored mostly in English, as most available datasets are in this language. However, the application of image captioning should not be restricted by language. Only few studies have been conducted for image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Weiyu Lan , Xirong Li , Jianfeng Dong

Current captioning approaches can describe images using black-box architectures whose behavior is hardly controllable and explainable from the exterior. As an image can be described in infinite ways depending on the goal and the context at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Image captioning requires numerous annotated image-text pairs, resulting in substantial annotation costs. Recently, large models (e.g. diffusion models and large language models) have excelled in producing high-quality images and text. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Feipeng Ma , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

Consistency Models (CMs) have showed a promise in creating visual content efficiently and with high quality. However, the way to add new conditional controls to the pretrained CMs has not been explored. In this technical report, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jie Xiao , Kai Zhu , Han Zhang , Zhiheng Liu , Yujun Shen , Yu Liu , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

One property that remains lacking in image captions generated by contemporary methods is discriminability: being able to tell two images apart given the caption for one of them. We propose a way to improve this aspect of caption generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ruotian Luo , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Gregory Shakhnarovich

This paper focuses on enhancing the captions generated by image-caption generation systems. We propose an approach for improving caption generation systems by choosing the most closely related output to the image rather than the most likely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ahmed Sabir

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

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

Image captioning aims to describe visual content in natural language. As 'a picture is worth a thousand words', there could be various correct descriptions for an image. However, with maximum likelihood estimation as the training objective,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zihao Yue , Anwen Hu , Liang Zhang , Qin Jin

Automatically creating the description of an image using any natural languages sentence like English is a very challenging task. It requires expertise of both image processing as well as natural language processing. This paper discuss about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Parth Shah , Vishvajit Bakarola , Supriya Pati

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

Image captioning models have been able to generate grammatically correct and human understandable sentences. However most of the captions convey limited information as the model used is trained on datasets that do not caption all possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Pranav Agarwal , Alejandro Betancourt , Vana Panagiotou , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez

Most current captioning systems use language models trained on data from specific settings, such as image-based captioning via Amazon Mechanical Turk, limiting their ability to generalize to other modality distributions and contexts. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ariel Shaulov , Tal Shaharabany , Eitan Shaar , Gal Chechik , Lior Wolf

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