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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

We propose an approach for interactive learning for an image captioning model. As human feedback is expensive and modern neural network based approaches often require large amounts of supervised data to be trained, we envision a system that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mareike Hartmann , Aliki Anagnostopoulou , Daniel Sonntag

In contrastive self-supervised learning, the common way to learn discriminative representation is to pull different augmented "views" of the same image closer while pushing all other images further apart, which has been proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Kaiyou Song , Shan Zhang , Zihao An , Zimeng Luo , Tong Wang , Jin Xie

Video captioning aims to automatically generate natural language sentences that can describe the visual contents of a given video. Existing generative models like encoder-decoder frameworks cannot explicitly explore the object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Yang Bai , Junyan Wang , Yang Long , Bingzhang Hu , Yang Song , Maurice Pagnucco , Yu Guan

Video-text retrieval has been stuck in the information mismatch caused by personalized and inadequate textual descriptions of videos. The substantial information gap between the two modalities hinders an effective cross-modal representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Baoyao Yang , Junxiang Chen , Wanyun Li , Wenbin Yao , Yang Zhou

While recent deep neural network models have achieved promising results on the image captioning task, they rely largely on the availability of corpora with paired image and sentence captions to describe objects in context. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Subhashini Venugopalan , Marcus Rohrbach , Raymond Mooney , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

We address a core problem of computer vision: Detection and description of 2D feature points for image matching. For a long time, hand-crafted designs, like the seminal SIFT algorithm, were unsurpassed in accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Stefan Gumhold , Carsten Rother , Eric Brachmann

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

Remote sensing change captioning (RSICC) aims to describe changes between bitemporal images in natural language. Existing methods often fail under challenges like illumination differences, viewpoint changes, blur effects, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ali Can Karaca , M. Enes Ozelbas , Saadettin Berber , Orkhan Karimli , Turabi Yildirim , M. Fatih Amasyali

Image captioning models require the high-level generalization ability to describe the contents of various images in words. Most existing approaches treat the image-caption pairs equally in their training without considering the differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hongkuan Zhang , Saku Sugawara , Akiko Aizawa , Lei Zhou , Ryohei Sasano , Koichi Takeda

Current visual text generation models struggle with the trade-off between text accuracy and overall image coherence. We find that achieving high text accuracy can reduce aesthetic quality and instruction-following capability. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaohou Fan , Qingzhong Wang , Yongsong Huang , Junyi Liu , Tomo Miyazaki , Shinichiro Omachi

Image captioning model is a cross-modality knowledge discovery task, which targets at automatically describing an image with an informative and coherent sentence. To generate the captions, the previous encoder-decoder frameworks directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ziwei Wang , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Describing images in natural language is a fundamental step towards the automatic modeling of connections between the visual and textual modalities. In this paper we present CaMEL, a novel Transformer-based architecture for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Manuele Barraco , Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

This paper shows that CIDEr-D, a traditional evaluation metric for image description, does not work properly on datasets where the number of words in the sentence is significantly greater than those in the MS COCO Captions dataset. We also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Gabriel Oliveira dos Santos , Esther Luna Colombini , Sandra Avila

Recent advances in retrieval-augmented models for image captioning highlight the benefit of retrieving related captions for efficient, lightweight models with strong domain-transfer capabilities. While these models demonstrate the success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Wenyan Li , Jiaang Li , Rita Ramos , Raphael Tang , Desmond Elliott

This research explores the realm of neural image captioning using deep learning models. The study investigates the performance of different neural architecture configurations, focusing on the inject architecture, and proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Pooja Bhatnagar , Sai Mrunaal , Sachin Kamnure

We investigate the effect of different model architectures, training objectives, hyperparameter settings and decoding procedures on the diversity of automatically generated image captions. Our results show that 1) simple decoding by naive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ruotian Luo , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Recent trends in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) research have been increasingly focusing on advancing beyond general image understanding towards more nuanced, object-level referential comprehension. In this paper, we present and delve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tongtian Yue , Jie Cheng , Longteng Guo , Xingyuan Dai , Zijia Zhao , Xingjian He , Gang Xiong , Yisheng Lv , Jing Liu

We address the challenging problem of image captioning by revisiting the representation of image scene graph. At the core of our method lies the decomposition of a scene graph into a set of sub-graphs, with each sub-graph capturing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yiwu Zhong , Liwei Wang , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , Yin Li

Video captioning is an advanced multi-modal task which aims to describe a video clip using a natural language sentence. The encoder-decoder framework is the most popular paradigm for this task in recent years. However, there exist some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Haoran Chen , Jianmin Li , Xiaolin Hu