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We present MeetDot, a videoconferencing system with live translation captions overlaid on screen. The system aims to facilitate conversation between people who speak different languages, thereby reducing communication barriers between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Arkady Arkhangorodsky , Christopher Chu , Scot Fang , Yiqi Huang , Denglin Jiang , Ajay Nagesh , Boliang Zhang , Kevin Knight

Audio captioning is a novel field of multi-modal translation and it is the task of creating a textual description of the content of an audio signal (e.g. "people talking in a big room"). The creation of a dataset for this task requires a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Samuel Lipping , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Image captioning is an ambiguous problem, with many suitable captions for an image. To address ambiguity, beam search is the de facto method for sampling multiple captions. However, beam search is computationally expensive and known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Aditya Deshpande , Jyoti Aneja , Liwei Wang , Alexander Schwing , D. A. Forsyth

Recent advancements in multimodal models highlight the value of rewritten captions for improving performance, yet key challenges remain. For example, while synthetic captions often provide superior quality and image-text alignment, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhengfeng Lai , Vasileios Saveris , Chen Chen , Hong-You Chen , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Juan Lao Tebar , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Peter Grasch , Meng Cao , Yinfei Yang

The rapid development of Deepfake technology has enabled the generation of highly realistic manipulated videos, posing severe social and ethical challenges. Existing Deepfake detection methods primarily focused on either spatial or temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiaxin Chen , Miao Hu , Dengyong Zhang , Jingyang Meng

High-quality, large-scale audio captioning is crucial for advancing audio understanding, yet current automated methods often generate captions that lack fine-grained detail and contextual accuracy, primarily due to their reliance on limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shunian Chen , Xinyuan Xie , Zheshu Chen , Liyan Zhao , Owen Lee , Zhan Su , Qilin Sun , Benyou Wang

Image recaptioning is widely used to generate training datasets with enhanced quality for various multimodal tasks. Existing recaptioning methods typically rely on powerful multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to enhance textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yuchi Wang , Yishuo Cai , Shuhuai Ren , Sihan Yang , Linli Yao , Yuanxin Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xu Sun

Image fusion, a fundamental low-level vision task, aims to integrate multiple image sequences into a single output while preserving as much information as possible from the input. However, existing methods face several significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zihan Cao , Yu Zhong , Ziqi Wang , Liang-Jian Deng

Automatically generating descriptive captions for images is a well-researched area in computer vision. However, existing evaluation approaches focus on measuring the similarity between two sentences disregarding fine-grained semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Dan Zecha , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

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

Zero-shot image captioning (IC) without well-paired image-text data can be divided into two categories, training-free and text-only-training. Generally, these two types of methods realize zero-shot IC by integrating pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zequn Zeng , Yan Xie , Hao Zhang , Chiyu Chen , Zhengjue Wang , Bo Chen

Cross-Domain Image Retrieval (CDIR) is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match images across different visual domains such as sketches, paintings, and photographs. Existing CDIR methods rely either on supervised learning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lucas Iijima , Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Significant performance gains in deep learning coupled with the exponential growth of image and video data on the Internet have resulted in the recent emergence of automated image captioning systems. Ensuring scalability of automated image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Karan Sharma , Arun CS Kumar , Suchendra Bhandarkar

Existing automated techniques for software documentation typically attempt to reason between two main sources of information: code and natural language. However, this reasoning process is often complicated by the lexical gap between more…

An image caption should fluently present the essential information in a given image, including informative, fine-grained entity mentions and the manner in which these entities interact. However, current captioning models are usually trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Sanqiang Zhao , Piyush Sharma , Tomer Levinboim , Radu Soricut

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

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

Scientific figure captioning is a complex task that requires generating contextually appropriate descriptions of visual content. However, existing methods often fall short by utilizing incomplete information, treating the task solely as…

In conventional studies on environmental sound separation and synthesis using captions, datasets consisting of multiple-source sounds with their captions were used for model training. However, when we collect the captions for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuki Okamoto , Kanta Shimonishi , Keisuke Imoto , Kota Dohi , Shota Horiguchi , Yohei Kawaguchi

Multi-view counting (MVC) methods have shown their superiority over single-view counterparts, particularly in situations characterized by heavy occlusion and severe perspective distortions. However, hand-crafted heuristic features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hong Mo , Xiong Zhang , Jianchao Tan , Cheng Yang , Qiong Gu , Bo Hang , Wenqi Ren