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The task of image captioning demands an algorithm to generate natural language descriptions of visual inputs. Recent advancements have seen a convergence between image captioning research and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Davide Bucciarelli , Nicholas Moratelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Video detailed captioning is a key task which aims to generate comprehensive and coherent textual descriptions of video content, benefiting both video understanding and generation. In this paper, we propose AuroraCap, a video captioner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Wenhao Chai , Enxin Song , Yilun Du , Chenlin Meng , Vashisht Madhavan , Omer Bar-Tal , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Saining Xie , Christopher D. Manning

Large video language models (LVLMs) have made notable progress in video understanding, spurring the development of corresponding evaluation benchmarks. However, existing benchmarks generally assess overall performance across entire video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Hou Xia , Zheren Fu , Fangcan Ling , Jiajun Li , Yi Tu , Zhendong Mao , Yongdong Zhang

Caption quality has emerged as a critical bottleneck in training high-quality text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) generative models. While visual language models (VLMs) are commonly deployed to generate captions from visual data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Varun Ananth , Baqiao Liu , Haoran Cai

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

Recent LLMs have shown remarkable success in following user instructions, yet handling instructions with multiple constraints remains a significant challenge. In this work, we introduce WildIFEval - a large-scale dataset of 7K real user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gili Lior , Asaf Yehudai , Ariel Gera , Liat Ein-Dor

Image captioning has long been a pivotal task in visual understanding, with recent advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) significantly enhancing the ability to generate detailed image captions. However, the evaluation of detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Qinghao Ye , Xianhan Zeng , Fu Li , Chunyuan Li , Haoqi Fan

Visual instruction tuning has become the predominant technology in eliciting the multimodal task-solving capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs). Despite the success, as visual instructions require images as the input, it would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zikang Liu , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Dawei Gao , Yaliang Li , Ji-Rong Wen

We introduce VisIT-Bench (Visual InsTruction Benchmark), a benchmark for evaluation of instruction-following vision-language models for real-world use. Our starting point is curating 70 'instruction families' that we envision instruction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yonatan Bitton , Hritik Bansal , Jack Hessel , Rulin Shao , Wanrong Zhu , Anas Awadalla , Josh Gardner , Rohan Taori , Ludwig Schmidt

The evolution of large models has witnessed the emergence of In-Context Learning (ICL) capabilities. In Natural Language Processing (NLP), numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of ICL. Inspired by the success of Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Li Li , Yongliang Wu , Jingze Zhu , Jiawei Peng , Jianfei Cai , Xu Yang

Following formatting instructions to generate well-structured content is a fundamental yet often unmet capability for large language models (LLMs). To study this capability, which we refer to as format faithfulness, we present FormatBench,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jiashu Yao , Heyan Huang , Zeming Liu , Haoyu Wen , Wei Su , Boao Qian , Yuhang Guo

Curation methods for massive vision-language datasets trade off between dataset size and quality. However, even the highest quality of available curated captions are far too short to capture the rich visual detail in an image. To show the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jack Urbanek , Florian Bordes , Pietro Astolfi , Mary Williamson , Vasu Sharma , Adriana Romero-Soriano

While image captioning provides isolated descriptions for individual images, and video captioning offers one single narrative for an entire video clip, our work explores an important middle ground: progress-aware video captioning at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zihui Xue , Joungbin An , Xitong Yang , Kristen Grauman

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have led to impressive progress across various benchmarks. However, their capability in understanding infrared images remains unexplored. To address this gap, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Tao Zhang , Yuyang Hong , Yang Xia , Kun Ding , Zeyu Zhang , Ying Wang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Controllable captioning is essential for precise multimodal alignment and instruction following, yet existing models often lack fine-grained control and reliable evaluation protocols. To address this gap, we present the AnyCap Project, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yiming Ren , Zhiqiang Lin , Yu Li , Gao Meng , Weiyun Wang , Junjie Wang , Zicheng Lin , Jifeng Dai , Yujiu Yang , Wenhai Wang , Ruihang Chu

Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in image captioning, visual question answering, and visual reasoning. Yet they remain prone to vision-language misalignment, often producing overly generic or hallucinated…

Medical image captioning via vision-language models has shown promising potential for clinical diagnosis assistance. However, generating contextually relevant descriptions with accurate modality recognition remains challenging. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yining Zhao , Ali Braytee , Mukesh Prasad

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language understanding but face challenges in adapting to dynamic real-world scenarios that require continuous integration of new knowledge and skills. While continual learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hongbo Zhao , Fei Zhu , Haiyang Guo , Meng Wang , Rundong Wang , Gaofeng Meng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

We introduce VideoComp, a benchmark and learning framework for advancing video-text compositionality understanding, aimed at improving vision-language models (VLMs) in fine-grained temporal alignment. Unlike existing benchmarks focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Dahun Kim , AJ Piergiovanni , Ganesh Mallya , Anelia Angelova

In-context learning (ICL) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to learn tasks from demonstration examples without parameter updates. Although it has been extensively studied in LLMs, its effectiveness in Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Gabriel O. dos Santos , Esther Colombini , Sandra Avila