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Image captioning is a critical task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, with wide-ranging applications across various domains. For complex tasks such as diagnostic report generation, deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Pu Yang , Bin Dong

Is basic visual understanding really solved in state-of-the-art VLMs? We present VisualOverload, a slightly different visual question answering (VQA) benchmark comprising 2,720 question-answer pairs, with privately held ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Paul Gavrikov , Wei Lin , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Soumya Jahagirdar , Muhammad Huzaifa , Sivan Doveh , Serena Yeung-Levy , James Glass , Hilde Kuehne

Generalist visual captioning goes beyond a simple appearance description task, but requires integrating a series of visual cues into a caption and handling various visual domains. In this task, current open-source models present a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zhenxin Lei , Zhangwei Gao , Changyao Tian , Erfei Cui , Guanzhou Chen , Danni Yang , Yuchen Duan , Zhaokai Wang , Wenhao Li , Weiyun Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Jiayi Ji , Yu Qiao , Wenhai Wang , Gen Luo

Existing video captioning methods struggle to balance visual fidelity and redundancy: holistic captions are compact but lose fine-grained evidence, whereas segment-wise captions improve coverage but introduce heavy redundancy. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zihan Lin , Songhe Deng , Shuwei He , Danxiang Zhu , Dan Zhang , Yishu Lei , Xianlong Luo , Shikun Feng , Rui Liu

This paper establishes a formal information-theoretic framework for image captioning, conceptualizing captions as compressed linguistic representations that selectively encode semantic units in images. Our framework posits that good image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Delong Chen , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Etsuko Ishii , Ho Shu Chan , Yejin Bang , Pascale Fung

Benefiting from strong and efficient multi-modal alignment strategies, Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) are able to simulate human visual and reasoning capabilities, such as solving CAPTCHAs. However, existing benchmarks based on visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jianyi Zhang , Ziyin Zhou , Xu Ji , Shizhao Liu , Zhangchi Zhao

Image captioning is one of the most fundamental tasks in computer vision. Owing to its open-ended nature, it has received significant attention in the era of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). In pursuit of ever more detailed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shaokai Ye , Vasileios Saveris , Yihao Qian , Jiaming Hu , Elmira Amirloo , Peter Grasch

Real-world clinical practice demands multi-image comparative reasoning, yet current medical benchmarks remain limited to single-frame interpretation. We present MedFrameQA, the first benchmark explicitly designed to test multi-image medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Suhao Yu , Haojin Wang , Juncheng Wu , Luyang Luo , Jingshen Wang , Cihang Xie , Pranav Rajpurkar , Carl Yang , Yang Yang , Kang Wang , Yannan Yu , Yuyin Zhou

Aesthetic assessment of images can be categorized into two main forms: numerical assessment and language assessment. Aesthetics caption of photographs is the only task of aesthetic language assessment that has been addressed. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xin Jin , Wu Zhou , Xinghui Zhou , Shuai Cui , Le Zhang , Jianwen Lv , Shu Zhao

Current deep learning models often achieve excellent results on benchmark image-to-text datasets but fail to generate texts that are useful in practice. We argue that to close this gap, it is vital to distinguish descriptions from captions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Elisa Kreiss , Fei Fang , Noah D. Goodman , Christopher Potts

Question Answering (QA) on narrative text poses a unique challenge to current systems, requiring a deep understanding of long, complex documents. However, the reliability of NarrativeQA, the most widely used benchmark in this domain, is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Tommaso Bonomo , Luca Gioffré , Roberto Navigli

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

The rapid advancement of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has expanded their capabilities beyond high-level vision tasks. Nevertheless, their potential for Document Image Quality Assessment (DIQA) remains underexplored. To bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiaxi Huang , Dongxu Wu , Hanwei Zhu , Lingyu Zhu , Jun Xing , Xu Wang , Baoliang Chen

Generating a description of an image is called image captioning. Image captioning requires to recognize the important objects, their attributes and their relationships in an image. It also needs to generate syntactically and semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Md. Zakir Hossain , Ferdous Sohel , Mohd Fairuz Shiratuddin , Hamid Laga

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are evaluated on various benchmarks, such as image captioning, visual question answering, and reasoning. However, many of these benchmarks include overly simple or uninformative samples, complicating…

Controllable image captioning is an emerging multimodal topic that aims to describe the image with natural language following human purpose, $\textit{e.g.}$, looking at the specified regions or telling in a particular text style.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Teng Wang , Jinrui Zhang , Junjie Fei , Hao Zheng , Yunlong Tang , Zhe Li , Mingqi Gao , Shanshan Zhao

In the era of evolving artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly emulating human-like capabilities, including visual perception and linguistic expression. Image captioning stands at the intersection of these domains, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Hrishikesh Singh , Aarti Sharma , Millie Pant

We propose OmniCaptioner, a versatile visual captioning framework for generating fine-grained textual descriptions across a wide variety of visual domains. Unlike prior methods limited to specific image types (e.g., natural images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yiting Lu , Jiakang Yuan , Zhen Li , Shitian Zhao , Qi Qin , Xinyue Li , Le Zhuo , Licheng Wen , Dongyang Liu , Yuewen Cao , Xiangchao Yan , Xin Li , Tianshuo Peng , Shufei Zhang , Botian Shi , Tao Chen , Zhibo Chen , Lei Bai , Peng Gao , Bo Zhang

Systems such as video chatbots and navigation robots often depend on streaming image captioning to interpret visual inputs. Existing approaches typically employ large multimodal language models (MLLMs) for this purpose, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Junha Song , Yongsik Jo , So Yeon Min , Quanting Xie , Taehwan Kim , Yonatan Bisk , Jaegul Choo

Question-answering for domain-specific applications has recently attracted much interest due to the latest advancements in large language models (LLMs). However, accurately assessing the performance of these applications remains a…