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Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lucrezia Tosato , Gianluca Lombardi , Ronny Hansch

Text-to-image models are powerful for producing high-quality images based on given text prompts, but crafting these prompts often requires specialized vocabulary. To address this, existing methods train rewriting models with supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hongji Yang , Yucheng Zhou , Wencheng Han , Jianbing Shen

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promise for image-based regression tasks, but current approaches face key limitations. Recent methods fine-tune MLLMs using preset output vocabularies and generic task-level prompts (e.g., "How…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Roy H. Jennings , Genady Paikin , Roy Shaul , Evgeny Soloveichik

We deal with the problem of generating textual captions from optical remote sensing (RS) images using the notion of deep reinforcement learning. Due to the high inter-class similarity in reference sentences describing remote sensing data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ruchika Chavhan , Biplab Banerjee , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Subhasis Chaudhuri

The creation of high-quality human-labeled image-caption datasets presents a significant bottleneck in the development of Visual-Language Models (VLMs). In this work, we investigate an approach that leverages the strengths of Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sahand Sharifzadeh , Christos Kaplanis , Shreya Pathak , Dharshan Kumaran , Anastasija Ilic , Jovana Mitrovic , Charles Blundell , Andrea Banino

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models like CLIP have significantly advanced Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR). However, existing methods predominantly rely on coarse-grained global alignment, which often overlooks the dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yifan Li , Shiying Wang , Jianqiang Huang

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…

Recent advances in prompt learning have allowed users to interact with artificial intelligence (AI) tools in multi-turn dialogue, enabling an interactive understanding of images. However, it is difficult and inefficient to deliver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Tong Zhang , Jun Li , Yin Zhuang , Xuerui Mao

Remote sensing change understanding (RSCU) is essential for analyzing remote sensing images and understanding how human activities affect the environment. However, existing datasets lack deep understanding and interactions in the diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Junxiao Xue , Quan Deng , Xuecheng Wu , Kelu Yao , Xinyi Yin , Fei Yu , Wei Zhou , Yanfei Zhong , Yang Liu , Dingkang Yang

Recent advancements in deep learning have driven significant progress in lossless image compression. With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs), preliminary attempts have been made to leverage the extensive prior knowledge embedded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Junhao Du , Chuqin Zhou , Ning Cao , Gang Chen , Yunuo Chen , Zhengxue Cheng , Li Song , Guo Lu , Wenjun Zhang

The development of foundation models through pretraining of vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted great attention in remote sensing (RS). VLM pretraining aims to learn image and language alignments from a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mathis Jürgen Adler , Leonard Hackel , Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir

Recent lightweight retrieval-augmented image caption models often utilize retrieved data solely as text prompts, thereby creating a semantic gap by leaving the original visual features unenhanced, particularly for object details or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Binbin Li , Guimiao Yang , Zisen Qi , Haiping Wang , Yu Ding

Image captioning is a fundamental task that bridges the visual and linguistic domains, playing a critical role in pre-training Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Current state-of-the-art captioning models are typically trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Long Xing , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Jianze Liang , Qidong Huang , Jiaqi Wang , Feng Wu , Dahua Lin

Vision-Language Models for remote sensing have shown promising uses thanks to their extensive pretraining. However, their conventional usage in zero-shot scene classification methods still involves dividing large images into patches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Karim El Khoury , Maxime Zanella , Benoît Gérin , Tiffanie Godelaine , Benoît Macq , Saïd Mahmoudi , Christophe De Vleeschouwer , Ismail Ben Ayed

Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims to articulate the changes in objects of interest within bi-temporal remote sensing images using natural language. Given the limitations of current RSICC methods in expressing general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongshuo Zhu , Lu Li , Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Fugen Zhou , Zhenwei Shi

The emergence of large-scale large language models, with GPT-4 as a prominent example, has significantly propelled the rapid advancement of artificial general intelligence and sparked the revolution of Artificial Intelligence 2.0. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yuan Hu , Jianlong Yuan , Congcong Wen , Xiaonan Lu , Xiang Li

Generating image descriptions in different languages is essential to satisfy users worldwide. However, it is prohibitively expensive to collect large-scale paired image-caption dataset for every target language which is critical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yuqing Song , Shizhe Chen , Yida Zhao , Qin Jin

Supervised visual captioning models typically require a large scale of images or videos paired with descriptions in a specific language (i.e., the vision-caption pairs) for training. However, collecting and labeling large-scale datasets is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Bang Yang , Fenglin Liu , Xian Wu , Yaowei Wang , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

We focus on domain and class generalization problems in analyzing optical remote sensing images, using the large-scale pre-trained vision-language model (VLM), CLIP. While contrastively trained VLMs show impressive zero-shot generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avigyan Bhattacharya , Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

The advent of vision-language pre-training techniques enhanced substantial progress in the development of models for image captioning. However, these models frequently produce generic captions and may omit semantically important image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Noam Rotstein , David Bensaid , Shaked Brody , Roy Ganz , Ron Kimmel