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Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

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

Image captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions for input images in an open-form manner. To accurately generate descriptions related to the image, a critical step in image captioning is to identify objects and understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jinjing Gu , Tianbao Qin , Yuanyuan Pu , Zhengpeng Zhao

Image Captioning for state-of-the-art VLMs has significantly improved over time; however, this comes at the cost of increased computational complexity, making them less accessible for resource-constrained applications such as mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sania Waheed , Na Min An

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides by training on vast high-quality image-text datasets, enabling them to generally understand images well. However, the inherent difficulty in explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuanze Lin , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Weijian Xu , Ronald Clark , Philip Torr , Lu Yuan

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have become the standard approach for learning discriminative vision-language representations. However, these models often exhibit shallow language understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Ioanna Ntinou , Alexandros Xenos , Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Recent open-vocabulary detectors achieve promising performance with abundant region-level annotated data. In this work, we show that an open-vocabulary detector co-training with a large language model by generating image-level detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shenghao Fu , Qize Yang , Qijie Mo , Junkai Yan , Xihan Wei , Jingke Meng , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform well in single-image visual grounding but struggle with real-world tasks that demand cross-image reasoning and multi-modal instructions. To address this, we adopt a reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bob Zhang , Haoran Li , Tao Zhang , Jianan Li , Cilin Yan , Xikai Liu , Jiayin Cai , Yanbin Hao

Remote sensing has evolved from simple image acquisition to complex systems capable of integrating and processing visual and textual data. This review examines the development and application of multi-modal language models (MLLMs) in remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xintian Sun , Benji Peng , Charles Zhang , Fei Jin , Qian Niu , Junyu Liu , Keyu Chen , Ming Li , Pohsun Feng , Ziqian Bi , Ming Liu , Xinyuan Song , Yichao Zhang

Unpaired Image Captioning (UIC) has been developed to learn image descriptions from unaligned vision-language sample pairs. Existing works usually tackle this task using adversarial learning and visual concept reward based on reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Peipei Zhu , Xiao Wang , Lin Zhu , Zhenglong Sun , Weishi Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Changwen Chen

Inspired by recent development of artificial satellite, remote sensing images have attracted extensive attention. Recently, noticeable progress has been made in scene classification and target detection.However, it is still not clear how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Xiaoqiang Lu , Binqiang Wang , Xiangtao Zheng , Xuelong Li

An effective method for combining frozen large language models (LLM) and visual encoders involves a resampler module that creates a `visual prompt' which is provided to the LLM, along with the textual prompt. While this approach has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Alessandro Suglia , Oliver Lemon , Arash Eshghi

This paper describes our winning entry in the ImageCLEF 2015 image sentence generation task. We improve Google's CNN-LSTM model by introducing concept-based sentence reranking, a data-driven approach which exploits the large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Xirong Li , Qin Jin

Image captioning has emerged as a crucial task in the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling automated generation of descriptive text from visual content. In the context of remote sensing, image captioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Khang Truong , Lam Pham , Hieu Tang , Jasmin Lampert , Martin Boyer , Son Phan , Truong Nguyen

Image search stands as a pivotal task in multimedia and computer vision, finding applications across diverse domains, ranging from internet search to medical diagnostics. Conventional image search systems operate by accepting textual or…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Hongyi Zhu , Jia-Hong Huang , Stevan Rudinac , Evangelos Kanoulas

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various tasks such as image captioning and visual question answer(VQA); however, they often struggle to accurately interpret depth information inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hao Yang , Hongbo Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

Recent progress in VLMs has demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks in the natural image domain. Motivated by these advancements, the remote sensing community has begun to adopt VLMs for remote sensing vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Congcong Wen , Yiting Lin , Xiaokang Qu , Nan Li , Yong Liao , Xiang Li , Hui Lin

Visual-language pre-training has achieved remarkable success in many multi-modal tasks, largely attributed to the availability of large-scale image-text datasets. In this work, we demonstrate that Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yanqing Liu , Kai Wang , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Mike Zheng Shou , Kaipeng Zhang , Yang You

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

Low-shot image classification, where training images are limited or inaccessible, has benefited from recent progress on pre-trained vision-language (VL) models with strong generalizability, e.g. CLIP. Prompt learning methods built with VL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zhaoheng Zheng , Jingmin Wei , Xuefeng Hu , Haidong Zhu , Ram Nevatia