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We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

In traditional audio captioning methods, a model is usually trained in a fully supervised manner using a human-annotated dataset containing audio-text pairs and then evaluated on the test sets from the same dataset. Such methods have two…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yiming Zhang , Xuenan Xu , Ruoyi Du , Haohe Liu , Yuan Dong , Zheng-Hua Tan , Wenwu Wang , Zhanyu Ma

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

Automatically generating natural language descriptions from an image is a challenging problem in artificial intelligence that requires a good understanding of the visual and textual signals and the correlations between them. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Arushi Goel , Basura Fernando , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Hakan Bilen

Video captioning is an essential technology to understand scenes and describe events in natural language. To apply it to real-time monitoring, a system needs not only to describe events accurately but also to produce the captions as soon as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Chiori Hori , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

Image captioning systems often produce generic descriptions that fail to capture event-level semantics which are crucial for applications like news reporting and digital archiving. We present ReCap, a novel pipeline for event-enriched image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Thinh-Phuc Nguyen , Thanh-Hai Nguyen , Gia-Huy Dinh , Lam-Huy Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

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

Describing images in natural language is a fundamental step towards the automatic modeling of connections between the visual and textual modalities. In this paper we present CaMEL, a novel Transformer-based architecture for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Manuele Barraco , Matteo Stefanini , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

For video captioning, "pre-training and fine-tuning" has become a de facto paradigm, where ImageNet Pre-training (INP) is usually used to encode the video content, then a task-oriented network is fine-tuned from scratch to cope with caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Bang Yang , Tong Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Image captioning is a computer vision task that involves generating natural language descriptions for images. This method has numerous applications in various domains, including image retrieval systems, medicine, and various industries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sai Suprabhanu Nallapaneni , Subrahmanyam Konakanchi

In this paper we study a brand new topic of interactive image captioning with human in the loop. Different from automated image captioning where a given test image is the sole input in the inference stage, we have access to both the test…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Zhengxiong Jia , Xirong Li

Humans possess the capacity to reason about the future based on a sparse collection of visual cues acquired over time. In order to emulate this ability, we introduce a novel task called Anticipation Captioning, which generates a caption for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Duc Minh Vo , Quoc-An Luong , Akihiro Sugimoto , Hideki Nakayama

Image captioning requires numerous annotated image-text pairs, resulting in substantial annotation costs. Recently, large models (e.g. diffusion models and large language models) have excelled in producing high-quality images and text. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Feipeng Ma , Yizhou Zhou , Fengyun Rao , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

Visual recognition in a low-data regime is challenging and often prone to overfitting. To mitigate this issue, several data augmentation strategies have been proposed. However, standard transformations, e.g., rotation, cropping, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Aniket Roy , Anshul Shah , Ketul Shah , Anirban Roy , Rama Chellappa

Text-to-video generation has evolved rapidly in recent years, delivering remarkable results. Training typically relies on video-caption paired data, which plays a crucial role in enhancing generation performance. However, current video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Tiehan Fan , Kepan Nan , Rui Xie , Penghao Zhou , Zhenheng Yang , Chaoyou Fu , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Generating visually grounded image captions with specific linguistic styles using unpaired stylistic corpora is a challenging task, especially since we expect stylized captions with a wide variety of stylistic patterns. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Kanzhi Cheng , Zheng Ma , Shi Zong , Jianbing Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

With the rise of powerful pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP, it becomes essential to investigate ways to adapt these models to downstream datasets. A recently proposed method named Context Optimization (CoOp) introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Kaiyang Zhou , Jingkang Yang , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

While automated audio captioning (AAC) has made notable progress, traditional fully supervised AAC models still face two critical challenges: the need for expensive audio-text pair data for training and performance degradation when…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiquan Li , Wenxi Chen , Ziyang Ma , Xuenan Xu , Yuzhe Liang , Zhisheng Zheng , Qiuqiang Kong , Xie Chen

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

Image captioning is a task in the field of Artificial Intelligence that merges between computer vision and natural language processing. It is responsible for generating legends that describe images, and has various applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ahmed Elhagry , Karima Kadaoui