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Automated textual description of remote sensing images is crucial for unlocking their full potential in diverse applications, from environmental monitoring to urban planning and disaster management. However, existing studies in remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Kaiyu Li , Zixuan Jiang , Xiangyong Cao , Jiayu Wang , Yuchen Xiao , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang

Evaluating image captions requires cohesive assessment of both visual semantics and language pragmatics, which is often not entirely captured by most metrics. We introduce Redemption Score(RS), a novel hybrid framework that ranks image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ashim Dahal , Ankit Ghimire , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Image recaptioning is widely used to generate training datasets with enhanced quality for various multimodal tasks. Existing recaptioning methods typically rely on powerful multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to enhance textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yuchi Wang , Yishuo Cai , Shuhuai Ren , Sihan Yang , Linli Yao , Yuanxin Liu , Yuanxing Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xu Sun

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in interpreting remote sensing (RS) images through language-guided semantic. However, the effectiveness of these VLMs critically depends on high-quality image-text training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Dilxat Muhtar , Enzhuo Zhang , Zhenshi Li , Feng Gu , Yanglangxing He , Pengfeng Xiao , Xueliang Zhang

Effectively aligning with human judgment when evaluating machine-generated image captions represents a complex yet intriguing challenge. Existing evaluation metrics like CIDEr or CLIP-Score fall short in this regard as they do not take into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Automatically translating images to texts involves image scene understanding and language modeling. In this paper, we propose a novel model, termed RefineCap, that refines the output vocabulary of the language decoder using decoder-guided…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yekun Chai , Shuo Jin , Junliang Xing

General-purpose foundation models have led to recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. In remote sensing, self-supervised learning (SSL) and Masked Image Modeling (MIM) have been adopted to build foundation models. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Fan Liu , Delong Chen , Zhangqingyun Guan , Xiaocong Zhou , Jiale Zhu , Qiaolin Ye , Liyong Fu , Jun Zhou

Image captioning has long been regarded as a fundamental task in visual understanding. Recently, however, few large vision-language model (LVLM) research discusses model's image captioning performance because of the outdated short-caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hongyuan Dong , Jiawen Li , Bohong Wu , Jiacong Wang , Yuan Zhang , Haoyuan Guo

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

Remote Sensing Image Captioning (RSIC) is the process of generating meaningful descriptions from remote sensing images. Recently, it has gained significant attention, with encoder-decoder models serving as the backbone for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Swadhin Das , Saarthak Gupta , Kamal Kumar , Raksha Sharma

Remote Sensing Image Captioning (RSIC) presents unique challenges and plays a critical role in applications. Traditional RSIC methods often struggle to produce rich and diverse descriptions. Recently, with advancements in VLMs, efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hui Lin , Danfeng Hong , Shuhang Ge , Chuyao Luo , Kai Jiang , Hao Jin , Congcong Wen

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

Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning (RSICC) aims to generate natural language descriptions of surface changes between multi-temporal remote sensing images, detailing the categories, locations, and dynamics of changed objects (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zhiming Wang , Mingze Wang , Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Baochang Zhang

Image captioning and cross-modal retrieval are examples of tasks that involve the joint analysis of visual and linguistic information. In connection to remote sensing imagery, these tasks can help non-expert users in extracting relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 João Daniel Silva , João Magalhães , Devis Tuia , Bruno Martins

Though semantic segmentation has been heavily explored in vision literature, unique challenges remain in the remote sensing domain. One such challenge is how to handle resolution mismatch between overhead imagery and ground-truth label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Scott Workman , Armin Hadzic , M. Usman Rafique

Automatically generating descriptive captions for images is a well-researched area in computer vision. However, existing evaluation approaches focus on measuring the similarity between two sentences disregarding fine-grained semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Dan Zecha , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

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

Automatic image captioning is a promising technique for conveying visual information using natural language. It can benefit various tasks in satellite remote sensing, such as environmental monitoring, resource management, disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yingxu He , Qiqi Sun

Image captioning is conventionally formulated as the task of generating captions for images that match the distribution of reference image-caption pairs. However, reference captions in standard captioning datasets are short and may not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Simon Kornblith , Lala Li , Zirui Wang , Thao Nguyen