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The task of automated code review has recently gained a lot of attention from the machine learning community. However, current review comment evaluation metrics rely on comparisons with a human-written reference for a given code change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Atharva Naik , Marcus Alenius , Daniel Fried , Carolyn Rose

As a pivotal task that bridges remote visual and linguistic understanding, Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR) has attracted considerable research interest in recent years. However, almost all RSITR methods implicitly assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiya Song , Yiqiang Xie , Yuan Sun , Renwei Dian , Xudong Kang

Vision language models have achieved impressive results across various fields. However, adoption in remote sensing remains limited, largely due to the scarcity of paired image-text data. To bridge this gap, synthetic caption generation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Madeline Anderson , Miriam Cha , William T. Freeman , J. Taylor Perron , Nathaniel Maidel , Kerri Cahoy

Automatic image captioning evaluation is critical for benchmarking and promoting advances in image captioning research. Existing metrics only provide a single score to measure caption qualities, which are less explainable and informative.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Anwen Hu , Shizhe Chen , Liang Zhang , Qin Jin

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

Evaluating image captions without references remains challenging because global embedding similarity often misses fine-grained mismatches such as hallucinated objects, missing attributes, or incorrect relations. We propose MSD-Score, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shichao Kan , Xuyang Zhang , Haojie Zhang , Zhe Zhu , Yigang Cen , Yixiong Liang , Lianlei Shan , Linna Zhang , Zhe Qu , Jiazhi Xia

We introduce a method to train vision-language models for remote-sensing images without using any textual annotations. Our key insight is to use co-located internet imagery taken on the ground as an intermediary for connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Utkarsh Mall , Cheng Perng Phoo , Meilin Kelsey Liu , Carl Vondrick , Bharath Hariharan , Kavita Bala

Image captioning is the process of automatically generating a description of an image in natural language. Image captioning is one of the significant challenges in image understanding since it requires not only recognizing salient objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ghadah Alabduljabbar , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

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

Evaluating text-to-image generative models remains a challenge, despite the remarkable progress being made in their overall performances. While existing metrics like CLIPScore work for coarse evaluations, they lack the sensitivity to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Georgia Gabriela Sampaio , Ruixiang Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind , Navdeep Jaitly , Yizhe Zhang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong perception and reasoning performance on existing remote sensing (RS) benchmarks. However, most prior benchmarks rely on low-resolution imagery, and some high-resolution benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yunkai Dang , Meiyi Zhu , Donghao Wang , Yizhuo Zhang , Jiacheng Yang , Qi Fan , Yuekun Yang , Wenbin Li , Feng Miao , Yang Gao

Instruction-guided image editing has achieved remarkable progress, yet current models still face challenges with complex instructions and often require multiple samples to produce a desired result. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xin Luo , Jiahao Wang , Chenyuan Wu , Shitao Xiao , Xiyan Jiang , Defu Lian , Jiajun Zhang , Dong Liu , Zheng liu

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance across a broad range of multimodal tasks. However, robust image caption evaluation using LVLMs remains challenging, particularly under domain-shift scenarios. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nakamasa Inoue , Kanoko Goto , Masanari Oi , Martyna Gruszka , Mahiro Ukai , Takumi Hirose , Yusuke Sekikawa

Cross-lingual image captioning, with its ability to caption an unlabeled image in a target language other than English, is an emerging topic in the multimedia field. In order to save the precious human resource from re-writing reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Aozhu Chen , Xinyi Huang , Hailan Lin , Xirong Li

Recently it has been shown that policy-gradient methods for reinforcement learning can be utilized to train deep end-to-end systems directly on non-differentiable metrics for the task at hand. In this paper we consider the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Steven J. Rennie , Etienne Marcheret , Youssef Mroueh , Jarret Ross , Vaibhava Goel

Current metrics for video captioning are mostly based on the text-level comparison between reference and candidate captions. However, they have some insuperable drawbacks, e.g., they cannot handle videos without references, and they may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yaya Shi , Xu Yang , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Given the accelerating progress of vision and language modeling, accurate evaluation of machine-generated image captions remains critical. In order to evaluate captions more closely to human preferences, metrics need to discriminate between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Koki Maeda , Shuhei Kurita , Taiki Miyanishi , Naoaki Okazaki

Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in image captioning, visual question answering, and visual reasoning. Yet they remain prone to vision-language misalignment, often producing overly generic or hallucinated…

Recently, while significant progress has been made in remote sensing image change captioning, existing methods fail to filter out areas unrelated to actual changes, making models susceptible to irrelevant features. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Cong Yang , Zuchao Li , Hongzan Jiao , Zhi Gao , Lefei Zhang

Remote sensing scene classification (RSSC) is a critical task with diverse applications in land use and resource management. While unimodal image-based approaches show promise, they often struggle with limitations such as high intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinjin Cai , Kexin Meng , Baijian Yang , Gang Shao