A curated list of image captioning and related area. :-)
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- [Paper Name](link) - Author 1 et al, `Conference Year`. [[code]](link)- May 25 An up-to-date paper list about vision-and-language pre-training is available here.
- A Comprehensive Survey of Deep Learning for Image Captioning - Hossain M et al,
arXiv preprint 2018.
- I2t: Image parsing to text description - Yao B Z et al,
P IEEE 2011. - Im2Text: Describing Images Using 1 Million Captioned Photographs - Ordonez V et al,
NIPS 2011. [project web] - Deep Captioning with Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks - Mao J et al,
arXiv preprint 2014.
- Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator - Vinyals O et al,
CVPR 2015. [code] [code] - Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions - Karpathy A et al,
CVPR 2015. [project web] [code] - Mind’s Eye: A Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation - Chen X et al,
CVPR 2015. - Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description - Donahue J et al,
CVPR 2015. [code] [project web]
- Guiding the Long-Short Term Memory Model for Image Caption Generation - Jia X et al,
ICCV 2015. - Learning like a Child: Fast Novel Visual Concept Learning from Sentence Descriptions of Images - Mao J et al,
ICCV 2015. [code]
- Expressing an Image Stream with a Sequence of Natural Sentences - Park C C et al,
NIPS 2015. [code]
- Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention - Xu K et al,
ICML 2015. [project] [code] [code]
- Order-Embeddings of Images and Language - Vendrov I et al,
arXiv preprint 2015. [code] - Generating Images from Captions with Attention - Mansimov E et al,
arXiv preprint 2015. [code] - Learning FRAME Models Using CNN Filters for Knowledge Visualization - Lu Y, et al,
arXiv preprint 2015. [code] - Aligning where to see and what to tell: image caption with region-based attention and scene factorization - Jin J et al,
arXiv preprint 2015.
- Image captioning with semantic attention - You Q et al,
CVPR 2016. [code] - DenseCap: Fully Convolutional Localization Networks for Dense Captioning - Johnson J et al,
CVPR 2016. [code] - What value do explicit high level concepts have in vision to language problems? - Wu Q et al,
CVPR 2016. - Deep Compositional Captioning: Describing Novel Object Categories without Paired Training Data - Lisa Anne Hendricks et al,
CVPR 2016. [code] - SPICE: Semantic Propositional Image Caption Evaluation - Anderson P et al,
ECCV 2016. [code]
- Image Captioning with Deep Bidirectional LSTMs - Wang C et al,
ACMMM 2016. [code]
- Multimodal Pivots for Image Caption Translation - Hitschler J et al,
ACL 2016.
- Image Caption Generation with Text-Conditional Semantic Attention - Zhou L et al,
arXiv preprint 2016. [code] - DeepDiary: Automatic Caption Generation for Lifelogging Image Streams - Fan C et al,
arXiv preprint 2016. - Learning to generalize to new compositions in image understanding - Atzmon Y et al,
arXiv preprint 2016. - Generating captions without looking beyond objects - Heuer H et al,
arXiv preprint 2016. - Bootstrap, Review, Decode: Using Out-of-Domain Textual Data to Improve Image Captioning - Chen W et al,
arXiv preprint 2016. [code] - Recurrent Image Captioner: Describing Images with Spatial-Invariant Transformation and Attention Filtering - Liu H et al,
arXiv preprint 2016. - Recurrent Highway Networks with Language CNN for Image Captioning - Gu J et al,
arXiv preprint 2016.
- Captioning Images with Diverse Objects - Venugopalan S et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - Top-down Visual Saliency Guided by Captions - Ramanishka V et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - Self-Critical Sequence Training for Image Captioning - Steven J et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - Dense Captioning with Joint Inference and Visual Context - Yang L et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - Skeleton Key: Image Captioning by Skeleton-Attribute Decomposition - Yufei W et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - A Hierarchical Approach for Generating Descriptive Image Paragraphs - Krause J et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Image Captioning with Embedding Reward - Ren Z et al,
CVPR 2017. - Incorporating Copying Mechanism in Image Captioning for Learning Novel Objects - Ting Y et al,
CVPR 2017. - Knowing When to Look: Adaptive Attention via A Visual Sentinel for Image Captioning - Lu J et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - Attend to You: Personalized Image Captioning with Context Sequence Memory Networks - CC Park et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - SCA-CNN: Spatial and channel-wise attention in convolutional networks for image captioning - Chen L et al,
CVPR 2017. [code] - Bidirectional Beam Search: Forward-Backward Inference in Neural Sequence Models for Fill-In-The-Blank Image Captioning - Qing S et al,
CVPR 2017.
- Areas of Attention for Image Captioning - Pedersoli M et al,
ICCV 2017. - Boosting Image Captioning with Attributes - Yao T et al,
ICCV 2017. - An Empirical Study of Language CNN for Image Captioning - Gu J et al,
ICCV 2017. - Improved Image Captioning via Policy Gradient Optimization of SPIDEr - Liu S et al,
ICCV 2017. - Towards Diverse and Natural Image Descriptions via a Conditional GAN - Dai B et al,
ICCV 2017. [code] - Paying Attention to Descriptions Generated by Image Captioning Models - Tavakoliy H R et al,
ICCV 2017. - Show, Adapt and Tell: Adversarial Training of Cross-domain Image Captioner - Chen T H et al,
ICCV 2017. [code]
- Image Caption with Global-Local Attention - Li L et al,
AAAI 2017. - Reference Based LSTM for Image Captioning - Chen M et al,
AAAI 2017. - Attention Correctness in Neural Image Captioning - Liu C et al,
AAAI 2017. - Text-guided Attention Model for Image Captioning - Mun J et al,
AAAI 2017. [code]
- Contrastive Learning for Image Captioning - Dai B et al,
NIPS 2017. [code]
- Show and Tell: Lessons learned from the 2015 MSCOCO Image Captioning Challenge - Vinyals O et al,
TPAMI 2017. [code]
- MAT: A Multimodal Attentive Translator for Image Captioning - Liu C et al,
arXiv preprint 2017. - Actor-Critic Sequence Training for Image Captioning - Zhang L et al,
arXiv preprint 2017. - What is the Role of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in an Image Caption Generator? - Tanti M et al,
arXiv preprint 2017. [code] - Self-Guiding Multimodal LSTM - when we do not have a perfect training dataset for image captioning - Xian Y et al,
arXiv preprint 2017. - Phrase-based Image Captioning with Hierarchical LSTM Model - Tan Y H et al,
arXiv preprint 2017. - Show-and-Fool: Crafting Adversarial Examples for Neural Image Captioning - Chen H et al,
arXiv preprint 2017.
- Neural Baby Talk - Lu J et al,
CVPR 2018. [code] - Convolutional Image Captioning - Aneja J et al,
CVPR 2018. - Learning to Evaluate Image Captioning - Cui Y et al,
CVPR 2018. [code] - Discriminability Objective for Training Descriptive Captions - Luo R et al,
CVPR 2018. [code] - SemStyle: Learning to Generate Stylised Image Captions using Unaligned Text - Mathews A et al,
CVPR 2018. - Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering - Anderson P et al,
CVPR 2018. [code] - GroupCap: Group-Based Image Captioning With Structured Relevance and Diversity Constraints
- Chen F et al,
CVPR 2018.
- Unpaired Image Captioning by Language Pivoting - Gu J et al,
ECCV 2018. - Recurrent Fusion Network for Image Captioning - Jiang W et al,
ECCV 2018. - Exploring Visual Relationship for Image Captioning - Yao T et al,
ECCV 2018. - Rethinking the Form of Latent States in Image Captioning - Dai B et al,
ECCV 2018. [code] - Boosted Attention: Leveraging Human Attention for Image Captioning - Chen S et al,
ECCV 2018. - "Factual" or "Emotional": Stylized Image Captioning with Adaptive Learning and Attention - Chen T et al,
ECCV 2018.
- Learning to Guide Decoding for Image Captioning - Jiang W et al,
AAAI 2018. - Stack-Captioning: Coarse-to-Fine Learning for Image Captioning - Gu J et al,
AAAI 2018. [code] - Temporal-difference Learning with Sampling Baseline for Image Captioning - Chen H et al,
AAAI 2018.
- Partially-Supervised Image Captioning - Anderson P et al,
NeurIPS 2018. - A Neural Compositional Paradigm for Image Captioning - Dai B et al,
NeurIPS 2018.
- Defoiling Foiled Image Captions - Wang J et al,
NAACL 2018. - Punny Captions: Witty Wordplay in Image Descriptions - Chandrasekaran A et al,
NAACL 2018. [code] - Object Counts! Bringing Explicit Detections Back into Image Captioning - Aneja J et al,
NAACL 2018.
- Conceptual Captions: A Cleaned, Hypernymed, Image Alt-text Dataset For Automatic Image Captioning - Sharma P et al,
ACL 2018. [code] - Attacking visual language grounding with adversarial examples: A case study on neural image captioning - Chen H et al,
ACL 2018. [code]
- simNet: Stepwise Image-Topic Merging Network for Generating Detailed and Comprehensive Image Captions - Liu et al,
EMNLP 2018. [code]
- Improved Image Captioning with Adversarial Semantic Alignment - Melnyk I et al,
arXiv preprint 2018. - Improving Image Captioning with Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets - Chen C et al,
arXiv preprint 2018. - CNN+CNN: Convolutional Decoders for Image Captioning - Wang Q et al,
arXiv preprint 2018. - Diverse and Controllable Image Captioning with Part-of-Speech Guidance - Deshpande A et al,
arXiv preprint 2018.
- Unsupervised Image Captioning - Yang F et al,
CVPR 2019. [code] - Engaging Image Captioning Via Personality - Shuster K et al,
CVPR 2019. - Pointing Novel Objects in Image Captioning - Li Y et al,
CVPR 2019. - Auto-Encoding Scene Graphs for Image Captioning - Yang X et al,
CVPR 2019. - Context and Attribute Grounded Dense Captioning - Yin G et al,
CVPR 2019. - Look Back and Predict Forward in Image Captioning - Qin Y et al,
CVPR 2019. - Self-critical n-step Training for Image Captioning - Gao J et al,
CVPR 2019. - Intention Oriented Image Captions with Guiding Objects - Zheng Y et al,
CVPR 2019. - Describing like humans: on diversity in image captioning - Wang Q et al,
CVPR 2019. - Adversarial Semantic Alignment for Improved Image Captions - Dognin P et al,
CVPR 2019. - MSCap: Multi-Style Image Captioning With Unpaired Stylized Text - Gao L et al,
CVPR 2019. - Fast, Diverse and Accurate Image Captioning Guided By Part-of-Speech - Aditya D et al,
CVPR 2019. - Good News, Everyone! Context driven entity-aware captioning for news images - Biten A F et al,
CVPR 2019. [code] - CapSal: Leveraging Captioning to Boost Semantics for Salient Object Detection - Zhang L et al,
CVPR 2019. [code] - Dense Relational Captioning: Triple-Stream Networks for Relationship-Based Captioning - Kim D et al,
CVPR 2019. [code] - Show, Control and Tell: A Framework for Generating Controllable and Grounded Captions - Cornia M et al,
CVPR 2019. [code] - Exact Adversarial Attack to Image Captioning via Structured Output Learning With Latent Variables - Xu Y et al,
CVPR 2019.
- Meta Learning for Image Captioning - Li N et al,
AAAI 2019. - Learning Object Context for Dense Captioning - Li X et al,
AAAI 2019. - Hierarchical Attention Network for Image Captioning - Wang W et al,
AAAI 2019. - Deliberate Residual based Attention Network for Image Captioning - Gao L et al,
AAAI 2019. - Improving Image Captioning with Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets - Chen C et al,
AAAI 2019. - Connecting Language to Images: A Progressive Attention-Guided Network for Simultaneous Image Captioning and Language Grounding - Song L et al,
AAAI 2019.
- Dense Procedure Captioning in Narrated Instructional Videos - Shi B et al,
ACL 2019. - Informative Image Captioning with External Sources of Information - Zhao S et al,
ACL 2019. - Bridging by Word: Image Grounded Vocabulary Construction for Visual Captioning - Fan Z et al,
ACL 2019.
- Image Captioning with Unseen Objects - Demirel et al,
BMVC 2019. - Look and Modify: Modification Networks for Image Captioning - Sammani et al,
BMVC 2019. [code] - Show, Infer and Tell: Contextual Inference for Creative Captioning - Khare et al,
BMVC 2019. [code] - SC-RANK: Improving Convolutional Image Captioning with Self-Critical Learning and Ranking Metric-based Reward - Yan et al,
BMVC 2019.
- Hierarchy Parsing for Image Captioning - Yao T et al,
ICCV 2019. - Entangled Transformer for Image Captioning - Li G et al,
ICCV 2019. - Attention on Attention for Image Captioning - Huang L et al,
ICCV 2019. [code] - Reflective Decoding Network for Image Captioning - Ke L at al,
ICCV 2019. - Learning to Collocate Neural Modules for Image Captioning - Yang X et al,
ICCV 2019.
- Image Captioning: Transforming Objects into Words - Herdade S et al,
NeurIPS 2019. - Adaptively Aligned Image Captioning via Adaptive Attention Time - Huang L et al,
NeurIPS 2019. [code] - Variational Structured Semantic Inference for Diverse Image Captioning - Chen F et al,
NeurIPS 2019. - Aligning Visual Regions and Textual Concepts for Semantic-Grounded Image Representations - Liu F et al,
NeurIPS 2019. [code]
- Image Captioning with Compositional Neural Module Networks - Tian J et al,
IJCAI 2019. - Exploring and Distilling Cross-Modal Information for Image Captioning - Liu F et al,
IJCAI 2019. - Swell-and-Shrink: Decomposing Image Captioning by Transformation and Summarization - Wang H et al,
IJCAI 2019. - Hornet: a hierarchical offshoot recurrent network for improving person re-ID via image captioning - Yan S et al,
IJCAI 2019.
- Image Captioning with Very Scarce Supervised Data: Adversarial Semi-Supervised Learning Approach - Kim D J et al,
EMNLP 2019. - TIGEr: Text-to-Image Grounding for Image Caption Evaluation - Jiang M et al,
EMNLP 2019. - REO-Relevance, Extraness, Omission: A Fine-grained Evaluation for Image Captioning - Jiang M et al,
EMNLP 2019. - Decoupled Box Proposal and Featurization with Ultrafine-Grained Semantic Labels Improve Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering - Changpinyo S et al,
EMNLP 2019.
- Compositional Generalization in Image Captioning - Nikolaus M et al,
CoNLL 2019. [code]
- MemCap: Memorizing Style Knowledge for Image Captioning - Zhao et al,
AAAI 2020. - Unified Vision-Language Pre-Training for Image Captioning and VQA - Zhou L et al,
AAAI 2020. - Show, Recall, and Tell: Image Captioning with Recall Mechanism - Wang L et al,
AAAI 2020. - Reinforcing an Image Caption Generator using Off-line Human Feedback - Hongsuck Seo P et al,
AAAI 2020. - Interactive Dual Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Captioning - Liu et al,
AAAI 2020. - Feature Deformation Meta-Networks in Image Captioning of Novel Objects - Cao et al,
AAAI 2020. - Joint Commonsense and Relation Reasoning for Image and Video Captioning - Hou et al,
AAAI 2020. - Learning Long- and Short-Term User Literal-Preference with Multimodal Hierarchical Transformer Network
for Personalized Image Caption - Zhang et al,
AAAI 2020.
- Normalized and Geometry-Aware Self-Attention Network for Image Captioning - Guo L et al,
CVPR 2020. - Object Relational Graph with Teacher-Recommended Learning for Video Captioning - Zhang Z et al,
CVPR 2020. - Say As You Wish: Fine-grained Control of Image Caption Generation with Abstract Scene Graphs - Chen S et al,
CVPR 2020. - X-Linear Attention Networks for Image Captioning - Pan et al,
CVPR 2020.
- Improving Image Captioning with Better Use of Caption - Shi Z et al,
ACL 2020. - Cross-modal Coherence Modeling for Caption Generation - Alikhani M et al,
ACL 2020. - Improving Image Captioning Evaluation by Considering Inter References Variance - Yi Y et al,
ACL 2020. - MART: Memory-Augmented Recurrent Transformer for Coherent Video Paragraph Captioning - Lei J et al,
ACL 2020. - Dense-Caption Matching and Frame-Selection Gating for Temporal Localization in VideoQA - Kim H et al,
ACL 2020.
- Length-Controllable Image Captioning - Deng C et al,
ECCV 2020. - Captioning Images Taken by People Who Are Blind - Gurari D et al,
ECCV 2020. - Towards Unique and Informative Captioning of Images - Wang Z et al,
ECCV 2020. - Learning Visual Representations with Caption Annotations - Sariyildiz M et al,
ECCV 2020. - Comprehensive Image Captioning via Scene Graph Decomposition - Zhong Y et al,
ECCV 2020. - SODA: Story Oriented Dense Video Captioning Evaluation Framework - Fujita S et al,
ECCV 2020. - TextCaps: a Dataset for Image Captioning with Reading Comprehension - Sidorov O et al,
ECCV 2020. - Compare and Reweight: Distinctive Image Captioning Using Similar Images Sets - Wang J et al,
ECCV 2020. - Learning to Generate Grounded Visual Captions without Localization Supervision - Ma C et al,
ECCV 2020. - Fashion Captioning: Towards Generating Accurate Descriptions with Semantic Rewards - Yang X et al,
ECCV 2020. - Learning Modality Interaction for Temporal Sentence Localization and Event Captioning in Videos - Chen S et al,
ECCV 2020.
- CapWAP: Image Captioning with a Purpose - Fisch A et al,
EMNLP 2020. - X-LXMERT: Paint, Caption and Answer Questions with Multi-Modal Transformers - Cho J et al,
EMNLP 2020. - Video2Commonsense: Generating Commonsense Descriptions to Enrich Video Captioning - Fang Z et al,
EMNLP 2020. - Widget Captioning: Generating Natural Language Description for Mobile User Interface Elements - Li Y et al,
EMNLP 2020.
- Diverse Image Captioning with Context-Object Split Latent Spaces - Mahajan S et al,
NeurIPS 2020. - RATT: Recurrent Attention to Transient Tasks for Continual Image Captioning - Chiaro R et al,
NeurIPS 2020.
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English - MS COCO, LANG:
English. - Flickr 8k, LANG:
English. - Flickr 30k, LANG:
English. - AI Challenger, LANG:
Chinese. - Visual Genome, LANG:
English. - SBUCaptionedPhotoDataset, LANG:
English. - IAPR TC-12, LANG:
English, German and Spanish.
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