A Video Captioning Method by Semantic Topic-Guided Generation

In the video captioning methods based on an encoder-decoder,limited visual features are extracted by an encoder,and a natural sentence of the video content is generated using a decoder.However,this kind ofmethod is dependent on a single video input source and few visual labels,and there is a problem with semantic alignment between video contents and generated natural sentences,which are not suitable for accurately comprehending and describing the video contents.To address this issue,this paper proposes a video captioning method by semantic topic-guided generation.First,a 3D convolutional neural network is utilized to extract the spatiotemporal features of videos during the encoding.Then,the semantic topics of video data are extracted using the visual labels retrieved from similar video data.In the decoding,a decoder is constructed by combining a novel Enhance-TopK sampling algorithm with a Generative Pre-trained Transformer-2 deep neural network,which decreases the influence of“deviation”in the semantic mapping process between videos and texts by jointly decoding a baseline and semantic topics of video contents.During this process,the designed Enhance-TopK sampling algorithm can alleviate a long-tail problem by dynamically adjusting the probability distribution of the predicted words.Finally,the experiments are conducted on two publicly used Microsoft Research Video Description andMicrosoft Research-Video to Text datasets.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms several state-of-art approaches.Specifically,the performance indicators Bilingual Evaluation Understudy,Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit Ordering,Recall Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation-longest common subsequence,and Consensus-based Image Description Evaluation of the proposed method are improved by 1.2%,0.1%,0.3%,and 2.4% on the Microsoft Research Video Description dataset,and 0.1%,1.0%,0.1%,and 2.8% on the Microsoft Research-Video to Text dataset,respectively,compared with the existing video captioning methods.As a result,the proposed method can generate video captioning that is more closely aligned with human natural language expression habits.

A Concise and Varied Visual Features-Based Image Captioning Model with Visual Selection

Image captioning has gained increasing attention in recent years.Visual characteristics found in input images play a crucial role in generating high-quality captions.Prior studies have used visual attention mechanisms to dynamically focus on localized regions of the input image,improving the effectiveness of identifying relevant image regions at each step of caption generation.However,providing image captioning models with the capability of selecting the most relevant visual features from the input image and attending to them can significantly improve the utilization of these features.Consequently,this leads to enhanced captioning network performance.In light of this,we present an image captioning framework that efficiently exploits the extracted representations of the image.Our framework comprises three key components:the Visual Feature Detector module(VFD),the Visual Feature Visual Attention module(VFVA),and the language model.The VFD module is responsible for detecting a subset of the most pertinent features from the local visual features,creating an updated visual features matrix.Subsequently,the VFVA directs its attention to the visual features matrix generated by the VFD,resulting in an updated context vector employed by the language model to generate an informative description.Integrating the VFD and VFVA modules introduces an additional layer of processing for the visual features,thereby contributing to enhancing the image captioning model’s performance.Using the MS-COCO dataset,our experiments show that the proposed framework competes well with state-of-the-art methods,effectively leveraging visual representations to improve performance.The implementation code can be found here:https://github.com/althobhani/VFDICM(accessed on 30 July 2024).

VLCA: vision-language aligning model with cross-modal attention for bilingual remote sensing image captioning

In the field of satellite imagery, remote sensing image captioning(RSIC) is a hot topic with the challenge of overfitting and difficulty of image and text alignment. To address these issues, this paper proposes a vision-language aligning paradigm for RSIC to jointly represent vision and language. First, a new RSIC dataset DIOR-Captions is built for augmenting object detection in optical remote(DIOR) sensing images dataset with manually annotated Chinese and English contents. Second, a Vision-Language aligning model with Cross-modal Attention(VLCA) is presented to generate accurate and abundant bilingual descriptions for remote sensing images. Third, a crossmodal learning network is introduced to address the problem of visual-lingual alignment. Notably, VLCA is also applied to end-toend Chinese captions generation by using the pre-training language model of Chinese. The experiments are carried out with various baselines to validate VLCA on the proposed dataset. The results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is more descriptive and informative than existing algorithms in producing captions.

Traffic Scene Captioning with Multi-Stage Feature Enhancement

Traffic scene captioning technology automatically generates one or more sentences to describe the content of traffic scenes by analyzing the content of the input traffic scene images,ensuring road safety while providing an important decision-making function for sustainable transportation.In order to provide a comprehensive and reasonable description of complex traffic scenes,a traffic scene semantic captioningmodel withmulti-stage feature enhancement is proposed in this paper.In general,the model follows an encoder-decoder structure.First,multilevel granularity visual features are used for feature enhancement during the encoding process,which enables the model to learn more detailed content in the traffic scene image.Second,the scene knowledge graph is applied to the decoding process,and the semantic features provided by the scene knowledge graph are used to enhance the features learned by the decoder again,so that themodel can learn the attributes of objects in the traffic scene and the relationships between objects to generate more reasonable captions.This paper reports extensive experiments on the challenging MS-COCO dataset,evaluated by five standard automatic evaluation metrics,and the results show that the proposed model has improved significantly in all metrics compared with the state-of-the-art methods,especially achieving a score of 129.0 on the CIDEr-D evaluation metric,which also indicates that the proposed model can effectively provide a more reasonable and comprehensive description of the traffic scene.

Natural Language Processing with Optimal Deep Learning-Enabled Intelligent Image Captioning System

The recent developments in Multimedia Internet of Things(MIoT)devices,empowered with Natural Language Processing(NLP)model,seem to be a promising future of smart devices.It plays an important role in industrial models such as speech understanding,emotion detection,home automation,and so on.If an image needs to be captioned,then the objects in that image,its actions and connections,and any silent feature that remains under-projected or missing from the images should be identified.The aim of the image captioning process is to generate a caption for image.In next step,the image should be provided with one of the most significant and detailed descriptions that is syntactically as well as semantically correct.In this scenario,computer vision model is used to identify the objects and NLP approaches are followed to describe the image.The current study develops aNatural Language Processing with Optimal Deep Learning Enabled Intelligent Image Captioning System(NLPODL-IICS).The aim of the presented NLPODL-IICS model is to produce a proper description for input image.To attain this,the proposed NLPODL-IICS follows two stages such as encoding and decoding processes.Initially,at the encoding side,the proposed NLPODL-IICS model makes use of Hunger Games Search(HGS)with Neural Search Architecture Network(NASNet)model.This model represents the input data appropriately by inserting it into a predefined length vector.Besides,during decoding phase,Chimp Optimization Algorithm(COA)with deeper Long Short Term Memory(LSTM)approach is followed to concatenate the description sentences 4436 CMC,2023,vol.74,no.2 produced by the method.The application of HGS and COA algorithms helps in accomplishing proper parameter tuning for NASNet and LSTM models respectively.The proposed NLPODL-IICS model was experimentally validated with the help of two benchmark datasets.Awidespread comparative analysis confirmed the superior performance of NLPODL-IICS model over other models.

A Sentence Retrieval Generation Network Guided Video Captioning

Currently,the video captioning models based on an encoder-decoder mainly rely on a single video input source.The contents of video captioning are limited since few studies employed external corpus information to guide the generation of video captioning,which is not conducive to the accurate descrip-tion and understanding of video content.To address this issue,a novel video captioning method guided by a sentence retrieval generation network(ED-SRG)is proposed in this paper.First,a ResNeXt network model,an efficient convolutional network for online video understanding(ECO)model,and a long short-term memory(LSTM)network model are integrated to construct an encoder-decoder,which is utilized to extract the 2D features,3D features,and object features of video data respectively.These features are decoded to generate textual sentences that conform to video content for sentence retrieval.Then,a sentence-transformer network model is employed to retrieve different sentences in an external corpus that are semantically similar to the above textual sentences.The candidate sentences are screened out through similarity measurement.Finally,a novel GPT-2 network model is constructed based on GPT-2 network structure.The model introduces a designed random selector to randomly select predicted words with a high probability in the corpus,which is used to guide and generate textual sentences that are more in line with human natural language expressions.The proposed method in this paper is compared with several existing works by experiments.The results show that the indicators BLEU-4,CIDEr,ROUGE_L,and METEOR are improved by 3.1%,1.3%,0.3%,and 1.5%on a public dataset MSVD and 1.3%,0.5%,0.2%,1.9%on a public dataset MSR-VTT respectively.It can be seen that the proposed method in this paper can generate video captioning with richer semantics than several state-of-the-art approaches.

Fine-Grained Features for Image Captioning

Image captioning involves two different major modalities(image and sentence)that convert a given image into a language that adheres to visual semantics.Almost all methods first extract image features to reduce the difficulty of visual semantic embedding and then use the caption model to generate fluent sentences.The Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)is often used to extract image features in image captioning,and the use of object detection networks to extract region features has achieved great success.However,the region features retrieved by this method are object-level and do not pay attention to fine-grained details because of the detection model’s limitation.We offer an approach to address this issue that more properly generates captions by fusing fine-grained features and region features.First,we extract fine-grained features using a panoramic segmentation algorithm.Second,we suggest two fusion methods and contrast their fusion outcomes.An X-linear Attention Network(X-LAN)serves as the foundation for both fusion methods.According to experimental findings on the COCO dataset,the two-branch fusion approach is superior.It is important to note that on the COCO Karpathy test split,CIDEr is increased up to 134.3%in comparison to the baseline,highlighting the potency and viability of our method.

Red Deer Optimization with Artificial Intelligence Enabled Image Captioning System for Visually Impaired People

The problem of producing a natural language description of an image for describing the visual content has gained more attention in natural language processing(NLP)and computer vision(CV).It can be driven by applications like image retrieval or indexing,virtual assistants,image understanding,and support of visually impaired people(VIP).Though the VIP uses other senses,touch and hearing,for recognizing objects and events,the quality of life of those persons is lower than the standard level.Automatic Image captioning generates captions that will be read loudly to the VIP,thereby realizing matters happening around them.This article introduces a Red Deer Optimization with Artificial Intelligence Enabled Image Captioning System(RDOAI-ICS)for Visually Impaired People.The presented RDOAI-ICS technique aids in generating image captions for VIPs.The presented RDOAIICS technique utilizes a neural architectural search network(NASNet)model to produce image representations.Besides,the RDOAI-ICS technique uses the radial basis function neural network(RBFNN)method to generate a textual description.To enhance the performance of the RDOAI-ICS method,the parameter optimization process takes place using the RDO algorithm for NasNet and the butterfly optimization algorithm(BOA)for the RBFNN model,showing the novelty of the work.The experimental evaluation of the RDOAI-ICS method can be tested using a benchmark dataset.The outcomes show the enhancements of the RDOAI-ICS method over other recent Image captioning approaches.

Enhanced Image Captioning Using Features Concatenation and Efficient Pre-Trained Word Embedding

One of the issues in Computer Vision is the automatic development of descriptions for images,sometimes known as image captioning.Deep Learning techniques have made significant progress in this area.The typical architecture of image captioning systems consists mainly of an image feature extractor subsystem followed by a caption generation lingual subsystem.This paper aims to find optimized models for these two subsystems.For the image feature extraction subsystem,the research tested eight different concatenations of pairs of vision models to get among them the most expressive extracted feature vector of the image.For the caption generation lingual subsystem,this paper tested three different pre-trained language embedding models:Glove(Global Vectors for Word Representation),BERT(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers),and TaCL(Token-aware Contrastive Learning),to select from them the most accurate pre-trained language embedding model.Our experiments showed that building an image captioning system that uses a concatenation of the two Transformer based models SWIN(Shiftedwindow)and PVT(PyramidVision Transformer)as an image feature extractor,combined with the TaCL language embedding model is the best result among the other combinations.

Oppositional Harris Hawks Optimization with Deep Learning-Based Image Captioning

Image Captioning is an emergent topic of research in the domain of artificial intelligence(AI).It utilizes an integration of Computer Vision(CV)and Natural Language Processing(NLP)for generating the image descriptions.Itfinds use in several application areas namely recommendation in editing applications,utilization in virtual assistance,etc.The development of NLP and deep learning(DL)modelsfind useful to derive a bridge among the visual details and textual semantics.In this view,this paper introduces an Oppositional Harris Hawks Optimization with Deep Learning based Image Captioning(OHHO-DLIC)technique.The OHHO-DLIC technique involves the design of distinct levels of pre-processing.Moreover,the feature extraction of the images is carried out by the use of EfficientNet model.Furthermore,the image captioning is performed by bidirectional long short term memory(BiLSTM)model,comprising encoder as well as decoder.At last,the oppositional Harris Hawks optimization(OHHO)based hyperparameter tuning process is performed for effectively adjusting the hyperparameter of the EfficientNet and BiLSTM models.The experimental analysis of the OHHO-DLIC technique is carried out on the Flickr 8k Dataset and a comprehensive comparative analysis highlighted the better performance over the recent approaches.

PCATNet: Position-Class Awareness Transformer for Image Captioning

Existing image captioning models usually build the relation between visual information and words to generate captions,which lack spatial infor-mation and object classes.To address the issue,we propose a novel Position-Class Awareness Transformer(PCAT)network which can serve as a bridge between the visual features and captions by embedding spatial information and awareness of object classes.In our proposal,we construct our PCAT network by proposing a novel Grid Mapping Position Encoding(GMPE)method and refining the encoder-decoder framework.First,GMPE includes mapping the regions of objects to grids,calculating the relative distance among objects and quantization.Meanwhile,we also improve the Self-attention to adapt the GMPE.Then,we propose a Classes Semantic Quantization strategy to extract semantic information from the object classes,which is employed to facilitate embedding features and refining the encoder-decoder framework.To capture the interaction between multi-modal features,we propose Object Classes Awareness(OCA)to refine the encoder and decoder,namely OCAE and OCAD,respectively.Finally,we apply GMPE,OCAE and OCAD to form various combinations and to complete the entire PCAT.We utilize the MSCOCO dataset to evaluate the performance of our method.The results demonstrate that PCAT outperforms the other competitive methods.

Visuals to Text:A Comprehensive Review on Automatic Image Captioning

Image captioning refers to automatic generation of descriptive texts according to the visual content of images.It is a technique integrating multiple disciplines including the computer vision(CV),natural language processing(NLP)and artificial intelligence.In recent years,substantial research efforts have been devoted to generate image caption with impressive progress.To summarize the recent advances in image captioning,we present a comprehensive review on image captioning,covering both traditional methods and recent deep learning-based techniques.Specifically,we first briefly review the early traditional works based on the retrieval and template.Then deep learning-based image captioning researches are focused,which is categorized into the encoder-decoder framework,attention mechanism and training strategies on the basis of model structures and training manners for a detailed introduction.After that,we summarize the publicly available datasets,evaluation metrics and those proposed for specific requirements,and then compare the state of the art methods on the MS COCO dataset.Finally,we provide some discussions on open challenges and future research directions.

A Position-Aware Transformer for Image Captioning

Image captioning aims to generate a corresponding description of an image.In recent years,neural encoder-decodermodels have been the dominant approaches,in which the Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)and Long Short TermMemory(LSTM)are used to translate an image into a natural language description.Among these approaches,the visual attention mechanisms are widely used to enable deeper image understanding through fine-grained analysis and even multiple steps of reasoning.However,most conventional visual attention mechanisms are based on high-level image features,ignoring the effects of other image features,and giving insufficient consideration to the relative positions between image features.In this work,we propose a Position-Aware Transformer model with image-feature attention and position-aware attention mechanisms for the above problems.The image-feature attention firstly extracts multi-level features by using Feature Pyramid Network(FPN),then utilizes the scaled-dot-product to fuse these features,which enables our model to detect objects of different scales in the image more effectivelywithout increasing parameters.In the position-aware attentionmechanism,the relative positions between image features are obtained at first,afterwards the relative positions are incorporated into the original image features to generate captions more accurately.Experiments are carried out on the MSCOCO dataset and our approach achieves competitive BLEU-4,METEOR,ROUGE-L,CIDEr scores compared with some state-of-the-art approaches,demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.

Improved image captioning with subword units training and transformer

Image captioning models typically operate with a fixed vocabulary,but captioning is an open-vocabulary problem.Existing work addresses the image captioning of out-of-vocabulary words by labeling it as unknown in a dictionary.In addition,recurrent neural network(RNN)and its variants used in the caption task have become a bottleneck for their generation quality and training time cost.To address these 2 essential problems,a simpler but more effective approach is proposed for generating open-vocabulary caption,long short-term memory(LSTM)unit is replaced with transformer as decoder for better caption quality and less training time.The effectiveness of different word segmentation vocabulary and generation improvement of transformer over LSTM is discussed and it is proved that the improved models achieve state-of-the-art performance for the MSCOCO2014 image captioning tasks over a back-off dictionary baseline model.

Efficient Image Captioning Based on Vision Transformer Models

Image captioning is an emerging field in machine learning.It refers to the ability to automatically generate a syntactically and semantically meaningful sentence that describes the content of an image.Image captioning requires a complex machine learning process as it involves two sub models:a vision sub-model for extracting object features and a language sub-model that use the extracted features to generate meaningful captions.Attention-based vision transformers models have a great impact in vision field recently.In this paper,we studied the effect of using the vision transformers on the image captioning process by evaluating the use of four different vision transformer models for the vision sub-models of the image captioning The first vision transformers used is DINO(self-distillation with no labels).The second is PVT(Pyramid Vision Transformer)which is a vision transformer that is not using convolutional layers.The third is XCIT(cross-Covariance Image Transformer)which changes the operation in self-attention by focusing on feature dimension instead of token dimensions.The last one is SWIN(Shifted windows),it is a vision transformer which,unlike the other transformers,uses shifted-window in splitting the image.For a deeper evaluation,the four mentioned vision transformers have been tested with their different versions and different configuration,we evaluate the use of DINO model with five different backbones,PVT with two versions:PVT_v1and PVT_v2,one model of XCIT,SWIN transformer.The results show the high effectiveness of using SWIN-transformer within the proposed image captioning model with regard to the other models.

A deep dense captioning framework with joint localization and contextual reasoning

Dense captioning aims to simultaneously localize and describe regions-of-interest(RoIs)in images in natural language.Specifically,we identify three key problems:1)dense and highly overlapping RoIs,making accurate localization of each target region challenging;2)some visually ambiguous target regions which are hard to recognize each of them just by appearance;3)an extremely deep image representation which is of central importance for visual recognition.To tackle these three challenges,we propose a novel end-to-end dense captioning framework consisting of a joint localization module,a contextual reasoning module and a deep convolutional neural network(CNN).We also evaluate five deep CNN structures to explore the benefits of each.Extensive experiments on visual genome(VG)dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach,which compares favorably with the state-of-the-art methods.

Low Complexity Encoder with Multilabel Classification and Image Captioning Model

Due to the advanced development in the multimedia-on-demandtraffic in different forms of audio, video, and images, has extremely movedon the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) from scalar to Internet ofMultimedia Things (IoMT). Since Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) generates a massive quantity of the multimedia data, it becomes a part of IoMT,which are commonly employed in diverse application areas, especially forcapturing remote sensing (RS) images. At the same time, the interpretationof the captured RS image also plays a crucial issue, which can be addressedby the multi-label classification and Computational Linguistics based imagecaptioning techniques. To achieve this, this paper presents an efficient lowcomplexity encoding technique with multi-label classification and image captioning for UAV based RS images. The presented model primarily involves thelow complexity encoder using the Neighborhood Correlation Sequence (NCS)with a burrows wheeler transform (BWT) technique called LCE-BWT forencoding the RS images captured by the UAV. The application of NCS greatlyreduces the computation complexity and requires fewer resources for imagetransmission. Secondly, deep learning (DL) based shallow convolutional neural network for RS image classification (SCNN-RSIC) technique is presentedto determine the multiple class labels of the RS image, shows the novelty ofthe work. Finally, the Computational Linguistics based Bidirectional EncoderRepresentations from Transformers (BERT) technique is applied for imagecaptioning, to provide a proficient textual description of the RS image. Theperformance of the presented technique is tested using the UCM dataset. Thesimulation outcome implied that the presented model has obtained effectivecompression performance, reconstructed image quality, classification results,and image captioning outcome.

Video Captioning人工智能技术在电视媒体中的应用

自二十世纪九十年代以来,我国电视媒体技术飞速发展。伴随着电视节目的种类及数量越来越多,为视频节目添加内容描述的工作日趋繁琐;另一方面,网络及自媒体的快速发展也伴随着媒体资源数量的急剧膨胀,电视节目如何快速,准确地从这些媒体资源中选出需要的材料也成为当今一大问题。本文探究了在当前人工智能大环境下,Video Captioning技术如何应用于电视节目中,并提出了端到端的系统解决方案,实现了大规模媒体内容的高质量,高效率的文字描述。

Application of Dual Attention Mechanism in Chinese Image Captioning

Objective: The Chinese description of images combines the two directions of computer vision and natural language processing. It is a typical representative of multi-mode and cross-domain problems with artificial intelligence algorithms. The image Chinese description model needs to output a Chinese description for each given test picture, describe the sentence requirements to conform to the natural language habits, and point out the important information in the image, covering the main characters, scenes, actions and other content. Since the current open source datasets are mostly in English, the research on the direction of image description is mainly in English. Chinese descriptions usually have greater flexibility in syntax and lexicalization, and the challenges of algorithm implementation are also large. Therefore, only a few people have studied image descriptions, especially Chinese descriptions. Methods: This study attempts to derive a model of image description generation from the Flickr8k-cn and Flickr30k-cn datasets. At each time period of the description, the model can decide whether to rely more on images or text information. The model captures more important information from the image to improve the richness and accuracy of the Chinese description of the image. The image description data set of this study is mainly composed of Chinese description sentences. The method consists of an encoder and a decoder. The encoder is based on a convolutional neural network. The decoder is based on a long-short memory network and is composed of a multi-modal summary generation network. Results: Experiments on Flickr8k-cn and Flickr30k-cn Chinese datasets show that the proposed method is superior to the existing Chinese abstract generation model. Conclusion: The method proposed in this paper is effective, and the performance has been greatly improved on the basis of the benchmark model. Compared with the existing Chinese abstract generation model, its performance is also superior. In the next step, more visual prior information will be incorporated into the model, such as the action category, the relationship between the object and the object, etc., to further improve the quality of the description sentence, and achieve the effect of “seeing the picture writing”.

Captioning Videos Using Large-Scale Image Corpus

Video captioning is the task of assigning complex high-level semantic descriptions （e.g., sentences or paragraphs） to video data. Different from previous video analysis techniques such as video annotation, video event detection and action recognition, video captioning is much closer to human cognition with smaller semantic gap. However, the scarcity of captioned video data severely limits the development of video captioning. In this paper, we propose a novel video captioning approach to describe videos by leveraging freely-available image corpus with abundant literal knowledge. There are two key aspects of our approach： 1） effective integration strategy bridging videos and images, and 2） high efficiency in handling ever-increasing training data. To achieve these goals, we adopt sophisticated visual hashing techniques to efficiently index and search large-scale images for relevant captions, which is of high extensibility to evolving data and the corresponding semantics. Extensive experimental results on various real-world visual datasets show the effectiveness of our approach with different hashing techniques, e.g., LSH （locality-sensitive hashing）, PCA-ITQ （principle component analysis iterative quantization） and supervised discrete hashing, as compared with the state-of-the-art methods. It is worth noting that the empirical computational cost of our approach is much lower than that of an existing method, i.e., it takes 1/256 of the memory requirement and 1/64 of the time cost of the method of Devlin et al.