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Y. Ming, N. N. Hu, C. X. Fan, F. Feng, J. W. Zhou, and H. Yu, “Visuals to text : A comprehensive review on automatic image captioning,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 1339–1365, Aug. 2022. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105734
Citation: Y. Ming, N. N. Hu, C. X. Fan, F. Feng, J. W. Zhou, and H. Yu, “Visuals to text : A comprehensive review on automatic image captioning,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 1339–1365, Aug. 2022. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105734
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Visuals to Text: A Comprehensive Review on Automatic Image Captioning

doi: 10.1109/JAS.2022.105734
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    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

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    School of Creative Technologies, University of Ports

Funds:  The work was supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China (L201023), and the Natural Science Foundation of China (62076030)
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    Abstract
  • 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.

     

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    • 1 We use the Flick8k dataset as the query corpus in this demo.
    2 https://cocodataset.org/3 https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/32214 https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1713398
    5 http://shannon.cs.illinois.edu/DenotationGraph/6 https://www.imageclef.org/photodata7 http://visualgenome.org/
    https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1713398
    http://shannon.cs.illinois.edu/DenotationGraph/
    8 https://github.com/furkanbiten/GoodNews9 https://challenger.ai/10 https://vizwiz.org/11 https://nocaps.org/
    http://visualgenome.org/
    https://github.com/furkanbiten/GoodNews
    11 https://nocaps.org/
    https://vizwiz.org/
    https://nocaps.org/
    12 https://github.com/tylin/coco-caption
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    • Conducting a comprehensive review of image captioning, covering both traditional methods and recent deep learning-based techniques, as well as the publicly available datasets, evaluation metrics, the open issues and challenges
    • Focusing on the deep learning-based image captioning researches, 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. The performance of current state-of-the-art methods of image captioning is also compared and analyzed
    • Discussing several future research directions of image captioning, such as Flexible Captioning, Unpaired Captioning, Paragraph Captioning and Non-Autoregressive Captioning

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