Awesome Image Captioning:

A curated list of image captioning and related area. :-)

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Change Log

• Nov.13 NIPS'18 and AAAI'19 papers updated!
• Dec.04 More implementations updated!

Table of Contents

• Papers
  • Survey
  • Before - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019
• Popular Implementations
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Torch
  • Others

Papers

Survey

• A Comprehensive Survey of Deep Learning for Image Captioning - Hossain M et al, arXiv preprint 2018.

Before

• 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.

2015

• 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.

2016

• 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.
• 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.

2017

• 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.

2018

• 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.
• Rethinking the Form of Latent States in Image Captioning - Dai B et al, ECCV 2018. [code]
• 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, NIPS 2018.
• A Neural Compositional Paradigm for Image Captioning - Dai B et al, NIPS 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]
• 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.

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.

Popular Implementations

PyTorch

• ruotianluo/self-critical.pytorch
• ruotianluo/ImageCaptioning.pytorch
• jiasenlu/NeuralBabyTalk

TensorFlow

• tensorflow/models/im2txt
• DeepRNN/image_captioning

Torch

• jcjohnson/densecap
• karpathy/neuraltalk2
• jiasenlu/AdaptiveAttention

Others

• emansim/text2image
• apple2373/chainer-caption
• peteanderson80/bottom-up-attention

Licenses

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