# Phrase-based Image Captioning

Source: [Phrase-based Image Captioning](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61cf1e209131ce9f62cc>)

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Authors: R\\'emi Lebret, Pedro O. Pinheiro, Ronan Collobert

Published: 2015-02-12T14:17:15.000Z

## Abstract

Generating a novel textual description of an image is an interesting problem that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a simple model that is able to generate descriptive sentences given a sample image. This model has a strong focus on the syntax of the descriptions. We train a purely bilinear model that learns a metric between an image representation (generated from a previously trained Convolutional Neural Network) and phrases that are used to described them. The system is then able to infer phrases from a given image sample. Based on caption syntax statistics, we propose a simple language model that can produce relevant descriptions for a given test image using the phrases inferred. Our approach, which is considerably simpler than state-of-the-art models, achieves comparable results in two popular datasets for the task: Flickr30k and the recently proposed Microsoft COCO.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03671>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03671.pdf>)