Comparative study of Transformer and LSTM Network with attention mechanism on Image Captioning

In a globalized world at the present epoch of generative intelligence, most of the manual labour tasks are automated with increased efficiency. This can support businesses to save time and money. A crucial component of generative intelligence is the integration of vision and language. Consequently, image captioning become an intriguing area of research. There have been multiple attempts by the researchers to solve this problem with different deep learning architectures, although the accuracy has increased, but the results are still not up to standard. This study buckles down to the comparison of Transformer and LSTM with attention block model on MS-COCO dataset, which is a standard dataset for image captioning. For both the models we have used pretrained Inception-V3 CNN encoder for feature extraction of the images. The Bilingual Evaluation Understudy score (BLEU) is used to checked the accuracy of caption generated by both models. Along with the transformer and LSTM with attention block models,CLIP-diffusion model, M2-Transformer model and the X-Linear Attention model have been discussed with state of the art accuracy.

Pranav Dandwate, Chaitanya Shahane, Vandana Jagtap, Shridevi C. Karande · 2023