Enhancing Descriptive Image Captioning with Natural Language Inference (2021.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing captioning models tend to generate generic captions, but generating descriptive captions is important. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to encourage captioning models to produce more detailed captions using natural language inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baseline models on MSCOCO metrics on descriptiveness and descriptiveness. |
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