Recent Trends in Automatic Image Captioning Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 14361
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social media; data mining; robotics; data fusion; computer vision
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid development of digitalization, tagging and user-generated content has brought about a substantial increase in datasets where images are accompanied by related text, giving rise to automatic image captioning (AIC), a process that seeks to automatically generate properly formed English sentences or captions that describe the content of images. AIC research has a great impact on various domains, such as virtual assistants, image indexing, recommendation systems, and medical diagnosis systems, among others. Image captioning in particular relies on computer vision for image comprehension and natural language processing to generate textual descriptions that are semantically and linguistically sound.
Various techniques have been pursued to improve automatic image captioning, including deep learning technology, automatic text generation, retrieval-based image captioning, and template-based image captioning. Nevertheless, the research in this field has been brought to a halt by several inherent challenges and limitations of the theoretical framework employed, the quality of datasets used for machine learning development, and difficulty of cross-domain generalization. Thus, further research and advancement in the field is urgently needed. This Special Issue will present state-of-the-art research in the field of automatic image captioning, highlighting the latest developments for both the theoretical and practical applications of this emerging technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Machine learning and deep learning techniques for image captioning;
- Theoretical frameworks for automatic image captioning;
- Text summarization for image captioning;
- Review papers on image captioning;
- New dataset and evaluation frameworks for automatic image captioning;
- Preprocessing and filtering techniques for image captioning;
- Cross-domain generalization in image captioning;
- Recent advances automatic medical image captioning
Dr. Mourad Oussalah
Prof. Dr. Rachid Jennane
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- image captioning
- natural language processing
- text generation
- image content analysis
- image tagging
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