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Image Captioning in the Wild: How People Caption Images on Flickr

P. Blandfort, T. Karayil, D. Borth, A. Dengel

MUSA2 Workshop at ACM Multimedia||DOI: 10.1145/3132515.3132522
Image CaptioningFlickrMultimedia

Abstract

We study how people naturally caption images on Flickr, analyzing real-world image captioning behavior to understand the gap between automated captioning systems and human descriptions in the wild.

Overview

This work investigates how people naturally describe images on Flickr, providing insights into real-world image captioning behavior. Understanding how humans create captions in unconstrained settings is crucial for developing more natural automated captioning systems.

Key Findings

We analyze patterns in how people caption images on Flickr and discuss the implications for designing automated image captioning systems that better align with human captioning behavior.