Novel object captioning surpasses human performance on benchmarks

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"... Novel object captioning (NOC) aims to generate image captions capable of describing novel objects that are not present in the caption training data. NOC can add value to a variety of applications, such as human-computer interaction and image-language understanding. However, NOC is a challenging problem as it requires a visual system to recognize novel objects, and it also needs a language model to generate fluent sentences describing the objects. ..."

Novel object captioning surpasses human performance on benchmarks - Microsoft Research

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VIVO: Surpassing Human Performance in Novel Object Captioning with Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training