Automated Image Captioning with CNNs and Transformers

Abstract

This project aims to create an automated image captioning system that generates natural language descriptions for input images by integrating techniques from computer vision and natural language processing. We employ various different techniques, ranging from CNN-RNN to the more advanced transformer-based techniques. Training is carried out on image datasets paired with descriptive captions, and model performance will be evaluated using established metrics such as BLEU, METEOR, and CIDEr. The project will also involve experimentation with advanced attention mechanisms, comparisons of different architectural choices, and hyperparameter optimization to refine captioning accuracy and overall system effectiveness.