RacGK: Region-aware image captioning with LSTM and Gaussian kernel attention
摘要
This paper studies sequential image captioning with stronger object grounding and nonlinear visual interaction modeling. We propose RacGK, which combines Region-Specific Feature Extraction (RSFE), a Region-Aware Attention Mechanism (RAAM), and Gaussian RBF-based Kernelized Self-Interaction Attention (KSIA) in an attention-guided LSTM decoder. On MS COCO 2014 with the Karpathy split, RacGK achieves competitive results, including 40.3 BLEU-4 and 59.4 ROUGE-L after CIDEr optimization. Ablations support the contribution of region-aware fusion and Gaussian kernel attention. Code is available at https://github.com/alamgirustc/RacGK.