How AI Captions Your Photos?

Author(s): Poornachandra Sarang

Originally published on Towards AI.

A conceptual guide to image captioning for a dummy

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Look at the image below.

Image source: Flickr 8k Dataset. 2712787899_d85048eb6a.jpg

If I asked you to describe the image — you would probably say something like there is “A young woman sitting on a ledge with a black purse looking at her fingernails.” This adequately describes the image contents. Image captioning is describing the image contents. An appropriate caption can help not only a normal person to appreciate the image but also helps a blind in imagining what the image is all about. Captioning is a… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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