CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning
Jack Hessel, Ari Holtzman, Maxwell Forbes, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi
2021Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing965 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF
Abstract
Image captioning has conventionally relied on reference-based automatic evaluations, where machine captions are compared against captions written by humans. This is in contrast to the reference-free manner in which humans assess caption quality.
Topics & Concepts
Closed captioningComputer scienceMetric (unit)Artificial intelligenceInformation retrievalNatural language processingFocus (optics)Image (mathematics)EconomicsOperations managementPhysicsOpticsMultimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsTopic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques