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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Rigel: Self-Distilled Score Adaptation for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation

Shuitsu Koyama, Kazuki Matsuda, Yuiga Wada +3

Automatic evaluation of image and video captioning is essential for benchmarking multimodal systems, although standard evaluation metrics show limited alignment with human judgment…

cs.CV2026

ZINA: Multimodal Fine-grained Hallucination Detection and Editing

Yuiga Wada, Kazuki Matsuda, Komei Sugiura +1

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often generate hallucinations, where the output deviates from the visual content. Given that these hallucinations can take diverse forms, d…

cs.CV2025

LLM-Free Image Captioning Evaluation in Reference-Flexible Settings

Shinnosuke Hirano, Yuiga Wada, Kazuki Matsuda +2

We focus on the automatic evaluation of image captions in both reference-based and reference-free settings. Existing metrics based on large language models (LLMs) favor their own g…

cs.CV2025

VELA: An LLM-Hybrid-as-a-Judge Approach for Evaluating Long Image Captions

Kazuki Matsuda, Yuiga Wada, Shinnosuke Hirano +2

In this study, we focus on the automatic evaluation of long and detailed image captions generated by multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Most existing automatic evaluation me…

cs.CV2024

DENEB: A Hallucination-Robust Automatic Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning

Kazuki Matsuda, Yuiga Wada, Komei Sugiura

In this work, we address the challenge of developing automatic evaluation metrics for image captioning, with a particular focus on robustness against hallucinations. Existing metri…