How to Automatically Generate Textual Descriptions for Photographs with Deep Learning - Machine Learning Mastery

Captioning an image involves generating a human readable textual description given an image, such as a photograph. It is an easy problem for a human, but very challenging for a machine as it involves both understanding the content of an image and how to translate this understanding into natural language. Recently, deep learning methods have displaced classical methods and are achieving state-of-the-art results for the problem of automatically generating descriptions, called "captions," for images. In this post, you will discover how deep neural network models can be used to automatically generate descriptions for images, such as photographs. Describing an image is the problem of generating a human-readable textual description of an image, such as a photograph of an object or scene.