Image Captioning refers to the process of generating textual description from an image – based on the objects and actions in the image.

The task is straightforward – the generated output is expected to describe in a single sentence what is shown in the image – the objects present, their properties, the actions being performed and the interaction between the objects, etc. But to replicate this behaviour in an artificial system is a huge task, as with any other image processing problem and hence the use of complex and advanced techniques such as Deep Learning to solve the task.

The dataset used is flickr8k. Which is a Dataset of 8000 images with 5 captions each

1)Text Prepocessing

• Reading Captions and creating a dictionary of image_id : list_of_captions
• Text cleaning of captions (converting captions to lower case, remove punctuation and 1 length words)
• Sorting the frequently occuring words and using them in the project
• Creating a dictionary of words_to_idx and idx_to_words
• Creating word embeddings matrix using glove vectors

2)Image Preprocessing

• prepocessing the image and then feeding it into resnet50 model
• using the resnet50 pretrained model we obtain 2048 vector for each image
• Creating a dictionary of image_name: resnet_encoded_img_vector

3)Creating the train and test dictionaries for using during training

4)Creating custom data generator

• Generating training data
• Each x-label contains the encoded image and a word of the caption while y-label contains next word to be predicted

5)Creating the model and training

• I trained for 10 epochs on 6000 training images

Output	Caption
	skateboarder is doing stunt on skateboard
	black dog is running through the grass
	two people are walking along snowy mountain
	surfer in the middle of crashing
	black dog running through water