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Microsoft COCO Captions: Data Collection and Evaluation Server

Big Public Set of Image Captions and a Free Scoring Tool

This project brings a huge set of pictures paired with descriptions — more than 1.
5 million captions
for over 330,000 images.
Most photos get five different, simple lines written by people, so you see many ways to describe the same scene.
The captions are human-written, not made by machines, which helps apps learn real language and style.

Along with the data there's a public evaluation server you can send captions to, it checks them with several common tests and returns scores so you know how good a caption is.
That makes comparisons fair, since everyone uses the same rules.
The setup helps students, creators and developers improve apps that write captions for photos, and it speeds up research, because results are easier to compare.
Try it, share results, and watch caption tools get better — slowly but steady, the machines learn to speak like people.

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