Golech, S.B.Karacan, S.B.Sönmez, E.B.Ayral, H.2024-07-182024-07-1820229781665470957https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCME55909.2022.9988025https://hdl.handle.net/11411/64032022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering, ICECCME 2022 -- 16 November 2022 through 18 November 2022 -- -- 185686The procedure of generating natural language captions for an image is known as image captioning. Automatic image captioning is a particularly challenging task that stands at the junction of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. It has a variety of applications, including text-based image retrieval, assisting visually impaired users, and human-robot interaction. The majority of publications on the subject focus on the English language, which is an analytical language with characteristics differing from the agglutinative Turkish language. This work introduces the Turkish MS COCO dataset that extends the original MS COCO collection with captions in the Turkish language; experimental results surpass the current state-of-the-art for the Turkish image captioning field. Furthermore, the newly introduced database is also applicable for the study of machine translation. On the Turkish MS COCO dataset, the best performance has been achieved with the Meshed Memory Transformers with a Bleu-1 score of 0.72. The database is publicly available at https://github.com/BilgiAILAB/TurkishImageCaptioning. It is desired that the Turkish MS COCO dataset with the proposed benchmark will be an excellent resource for future studies on Turkish image captioning. © 2022 IEEE.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessCnnComputer VisionDeep Neural NetworksLstmNatural Language ProcessingRnnTransformersTurkish İmage CaptioningTurkish Ms Coco DatabaseComputer VisionDatabase SystemsHuman Robot İnteractionLong Short-Term MemoryNatural Language Processing SystemsPetroleum Reservoir EvaluationImage CaptioningLanguage ProcessingLstmNatural Language ProcessingNatural LanguagesRnnTransformerTurkish İmage CaptioningTurkish Ms Coco DatabaseTurkishsDeep Neural NetworksConference Object2-s2.0-8514641545710.1109/ICECCME55909.2022.9988025N/A