Lighting Search Algorithm with Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Captioning System for Natural Language Processing

Recently, deep learning models have become more prominent due to their tremendous performance for real-time tasks like face recognition, object detection, natural language processing (NLP), instance segmentation, image classification, gesture recognition, and video classification. Image captioning is one of the critical tasks in NLP and computer vision (CV). It completes conversion from image to text; specifically, the model produces description text automatically based on the input images. In this aspect, this article develops a Lighting Search Algorithm (LSA) with a Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network Image Captioning System (LSAHCNN-ICS) for NLP. This introduced LSAHCNN-ICS system develops an end-to-end model which employs convolutional neural network (CNN) based ShuffleNet as an encoder and HCNN as a decoder. At the encoding part, the ShuffleNet model derives feature descriptors of the image. Besides, in the decoding part, the description of text can be generated using the proposed hybrid convolutional neural network (HCNN) model. To achieve improved captioning results, the LSA is applied as a hyperparameter tuning strategy, representing the innovation of the study. The simulation analysis of the presented LSAHCNN-ICS technique is performed on a benchmark database, and the obtained results demonstrated the enhanced outcomes of the LSAHCNN-ICS algorithm over other recent methods with maximum Consensus-based Image Description Evaluation (CIDEr Code) of 43.60, 59.54, and 135.14 on Flickr8k, Flickr30k, and MSCOCO datasets correspondingly.