Girish Kulkarni
Also known as G. Kulkarni
Girish Kulkarni is a computer-vision researcher whose papers examine how systems describe images in natural language. He coauthored Baby Talk, which combines visual recognition with statistics from descriptive text, and worked on image descriptions with web-scale n-grams and one million captioned photographs. CVPR awarded the 2011 Baby Talk paper its Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2021, and Kulkarni published BabyTalk in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence in December 2013. Since 2007, he has helped organizations build products and improve clinical-care operations. As of October 2026, he describes himself as a Technology & Product Innovator with more than 15 years in engineering leadership, software and application development, and enterprise solution architecture.
- Now at
- Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
- Works
- 46
- Citations
- 2,873
- h-index
- 12
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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Since 2007
Healthcare product work
Since 2007, he helps organizations build products and teams, improve clinical-care operations, and lower providers’ administrative costs.
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2011
Baby Talk and web n-grams
In 2011, his CVPR paper Baby Talk combines computer-vision recognition with statistics from descriptive text to generate image captions. In June 2011, he and four collaborators publish Composing Simple Image Descriptions using Web-scale N-grams at CoNLL.
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2011
One million captioned photos
In 2011, he coauthors the NIPS paper Im2Text with Vicente Ordonez and Tamara L. Berg. The project uses the SBU Captioned Photo Dataset of one million captioned photographs.
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December 2013
BabyTalk in TPAMI
In December 2013, he publishes BabyTalk in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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2021
A Longuet-Higgins Prize
In 2021, CVPR awards the Longuet-Higgins Prize to Baby Talk, his paper on image description from 2011.
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As of October 2026
Technology and product work
As of October 2026, he describes himself as a Technology & Product Innovator with more than 15 years of experience in engineering leadership, software and application development, and enterprise solution architecture.
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