Image captioning in different languages

This short position paper provides a manually curated list of non-English image captioning datasets (as of May 2024). Through this list, we can observe the dearth of datasets in different languages: only 23 different languages are represented. With the addition of the Crossmodal-3600 dataset (Thapliyal et al., 2022, 36 languages) this number increases somewhat, but still this number is small compared to the +/-500 institutional languages that are out there. This paper closes with some open questions for the field of Vision & Language.