Multi-modal generation has been widely explored in recent years. Current research directions involve generating text based on an image or vice versa. In this paper, we propose a new task called CIGLI: Conditional Image Generation from Language and Image. Instead of generating an image based on text as in text-image generation, this task requires the generation of an image from a textual description and an image prompt. We designed a new dataset to ensure that the text description describes information from both images, and that solely analyzing the description is insufficient to generate an image. We then propose a novel language-image fusion model which improves the performance over two established baseline methods, as evaluated by quantitative (automatic) and qualitative (human) evaluations. The code and dataset is available at https://github.com/vincentlux/CIGLI.
@article{arxiv.2108.08955,
title = {CIGLI: Conditional Image Generation from Language & Image},
author = {Xiaopeng Lu and Lynnette Ng and Jared Fernandez and Hao Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.08955},
year = {2021}
}