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As a technically challenging topic, visual storytelling aims at generating an imaginary and coherent story with narrative multi-sentences from a group of relevant images. Existing methods often generate direct and rigid descriptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Tengpeng Li , Hanli Wang , Bin He , Chang Wen Chen

Maintaining narrative coherence and visual consistency remains a central challenge in open-domain video generation. Existing text-to-video models often treat each shot independently, resulting in identity drift, scene inconsistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qinglin Zeng , Kaitong Cai , Ruiqi Chen , Qinhan Lv , Keze Wang

A storyboard is a sequence of images to illustrate a story containing multiple sentences, which has been a key process to create different story products. In this paper, we tackle a new multimedia task of automatic storyboard creation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shizhe Chen , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Qin Jin , Pingping Lin , Xiaoyu Qi , Chunting Wang , Jin Zhou

We propose a hierarchically structured reinforcement learning approach to address the challenges of planning for generating coherent multi-sentence stories for the visual storytelling task. Within our framework, the task of generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Qiuyuan Huang , Zhe Gan , Asli Celikyilmaz , Dapeng Wu , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaodong He

Image description task has been invariably examined in a static manner with qualitative presumptions held to be universally applicable, regardless of the scope or target of the description. In practice, however, different viewers may pay…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Story visualization aims to generate a series of images that match the story described in texts, and it requires the generated images to satisfy high quality, alignment with the text description, and consistency in character identities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Wen Wang , Canyu Zhao , Hao Chen , Zhekai Chen , Kecheng Zheng , Chunhua Shen

Visual storytelling aims to automatically generate a coherent story based on a given image sequence. Unlike tasks like image captioning, visual stories should contain factual descriptions, worldviews, and human social commonsense to put…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Eileen Wang , Soyeon Caren Han , Josiah Poon

The advent of AI-Generated Content (AIGC) has spurred research into automated video generation to streamline conventional processes. However, automating storytelling video production, particularly for customized narratives, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Panwen Hu , Jin Jiang , Jianqi Chen , Mingfei Han , Shengcai Liao , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Visual storytelling involves generating a sequence of coherent frames from a textual storyline while maintaining consistency in characters and scenes. Existing autoregressive methods, which rely on previous frame-sentence pairs, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sixiao Zheng , Yanwei Fu

We propose Camera Artist, a multi-agent framework that models a real-world filmmaking workflow to generate narrative videos with explicit cinematic language. While recent multi-agent systems have made substantial progress in automating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Haobo Hu , Qi Mao , Yuanhang Li , Libiao Jin

We define "visual story-writing" as using visual representations of story elements to support writing and revising narrative texts. To demonstrate this approach, we developed a text editor that automatically visualizes a graph of entity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Damien Masson , Zixin Zhao , Fanny Chevalier

Story visualization aims to generate a series of realistic and coherent images based on a storyline. Current models adopt a frame-by-frame architecture by transforming the pre-trained text-to-image model into an auto-regressive manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao , Hao Tang , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

One of the primary challenges of visual storytelling is developing techniques that can maintain the context of the story over long event sequences to generate human-like stories. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Md Sultan Al Nahian , Tasmia Tasrin , Sagar Gandhi , Ryan Gaines , Brent Harrison

Story visualization advances the traditional text-to-image generation by enabling multiple image generation based on a complete story. This task requires machines to 1) understand long text inputs and 2) produce a globally consistent image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Hong Chen , Rujun Han , Te-Lin Wu , Hideki Nakayama , Nanyun Peng

Text-to-image generation models have made significant progress in producing high-quality images from textual descriptions, yet they continue to struggle with maintaining subject consistency across multiple images, a fundamental requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mingxiao Li , Mang Ning , Marie-Francine Moens

There has been a recent explosion of impressive generative models that can produce high quality images (or videos) conditioned on text descriptions. However, all such approaches rely on conditional sentences that contain unambiguous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Tanzila Rahman , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Shweta Mahajan , Leonid Sigal

Observing a set of images and their corresponding paragraph-captions, a challenging task is to learn how to produce a semantically coherent paragraph to describe the visual content of an image. Inspired by recent successes in integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Dandan Guo , Ruiying Lu , Bo Chen , Zequn Zeng , Mingyuan Zhou

Writing a coherent and engaging story is not easy. Creative writers use their knowledge and worldview to put disjointed elements together to form a coherent storyline, and work and rework iteratively toward perfection. Automated visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Chi-Yang Hsu , Yun-Wei Chu , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang , Lun-Wei Ku

Creating a cohesive, high-quality, relevant, media story is a challenge that news media editors face on a daily basis. This challenge is aggravated by the flood of highly relevant information that is constantly pouring onto the newsroom. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Gonçalo Marcelino , David Semedo , André Mourão , Saverio Blasi , Marta Mrak , João Magalhães

Storytelling aims to generate reasonable and vivid narratives based on an ordered image stream. The fidelity to the image story theme and the divergence of story plots attract readers to keep reading. Previous works iteratively improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Chuanqi Zang , Jiji Tang , Rongsheng Zhang , Zeng Zhao , Tangjie Lv , Mingtao Pei , Wei Liang