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Recent advancements in the field of AI agents have impacted the way we work, enabling greater automation and collaboration between humans and agents. In the data visualization field, multi-agent systems can be useful for employing agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Anton Wolter , Georgios Vidalakis , Michael Yu , Ankit Grover , Vaishali Dhanoa

Visual storytelling systems generate multi-sentence stories from image sequences. In this task, capturing contextual information and bridging visual variation bring additional challenges. We propose a simple yet effective framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yingjin Song , Denis Paperno , Albert Gatt

Generative models have recently exhibited exceptional capabilities in text-to-image generation, but still struggle to generate image sequences coherently. In this work, we focus on a novel, yet challenging task of generating a coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chang Liu , Haoning Wu , Yujie Zhong , Xiaoyun Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Visual storytelling is a task of generating relevant and interesting stories for given image sequences. In this work we aim at increasing the diversity of the generated stories while preserving the informative content from the images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hong Chen , Yifei Huang , Hiroya Takamura , Hideki Nakayama

Video storytelling is engaging multimedia content that utilizes video and its accompanying narration to attract the audience, where a key challenge is creating narrations for recorded visual scenes. Previous studies on dense video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dingyi Yang , Chunru Zhan , Ziheng Wang , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng , Qin Jin

A method for generating narratives by analyzing single images or image sequences is presented, inspired by the time immemorial tradition of Narrative Art. The proposed method explores the multimodal capabilities of GPT-4o to interpret…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Edirlei Soares de Lima , Marco A. Casanova , Antonio L. Furtado

Long-form visual storytelling requires maintaining continuity across shots, including consistent characters, stable environments, and smooth scene transitions. While existing generative models can produce strong individual frames, they fail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ishani Mondal , Yiwen Song , Mihir Parmar , Palash Goyal , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Tomas Pfister , Yale Song

Data-driven storytelling is a powerful method for conveying insights by combining narrative techniques with visualizations and text. These stories integrate visual aids, such as highlighted bars and lines in charts, along with textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mohammed Saidul Islam , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Md Rizwan Parvez , Enamul Hoque , Shafiq Joty

Generating a coherent sequence of images that tells a visual story, using text-to-image diffusion models, often faces the critical challenge of maintaining subject consistency across all story scenes. Existing approaches, which typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gopalji Gaur , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

Generating coherent and communicative visual sequences, such as image sequences and videos, remains a significant challenge for current multimodal systems. Despite advances in visual quality and the integration of world knowledge, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chutian Meng , Fan Ma , Chi Zhang , Jiaxu Miao , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang

We address the problem of visual storytelling, i.e., generating a story for a given sequence of images. While each sentence of the story should describe a corresponding image, a coherent story also needs to be consistent and relate to both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Tom Braude , Idan Schwartz , Alexander Schwing , Ariel Shamir

Sequential vision-to-language or visual storytelling has recently been one of the areas of focus in computer vision and language modeling domains. Though existing models generate narratives that read subjectively well, there could be cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Aditya Surikuchi , Jorma Laaksonen

While diffusion models generate high-fidelity video clips, transforming them into coherent storytelling engines remains challenging. Current agentic pipelines automate this via chained modules but suffer from semantic drift and cascading…

Story Visualization (SV) is a challenging generative vision task, that requires both visual quality and consistency between different frames in generated image sequences. Previous approaches either employ some kind of memory mechanism to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Christos Papadimitriou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

A natural image usually conveys rich semantic content and can be viewed from different angles. Existing image description methods are largely restricted by small sets of biased visual paragraph annotations, and fail to cover rich underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Xiaodan Liang , Zhiting Hu , Hao Zhang , Chuang Gan , Eric P. Xing

Online writers and journalism media are increasingly combining visualization (and other multimedia content) with narrative text to create narrative visualizations. Often, however, the two elements are presented independently of one another.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Ronald Metoyer , Qiyu Zhi , Bart Janczuk , Walter Scheirer

A picture is worth a thousand words, thus, it is crucial for conversational agents to understand, perceive, and effectively respond with pictures. However, we find that directly employing conventional image generation techniques is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Xiaowen Sun , Jiazhan Feng , Yuxuan Wang , Yuxuan Lai , Xingyu Shen , Dongyan Zhao

For recent diffusion-based generative models, maintaining consistent content across a series of generated images, especially those containing subjects and complex details, presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yupeng Zhou , Daquan Zhou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng , Qibin Hou

Characters are important in narratives. They move the plot forward, create emotional connections, and embody the story's themes. Visual storytelling methods focus more on the plot and events relating to it, without building the narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Danyang Liu , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

Storytelling algorithms aim to 'connect the dots' between disparate documents by linking starting and ending documents through a series of intermediate documents. Existing storytelling algorithms are based on notions of coherence and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Dipayan Maiti , Mohammad Raihanul Islam , Scotland Leman , Naren Ramakrishnan