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Generating long-form audio-visual stories from a short user prompt remains challenging due to an intent-execution gap, where high-level narrative intent must be preserved across coherent, shot-level multimodal generation over long horizons.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenzhang Sun , Zhenyu Wang , Zhangchi Hu , Chunfeng Wang , Hao Li , Wei Chen

Visual question answering is concerned with answering free-form questions about an image. Since it requires a deep linguistic understanding of the question and the ability to associate it with various objects that are present in the image,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Marcel Hildebrandt , Hang Li , Rajat Koner , Volker Tresp , Stephan Günnemann

Traditional visual storytelling is complex, requiring specialized knowledge and substantial resources, yet often constrained by human creativity and creation precision. While Large Language Models (LLMs) enhance visual storytelling, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yuzhou Huang , Yiran Qin , Shunlin Lu , Xintao Wang , Rui Huang , Ying Shan , Ruimao Zhang

Recent visual generative models enable story generation with consistent characters from text, but human-centric story generation faces additional challenges, such as maintaining detailed and diverse human face consistency and coordinating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Guibao Shen , Quande Liu , Jialin Gao , Lihao Liu , Lan Du , Cunjian Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Existing Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems are weak AI systems and exhibit limited capabilities when language generation tasks demand higher levels of creativity, originality and brevity. Effective solutions or, at least evaluations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Parag Jain , Priyanka Agrawal , Abhijit Mishra , Mohak Sukhwani , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

We consider the problem of designing an artificial agent capable of interacting with humans in collaborative dialogue to produce creative, engaging narratives. In this task, the goal is to establish universe details, and to collaborate on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Kory W. Mathewson , Pablo Samuel Castro , Colin Cherry , George Foster , Marc G. Bellemare

This paper presents a novel approach for temporal and semantic segmentation of edited videos into meaningful segments, from the point of view of the storytelling structure. The objective is to decompose a long video into more manageable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Lorenzo Baraldi , Costantino Grana , Rita Cucchiara

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, yet generating coherent image sequences for visual storytelling remains challenging. A key challenge is effectively leveraging all previous text-image pairs, referred to as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Sibo Dong , Ismail Shaheen , Maggie Shen , Rupayan Mallick , Sarah Adel Bargal

Multimodal text-to-image generation remains constrained by the difficulty of maintaining semantic alignment and professional-level detail across diverse visual domains. We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jiabao Shi , Minfeng Qi , Lefeng Zhang , Di Wang , Yingjie Zhao , Ziying Li , Yalong Xing , Ningran Li

Text-to-image multimodal tasks, generating/retrieving an image from a given text description, are extremely challenging tasks since raw text descriptions cover quite limited information in order to fully describe visually realistic images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Siwen Luo , Kunze Wang , Josiah Poon

An engaging and provocative question can open up a great conversation. In this work, we explore a novel scenario: a conversation agent views a set of the user's photos (for example, from social media platforms) and asks an engaging question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Shih-Han Chan , Tsai-Lun Yang , Yun-Wei Chu , Chi-Yang Hsu , Ting-Hao Huang , Yu-Shian Chiu , Lun-Wei Ku

Current work on image-based story generation suffers from the fact that the existing image sequence collections do not have coherent plots behind them. We improve visual story generation by producing a new image-grounded dataset, Visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Xudong Hong , Asad Sayeed , Khushboo Mehra , Vera Demberg , Bernt Schiele

Existing methods in the Visual Storytelling field often suffer from the problem of generating general descriptions, while the image contains a lot of meaningful contents remaining unnoticed. The failure of informative story generation can…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jiacheng Li , Haizhou Shi , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Natural language provides a widely accessible and expressive interface for robotic agents. To understand language in complex environments, agents must reason about the full range of language inputs and their correspondence to the world.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Stephanie Zhou , Alane Suhr , Yoav Artzi

In this paper, we introduce Dixit, an interactive visual storytelling system that the user interacts with iteratively to compose a short story for a photo sequence. The user initiates the process by uploading a sequence of photos. Dixit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Chao-Chun Hsu , Yu-Hua Chen , Zi-Yuan Chen , Hsin-Yu Lin , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang , Lun-Wei Ku

Conditional text-to-image generation is an active area of research, with many possible applications. Existing research has primarily focused on generating a single image from available conditioning information in one step. One practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Shikhar Sharma , Hannes Schulz , Devon Hjelm , Layla El Asri , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Yoshua Bengio , Graham W. Taylor

Devising intelligent agents able to live in an environment and learn by observing the surroundings is a longstanding goal of Artificial Intelligence. From a bare Machine Learning perspective, challenges arise when the agent is prevented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Matteo Tiezzi , Simone Marullo , Lapo Faggi , Enrico Meloni , Alessandro Betti , Stefano Melacci

Visual storytelling is an emerging field that combines images and narratives to create engaging and contextually rich stories. Despite its potential, generating coherent and emotionally resonant visual stories remains challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Xiaochuan Lin , Xiangyong Chen

Multimodal story customization aims to generate coherent story flows conditioned on textual descriptions, reference identity images, and shot types. While recent progress in story generation has shown promising results, most approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Chu-Song Chen

Video Question Answering (VQA) inherently relies on multimodal reasoning, integrating visual, temporal, and linguistic cues to achieve a deeper understanding of video content. However, many existing methods rely on feeding frame-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Noriyuki Kugo , Xiang Li , Zixin Li , Ashish Gupta , Arpandeep Khatua , Nidhish Jain , Chaitanya Patel , Yuta Kyuragi , Yasunori Ishii , Masamoto Tanabiki , Kazuki Kozuka , Ehsan Adeli