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Text-to-image synthesis has made encouraging progress and attracted lots of public attention recently. However, popular evaluation metrics in this area, like the Inception Score and Fr'echet Inception Distance, incur several issues. First…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Qi Chen , Chaorui Deng , Zixiong Huang , Bowen Zhang , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

Time-unconditional generative models learn time-independent denoising vector fields. But without time conditioning, the same noisy input may correspond to multiple noise levels and different denoising directions, which interferes with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zimo Wang , Ishit Mehta , Haolin Lu , Chung-En Sun , Ge Yan , Tsui-Wei Weng , Tzu-Mao Li

We show that Fr\'echet Distance (FD), long considered impractical as a training objective, can in fact be effectively optimized in the representation space. Our idea is simple: decouple the population size for FD estimation (e.g., 50k) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jiawei Yang , Zhengyang Geng , Xuan Ju , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

Evaluating the performance of generative models in image synthesis is a challenging task. Although the Fr\'echet Inception Distance is a widely accepted evaluation metric, it integrates different aspects (e.g., fidelity and diversity) of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ryoungwoo Jang , Minjee Kim , Da-in Eun , Kyungjin Cho , Jiyeon Seo , Namkug Kim

The rapid advancement of natural language processing, information retrieval (IR), computer vision, and other technologies has presented significant challenges in evaluating the performance of these systems. One of the main challenges is the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Negar Arabzadeh , Charles L. A. Clarke

Evaluation metrics in image synthesis play a key role to measure performances of generative models. However, most metrics mainly focus on image fidelity. Existing diversity metrics are derived by comparing distributions, and thus they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jiyeon Han , Hwanil Choi , Yunjey Choi , Junho Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jaesik Choi

Developers of text generation models rely on automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for slow and expensive manual evaluations. However, image captioning metrics have struggled to give accurate learned estimates of the semantic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Mert İnan , Piyush Sharma , Baber Khalid , Radu Soricut , Matthew Stone , Malihe Alikhani

Synthetic images are an option for augmenting limited medical imaging datasets to improve the performance of various machine learning models. A common metric for evaluating synthetic image quality is the Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Thomas Wallace , Ik Siong Heng , Senad Subasic , Chris Messenger

Objective and interpretable metrics to evaluate current artificial intelligent systems are of great importance, not only to analyze the current state of such systems but also to objectively measure progress in the future. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Julian Niedermeier , Gonçalo Mordido , Christoph Meinel

In this paper, we propose an improved quantitative evaluation framework for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on generating domain-specific images, where we improve conventional evaluation methods on two levels: the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shaohui Liu , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

There has been a recent explosion in research into machine-learning-based generative modeling to tackle computational challenges for simulations in high energy physics (HEP). In order to use such alternative simulators in practice, we need…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-24 Raghav Kansal , Anni Li , Javier Duarte , Nadezda Chernyavskaya , Maurizio Pierini , Breno Orzari , Thiago Tomei

Most evaluations of generative models rely on feature-distribution metrics such as FID, which operate on continuous recognition features that are explicitly trained to be invariant to appearance variations, and thus discard cues critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zexi Jia , Pengcheng Luo , Yijia Zhong , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Text-to-Image (TTI) systems often support people during ideation, the early stages of a creative process when exposure to a broad set of relevant images can help explore the design space. Since ideation is an important subclass of TTI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Negar Arabzadeh , Fernando Diaz , Junfeng He

We propose a new algorithm to incorporate class conditional information into the critic of GANs via a multi-class generalization of the commonly used Hinge loss that is compatible with both supervised and semi-supervised settings. We study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Ilya Kavalerov , Wojciech Czaja , Rama Chellappa

A commonly used evaluation metric for text-to-image synthesis is the Inception score (IS) \cite{inceptionscore}, which has been shown to be a quality metric that correlates well with human judgment. However, IS does not reveal properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 William Lund Sommer , Alexandros Iosifidis

Recently, a myriad of conditional image generation and editing models have been developed to serve different downstream tasks, including text-to-image generation, text-guided image editing, subject-driven image generation, control-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Max Ku , Tianle Li , Kai Zhang , Yujie Lu , Xingyu Fu , Wenwen Zhuang , Wenhu Chen

A persistent challenge in conditional image synthesis has been to generate diverse output images from the same input image despite only one output image being observed per input image. GAN-based methods are prone to mode collapse, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shichong Peng , Alireza Moazeni , Ke Li

State-of-the-art text-to-image models produce high-quality images, but inference remains expensive as generation requires several sequential ODE or denoising steps. Native one-step models aim to reduce this cost by mapping noise to an image…

Automatically generating descriptive captions for images is a well-researched area in computer vision. However, existing evaluation approaches focus on measuring the similarity between two sentences disregarding fine-grained semantics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Philipp Harzig , Dan Zecha , Rainer Lienhart , Carolin Kaiser , René Schallner

This paper introduces the Global-Local Image Perceptual Score (GLIPS), an image metric designed to assess the photorealistic image quality of AI-generated images with a high degree of alignment to human visual perception. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Memoona Aziz , Umair Rehman , Muhammad Umair Danish , Katarina Grolinger