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Text-to-image synthesis is the task of generating images from text descriptions. Image generation, by itself, is a challenging task. When we combine image generation and text, we bring complexity to a new level: we need to combine data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Douglas M. Souza , Jônatas Wehrmann , Duncan D. Ruiz

Contrastive learning has emerged as a transformative method for learning effective visual representations through the alignment of image and text embeddings. However, pairwise similarity computation in contrastive loss between image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sachin Mehta , Maxwell Horton , Fartash Faghri , Mohammad Hossein Sekhavat , Mahyar Najibi , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Oncel Tuzel , Mohammad Rastegari

We investigate the potential of learning visual representations using synthetic images generated by text-to-image models. This is a natural question in the light of the excellent performance of such models in generating high-quality images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yonglong Tian , Lijie Fan , Phillip Isola , Huiwen Chang , Dilip Krishnan

Current multimodal models leveraging contrastive learning often face limitations in developing fine-grained conceptual understanding. This is due to random negative samples during pretraining, causing almost exclusively very dissimilar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Philipp J. Rösch , Norbert Oswald , Michaela Geierhos , Jindřich Libovický

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have revolutionized image synthesis through many applications like face generation, photograph editing, and image super-resolution. Image synthesis using GANs has predominantly been uni-modal, with few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Rohan Wadhawan , Tanuj Drall , Shubham Singh , Shampa Chakraverty

A comprehensive understanding of vision and language and their interrelation are crucial to realize the underlying similarities and differences between these modalities and to learn more generalized, meaningful representations. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Anindya Sundar Das , Sriparna Saha

Unifying text-image contrastive learning and text-to-image (T2I) generation in a single end-to-end model is challenging because the two objectives demand opposing masking regimes: contrastive alignment needs near-complete visible tokens,…

Customization of text-to-image models enables users to insert new concepts or objects and generate them in unseen settings. Existing methods either rely on comparatively expensive test-time optimization or train encoders on single-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nupur Kumari , Xi Yin , Jun-Yan Zhu , Ishan Misra , Samaneh Azadi

Image-to-image translation models transfer images from input domain to output domain in an endeavor to retain the original content of the image. Contrastive Unpaired Translation is one of the existing methods for solving such problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Bernard Spiegl

Self-supervised learning is a machine learning approach that generates implicit labels by learning underlined patterns and extracting discriminative features from unlabeled data without manual labelling. Contrastive learning introduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Asifullah Khan , Laiba Asmatullah , Anza Malik , Shahzaib Khan , Hamna Asif

Training supervised image synthesis models requires a critic to compare two images: the ground truth to the result. Yet, this basic functionality remains an open problem. A popular line of approaches uses the L1 (mean absolute error) loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Alex Andonian , Taesung Park , Bryan Russell , Phillip Isola , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang

Text-to-image synthesis has recently seen significant progress thanks to large pretrained language models, large-scale training data, and the introduction of scalable model families such as diffusion and autoregressive models. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Axel Sauer , Tero Karras , Samuli Laine , Andreas Geiger , Timo Aila

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely used in vision tasks. Notably, CLIP has demonstrated promising performance in few-shot learning (FSL). However, existing CLIP-based methods in training-free FSL (i.e., without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yayuan Li , Jintao Guo , Lei Qi , Wenbin Li , Yinghuan Shi

We present Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model with an unprecedented degree of photorealism and a deep level of language understanding. Imagen builds on the power of large transformer language models in understanding text and hinges on…

Unpaired image-to-image translation aims to find a mapping between the source domain and the target domain. To alleviate the problem of the lack of supervised labels for the source images, cycle-consistency based methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Tianshui Chen , Yongyi Lu , Guangping Li , Yukai Shi

Recently, contrastive learning-based image translation methods have been proposed, which contrasts different spatial locations to enhance the spatial correspondence. However, the methods often ignore the diverse semantic relation within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Chanyong Jung , Gihyun Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Despite advancements in text-to-image models, generating images that precisely align with textual descriptions remains challenging due to misalignment in training data. In this paper, we analyze the critical role of caption precision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Sheng Cheng , Maitreya Patel , Yezhou Yang

After pre-training on extensive image-text pairs, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) demonstrates promising performance on a wide variety of benchmarks. However, a substantial volume of multimodal interleaved documents remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Tiancheng Gu , Kaicheng Yang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yin Xie , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Jiankang Deng

The large-scale visual-language pre-trained model, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), has significantly improved image captioning for scenarios without human-annotated image-caption pairs. Recent advanced CLIP-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jiarui Yu , Haoran Li , Yanbin Hao , Bin Zhu , Tong Xu , Xiangnan He

Contrastive learning (CL), a self-supervised learning approach, can effectively learn visual representations from unlabeled data. Given the CL training data, generative models can be trained to generate synthetic data to supplement the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Dewen Zeng , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu