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The success of modern text-to-image generation is largely attributed to massive, high-quality datasets. Currently, these datasets are curated through a filter-first paradigm that aggressively discards low-quality raw data based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyang Liang , Ziyu Wan , Hongyu Liu , Dong Chen , Qiu Shen , Hao Zhu , Dongdong Chen

Recent text-to-image generation models have demonstrated impressive capability of generating text-aligned images with high fidelity. However, generating images of novel concept provided by the user input image is still a challenging task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yufan Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Tong Sun , Jinhui Xu

Although text-to-image (T2I) models have recently thrived as visual generative priors, their reliance on high-quality text-image pairs makes scaling up expensive. We argue that grasping the cross-modality alignment is not a necessity for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shuailei Ma , Kecheng Zheng , Ying Wei , Wei Wu , Fan Lu , Yifei Zhang , Chen-Wei Xie , Biao Gong , Jiapeng Zhu , Yujun Shen

Can a generative model be trained to produce images from a specific domain, guided by a text prompt only, without seeing any image? In other words: can an image generator be trained "blindly"? Leveraging the semantic power of large scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Rinon Gal , Or Patashnik , Haggai Maron , Gal Chechik , Daniel Cohen-Or

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

Contrastive models like CLIP have been shown to learn robust representations of images that capture both semantics and style. To leverage these representations for image generation, we propose a two-stage model: a prior that generates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Aditya Ramesh , Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol , Casey Chu , Mark Chen

Existing subject-driven text-to-image generation models suffer from tedious fine-tuning steps and struggle to maintain both text-image alignment and subject fidelity. For generating compositional subjects, it often encounters problems such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Shengyuan Liu , Bo Wang , Ye Ma , Te Yang , Xipeng Cao , Quan Chen , Han Li , Di Dong , Peng Jiang

While deep-learning models have been shown to perform well on image-to-text datasets, it is difficult to use them in practice for captioning images. This is because captions traditionally tend to be context-dependent and offer complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shinjini Ghosh , Sagnik Anupam

Users interact with text, image, code, or other editors on a daily basis. However, machine learning models are rarely trained in the settings that reflect the interactivity between users and their editor. This is understandable as training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Felix Faltings , Michel Galley , Baolin Peng , Kianté Brantley , Weixin Cai , Yizhe Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Bill Dolan

Recent advances in personalized image generation allow a pre-trained text-to-image model to learn a new concept from a set of images. However, existing personalization approaches usually require heavy test-time finetuning for each concept,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Jing Shi , Wei Xiong , Zhe Lin , Hyun Joon Jung

The impressive capacity shown by recent text-to-image diffusion models to generate high-quality pictures from textual input prompts has leveraged the debate about the very definition of art. Nonetheless, these models have been trained using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ricardo Kleinlein , Cristina Luna-Jiménez , Fernando Fernández-Martínez

We introduce a new method to efficiently create text-to-image models from a pre-trained CLIP and StyleGAN. It enables text driven sampling with an existing generative model without any external data or fine-tuning. This is achieved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Justin N. M. Pinkney , Chuan Li

We propose a new paradigm to automatically generate training data with accurate labels at scale using the text-toimage synthesis frameworks (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc.). The proposed approach decouples training data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Yunhao Ge , Jiashu Xu , Brian Nlong Zhao , Neel Joshi , Laurent Itti , Vibhav Vineet

Deep neural networks have achieved great successes on the image captioning task. However, most of the existing models depend heavily on paired image-sentence datasets, which are very expensive to acquire. In this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yang Feng , Lin Ma , Wei Liu , Jiebo Luo

Large-scale joint training of multimodal models, e.g., CLIP, have demonstrated great performance in many vision-language tasks. However, image-text pairs for pre-training are restricted to the intersection of images and texts, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yanan Sun , Zihan Zhong , Qi Fan , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

We present a novel approach to data-to-text generation based on iterative text editing. Our approach maximizes the completeness and semantic accuracy of the output text while leveraging the abilities of recent pre-trained models for text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Zdeněk Kasner , Ondřej Dušek

Generating images from natural language instructions is an intriguing yet highly challenging task. We approach text-to-image generation by combining the power of the retrained CLIP representation with an off-the-shelf image generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Xingchao Liu , Chengyue Gong , Lemeng Wu , Shujian Zhang , Hao Su , Qiang Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) on large-scale image-caption datasets learns representations that can achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization. However, such models require a massive amount of pre-training data. Improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Siddharth Joshi , Arnav Jain , Ali Payani , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Recent advances in image tokenizers, such as VQ-VAE, have enabled text-to-image generation using auto-regressive methods, similar to language modeling. However, these methods have yet to leverage pre-trained language models, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yuhui Zhang , Brandon McKinzie , Zhe Gan , Vaishaal Shankar , Alexander Toshev

Diffusion models have demonstrated high-quality performance in conditional text-to-image generation, particularly with structural cues such as edges, layouts, and depth. However, lighting conditions have received limited attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ryugo Morita , Stanislav Frolov , Brian Bernhard Moser , Ko Watanabe , Riku Takahashi , Andreas Dengel