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An image conveys meaning through both its visual content and emotional tone, jointly shaping human perception. We introduce Controllable Emotional Image Content Generation (C-EICG), which aims to generate images that remain faithful to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jingyuan Yang , Weibin Luo , Hui Huang

Recent conditional image generation methods can improve controllability by generating images that are faithful to conditions such as sketches, human poses, segmentation maps, and depth. By applying these techniques to image augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shogo Noguchi

While generative models have become powerful tools for image synthesis, they are typically optimized for executing carefully crafted textual prompts, offering limited support for the open-ended visual exploration that often precedes idea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kfir Goldberg , Elad Richardson , Yael Vinker

Existing approaches for color-concept association typically rely on query-based image referencing, and color extraction from image references. However, these approaches are effective only for common concepts, and are vulnerable to unstable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yihan Hou , Xingchen Zeng , Yusong Wang , Manling Yang , Xiaojiao Chen , Wei Zeng

Customizing pre-trained text-to-image generation model has attracted massive research interest recently, due to its huge potential in real-world applications. Although existing methods are able to generate creative content for a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yufan Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , Tong Sun

Prompting approaches have been recently explored in text style transfer, where a textual prompt is used to query a pretrained language model to generate style-transferred texts word by word in an autoregressive manner. However, such a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Guoqing Luo , Yu Tong Han , Lili Mou , Mauajama Firdaus

We investigate using reinforcement learning agents as generative models of images (extending arXiv:1804.01118). A generative agent controls a simulated painting environment, and is trained with rewards provided by a discriminator network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 John F. J. Mellor , Eunbyung Park , Yaroslav Ganin , Igor Babuschkin , Tejas Kulkarni , Dan Rosenbaum , Andy Ballard , Theophane Weber , Oriol Vinyals , S. M. Ali Eslami

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

This paper addresses the problem of manipulating images using natural language description. Our task aims to semantically modify visual attributes of an object in an image according to the text describing the new visual appearance. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Seonghyeon Nam , Yunji Kim , Seon Joo Kim

Image segmentation is usually addressed by training a model for a fixed set of object classes. Incorporating additional classes or more complex queries later is expensive as it requires re-training the model on a dataset that encompasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Timo Lüddecke , Alexander S. Ecker

Despite rapid advancements in the capabilities of generative models, pretrained text-to-image models still struggle in capturing the semantics conveyed by complex prompts that compound multiple objects and instance-level attributes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Etai Sella , Yanir Kleiman , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Current controls over diffusion models (e.g., through text or ControlNet) for image generation fall short in recognizing abstract, continuous attributes like illumination direction or non-rigid shape change. In this paper, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ta-Ying Cheng , Matheus Gadelha , Thibault Groueix , Matthew Fisher , Radomir Mech , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Linguistic style is an essential part of written communication, with the power to affect both clarity and attractiveness. With recent advances in vision and language, we can start to tackle the problem of generating image captions that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Alexander Mathews , Lexing Xie , Xuming He

We propose pix2pix3D, a 3D-aware conditional generative model for controllable photorealistic image synthesis. Given a 2D label map, such as a segmentation or edge map, our model learns to synthesize a corresponding image from different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Kangle Deng , Gengshan Yang , Deva Ramanan , Jun-Yan Zhu

Text-driven human motion generation has recently attracted considerable attention, allowing models to generate human motions based on textual descriptions. However, current methods neglect the influence of human attributes-such as age,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinghan Wang , Kun Xu , Fei Li , Cao Sheng , Jiazhong Yu , Yadong Mu

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

Recent work has shown that inference-time reasoning and reflection can improve text-to-image generation without retraining. However, existing approaches often rely on implicit, holistic critiques or unconstrained prompt rewrites, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 V. Kovalev , A. Kuvshinov , A. Buzovkin , D. Pokidov , D. Timonin

Text-to-image generative models have enabled high-resolution image synthesis across different domains, but require users to specify the content they wish to generate. In this paper, we consider the inverse problem -- given a collection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Nan Liu , Yilun Du , Shuang Li , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

We propose a new recurrent generative model for generating images from text captions while attending on specific parts of text captions. Our model creates images by incrementally adding patches on a "canvas" while attending on words from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Amanpreet Singh , Sharan Agrawal

An image is a very effective tool for conveying emotions. Many researchers have investigated in computing the image emotions by using various features extracted from images. In this paper, we focus on two high level features, the object and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Hye-Rin Kim , Yeong-Seok Kim , Seon Joo Kim , In-Kwon Lee