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We propose to use automatically generated instruction-following data to improve the zero-shot capabilities of a large multimodal model with additional support for generative and image editing tasks. We achieve this by curating a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jefferson Hernandez , Ruben Villegas , Vicente Ordonez

Video content remains largely inaccessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) users. To address this, we introduce a prototype that leverages a multimodal agent - powered by a novel conversational architecture using a multimodal large language…

Search engines enable the retrieval of unknown information with texts. However, traditional methods fall short when it comes to understanding unfamiliar visual content, such as identifying an object that the model has never seen before.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zhixin Zhang , Yiyuan Zhang , Xiaohan Ding , Xiangyu Yue

Generating images with embedded text is crucial for the automatic production of visual and multimodal documents, such as educational materials and advertisements. However, existing diffusion-based text-to-image models often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Forouzan Fallah , Maitreya Patel , Agneet Chatterjee , Vlad I. Morariu , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Blind and low-vision (BLV) people face many challenges when venturing into public environments, often wishing it were easier to get help from people nearby. Ironically, while many sighted individuals are willing to help, such interactions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yuanyang Teng , Connor Courtien , David Angel Rios , Yves M. Tseng , Jacqueline Gibson , Maryam Aziz , Avery Reyna , Rajan Vaish , Brian A. Smith

While generative models such as text-to-image, large language models and text-to-video have seen significant progress, the extension to text-to-virtual-reality remains largely unexplored, due to a deficit in training data and the complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Vriksha Srihari , R. Bhavya , Shruti Jayaraman , V. Mary Anita Rajam

Image generation models have evolved from text-conditioned pixel synthesis toward multimodal agents endowed with visual comprehension and tool invocation capabilities. Yet, existing agents remain at the mercy of underlying black-box image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junyan Ye , Jun He , Zilong Huang , Dongzhi Jiang , Xuan Yang , Rui Chen , Weijia Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming integral to a wide range of tools, tasks, and problem-solving processes, especially in software development. Originally designed for natural language processing tasks such as text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Prashant Chandrasekar , Mariel Couvillion , Ayshwarya Saktheeswaran , Jessica Zeitz

Text-to-image models are powerful for producing high-quality images based on given text prompts, but crafting these prompts often requires specialized vocabulary. To address this, existing methods train rewriting models with supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hongji Yang , Yucheng Zhou , Wencheng Han , Jianbing Shen

Text-to-Image synthesis is the task of generating an image according to a specific text description. Generative Adversarial Networks have been considered the standard method for image synthesis virtually since their introduction. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Konstantina Nikolaidou , George Retsinas , Vincent Christlein , Mathias Seuret , Giorgos Sfikas , Elisa Barney Smith , Hamam Mokayed , Marcus Liwicki

State-of-the-art visual generative AI tools hold immense potential to assist users in the early ideation stages of creative tasks -- offering the ability to generate (rather than search for) novel and unprecedented (instead of existing)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Evans Xu Han , Alice Qian Zhang , Haiyi Zhu , Hong Shen , Paul Pu Liang , Jane Hsieh

We develop an approach for text-to-image generation that embraces additional retrieval images, driven by a combination of implicit visual guidance loss and generative objectives. Unlike most existing text-to-image generation methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , John Collomosse

Generating accurate and consistent visual aids is a critical challenge in mathematics education, where visual representations like geometric shapes and functions play a pivotal role in enhancing student comprehension. This paper introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jeongwoo Lee , Kwangsuk Park , Jihyeon Park

Plain text has become a prevalent interface for text-to-image synthesis. However, its limited customization options hinder users from accurately describing desired outputs. For example, plain text makes it hard to specify continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Songwei Ge , Taesung Park , Jun-Yan Zhu , Jia-Bin Huang

Text-to-image models have shown remarkable progress in generating high-quality images from user-provided prompts. Despite this, the quality of these images varies due to the models' sensitivity to human language nuances. With advancements…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xinrui Yang , Zhuohan Wang , Anthony Hu

Advances in generative models have led to significant interest in image synthesis, demonstrating the ability to generate high-quality images for a diverse range of text prompts. Despite this progress, most studies ignore the presence of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Nila Masrourisaadat , Nazanin Sedaghatkish , Fatemeh Sarshartehrani , Edward A. Fox

We introduce GenAgent, unifying visual understanding and generation through an agentic multimodal model. Unlike unified models that face expensive training costs and understanding-generation trade-offs, GenAgent decouples these capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaixun Jiang , Yuzheng Wang , Junjie Zhou , Pandeng Li , Zhihang Liu , Chen-Wei Xie , Zhaoyu Chen , Yun Zheng , Wenqiang Zhang

Text-to-image generative models are a new and powerful way to generate visual artwork. However, the open-ended nature of text as interaction is double-edged; while users can input anything and have access to an infinite range of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Vivian Liu , Lydia B. Chilton

Text-to-image synthesis aims to generate a photo-realistic and semantic consistent image from a specific text description. The images synthesized by off-the-shelf models usually contain limited components compared with the corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Qingrong Cheng , Keyu Wen , Xiaodong Gu

Recent years have seen impressive advances in text-to-image generation, with image generative or unified models producing high-quality images from text. Yet these models still struggle with fine-grained color controllability, often failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Muhammad Atif Butt , Alexandra Gomez-Villa , Tao Wu , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Joost Van De Weijer , Kai Wang