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Previous work on visual storytelling mainly focused on exploring image sequence as evidence for storytelling and neglected textual evidence for guiding story generation. Motivated by human storytelling process which recalls stories for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Tianyi Li , Sujian Li

We propose a new task, called Story Visualization. Given a multi-sentence paragraph, the story is visualized by generating a sequence of images, one for each sentence. In contrast to video generation, story visualization focuses less on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Yitong Li , Zhe Gan , Yelong Shen , Jingjing Liu , Yu Cheng , Yuexin Wu , Lawrence Carin , David Carlson , Jianfeng Gao

Image captioning aims at generating descriptive and meaningful textual descriptions of images, enabling a broad range of vision-language applications. Prior works have demonstrated that harnessing the power of Contrastive Image Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Longtian Qiu , Shan Ning , Xuming He

Creating engaging narratives from visual data is crucial for automated digital media consumption, assistive technologies, and interactive entertainment. This survey covers methodologies used in the generation of these narratives, focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniel A. P. Oliveira , Eugénio Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

Computational visual storytelling produces a textual description of events and interpretations depicted in a sequence of images. These texts are made possible by advances and cross-disciplinary approaches in natural language processing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Stephanie M. Lukin , Reginald Hobbs , Clare R. Voss

Story visualization advances the traditional text-to-image generation by enabling multiple image generation based on a complete story. This task requires machines to 1) understand long text inputs and 2) produce a globally consistent image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Hong Chen , Rujun Han , Te-Lin Wu , Hideki Nakayama , Nanyun Peng

One of the major challenges in training text-to-image generation models is the need of a large number of high-quality image-text pairs. While image samples are often easily accessible, the associated text descriptions typically require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Yufan Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Changyou Chen , Chunyuan Li , Chris Tensmeyer , Tong Yu , Jiuxiang Gu , Jinhui Xu , Tong Sun

Visual text evokes an image in a person's mind, while non-visual text fails to do so. A method to automatically detect visualness in text will enable text-to-image retrieval and generation models to augment text with relevant images. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Gaurav Verma , Ryan A. Rossi , Christopher Tensmeyer , Jiuxiang Gu , Ani Nenkova

Visual storytelling involves generating a sequence of coherent frames from a textual storyline while maintaining consistency in characters and scenes. Existing autoregressive methods, which rely on previous frame-sentence pairs, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sixiao Zheng , Yanwei Fu

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) methods are blossoming recently, and its crucial goal is to jointly learn visual and textual features via a transformer-based architecture, demonstrating promising improvements on a variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Weihan Wang , Zhen Yang , Bin Xu , Juanzi Li , Yankui Sun

In this paper, we explore the potential of visual in-context learning to enable a single model to handle multiple tasks and adapt to new tasks during test time without re-training. Unlike previous approaches, our focus is on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Simon Reiß , Zdravko Marinov , Alexander Jaus , Constantin Seibold , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Visual storytelling is the task of generating stories based on a sequence of images. Inspired by the recent works in neural generation focusing on controlling the form of text, this paper explores the idea of generating these stories in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Alan W Black

Visual storytelling (VST) is the task of generating a story paragraph that describes a given image sequence. Most existing storytelling approaches have evaluated their models using traditional natural language generation metrics like BLEU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Eileen Wang , Caren Han , Josiah Poon

Story visualization aims to generate a sequence of images to narrate each sentence in a multi-sentence story, where the images should be realistic and keep global consistency across dynamic scenes and characters. Current works face the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bowen Li , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Text-image-to-video (TI2V) generation is a critical problem for controllable video generation using both semantic and visual conditions. Most existing methods typically add visual conditions to text-to-video (T2V) foundation models by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bolin Lai , Sangmin Lee , Xu Cao , Xiang Li , James M. Rehg

The pre-trained image-text models, like CLIP, have demonstrated the strong power of vision-language representation learned from a large scale of web-collected image-text data. In light of the well-learned visual features, some existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Hongwei Xue , Yuchong Sun , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Houqiang Li , Jiebo Luo

Combining the visual modality with pretrained language models has been surprisingly effective for simple descriptive tasks such as image captioning. More general text generation however remains elusive. We take a step back and ask: How do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shruti Palaskar , Akshita Bhagia , Yonatan Bisk , Florian Metze , Alan W Black , Ana Marasović

Visual storytelling aims to automatically generate a coherent story based on a given image sequence. Unlike tasks like image captioning, visual stories should contain factual descriptions, worldviews, and human social commonsense to put…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Eileen Wang , Soyeon Caren Han , Josiah Poon

Multimodal story customization aims to generate coherent story flows conditioned on textual descriptions, reference identity images, and shot types. While recent progress in story generation has shown promising results, most approaches rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wei-Hua Li , Cheng Sun , Chu-Song Chen

One of the primary challenges of visual storytelling is developing techniques that can maintain the context of the story over long event sequences to generate human-like stories. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Md Sultan Al Nahian , Tasmia Tasrin , Sagar Gandhi , Ryan Gaines , Brent Harrison