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Story visualization is the transformation of narrative elements into image sequences. While existing research has primarily focused on visual contextual coherence, the deeper narrative essence of stories often remains overlooked. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Seungkwon Kim , GyuTae Park , Sangyeon Kim , Seung-Hun Nam

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their multimodal extensions (MLLMs) have substantially enhanced machine reasoning across diverse tasks. However, these models predominantly rely on pure text as the medium for both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yi Xu , Chengzu Li , Han Zhou , Xingchen Wan , Caiqi Zhang , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

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

Visual storytelling is an emerging field that combines images and narratives to create engaging and contextually rich stories. Despite its potential, generating coherent and emotionally resonant visual stories remains challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Xiaochuan Lin , Xiangyong Chen

Visual representation learning has been a cornerstone in computer vision, involving typical forms such as visual embeddings, structural symbols, and text-based representations. Despite the success of CLIP-type visual embeddings, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Michael R. Lyu , Liwei Wang

Natural language provides a widely accessible and expressive interface for robotic agents. To understand language in complex environments, agents must reason about the full range of language inputs and their correspondence to the world.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Stephanie Zhou , Alane Suhr , Yoav Artzi

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

We define "visual story-writing" as using visual representations of story elements to support writing and revising narrative texts. To demonstrate this approach, we developed a text editor that automatically visualizes a graph of entity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Damien Masson , Zixin Zhao , Fanny Chevalier

Spatial reasoning -- the ability to perceive and reason about relationships in space -- advances vision-language models (VLMs) from visual perception toward spatial semantic understanding. Existing approaches either revisit local image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weijian Ma , Shizhao Sun , Tianyu Yu , Ruiyu Wang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jiang Bian

Story visualization aims to generate a series of images that match the story described in texts, and it requires the generated images to satisfy high quality, alignment with the text description, and consistency in character identities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Wen Wang , Canyu Zhao , Hao Chen , Zhekai Chen , Kecheng Zheng , Chunhua Shen

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

Humans have an incredible ability to process and understand information from multiple sources such as images, video, text, and speech. Recent success of deep neural networks has enabled us to develop algorithms which give machines the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Dheeraj Peri , Shagan Sah , Raymond Ptucha

Characters are important in narratives. They move the plot forward, create emotional connections, and embody the story's themes. Visual storytelling methods focus more on the plot and events relating to it, without building the narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Danyang Liu , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

Bridging vision and natural language is a longstanding goal in computer vision and multimedia research. While earlier works focus on generating a single-sentence description for visual content, recent works have studied paragraph…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

Visual storytelling is a creative and challenging task, aiming to automatically generate a story-like description for a sequence of images. The descriptions generated by previous visual storytelling approaches lack coherence because they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Jing Su , Qingyun Dai , Frank Guerin , Mian Zhou

Visual narrative generation transforms textual narratives into sequences of images illustrating the content of the text. However, generating visual narratives that are faithful to the input text and self-consistent across generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Silin Gao , Sheryl Mathew , Li Mi , Sepideh Mamooler , Mengjie Zhao , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji , Syrielle Montariol , Antoine Bosselut

Story visualization aims to generate coherent image sequences that faithfully represent a narrative and match given character references. Despite progress in generative models, existing benchmarks remain narrow in scope, often limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Cailin Zhuang , Ailin Huang , Yaoqi Hu , Jingwei Wu , Wei Cheng , Jiaqi Liao , Hongyuan Wang , Xinyao Liao , Weiwei Cai , Hengyuan Xu , Xuanyang Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Zhewei Huang , Gang Yu , Chi Zhang

Different from Visual Question Answering task that requires to answer only one question about an image, Visual Dialogue involves multiple questions which cover a broad range of visual content that could be related to any objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xiaoze Jiang , Jing Yu , Zengchang Qin , Yingying Zhuang , Xingxing Zhang , Yue Hu , Qi Wu

Automated visual story generation aims to produce stories with corresponding illustrations that exhibit coherence, progression, and adherence to characters' emotional development. This work proposes a story generation pipeline to co-create…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yuetian Chen , Ruohua Li , Bowen Shi , Peiru Liu , Mei Si

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