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Nowadays, scene text recognition has attracted more and more attention due to its diverse applications. Most state-of-the-art methods adopt an encoder-decoder framework with the attention mechanism, autoregressively generating text from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xiaomeng Yang , Zhi Qiao , Yu Zhou

In this paper, we present DesignDiffusion, a simple yet effective framework for the novel task of synthesizing design images from textual descriptions. A primary challenge lies in generating accurate and style-consistent textual and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhendong Wang , Jianmin Bao , Shuyang Gu , Dong Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

This study aims to investigate the challenge of insufficient three-dimensional context in synthetic datasets for scene text rendering. Although recent advances in diffusion models and related techniques have improved certain aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Li-Syun Hsiung , Jun-Kai Tu , Kuan-Wu Chu , Yu-Hsuan Chiu , Yan-Tsung Peng , Sheng-Luen Chung , Gee-Sern Jison Hsu

In this paper, we present a novel paradigm to enhance the ability of object detector, e.g., expanding categories or improving detection performance, by training on synthetic dataset generated from diffusion models. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chengjian Feng , Yujie Zhong , Zequn Jie , Weidi Xie , Lin Ma

With the development of deep neural networks, the demand for a significant amount of annotated training data becomes the performance bottlenecks in many fields of research and applications. Image synthesis can generate annotated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Minghui Liao , Boyu Song , Shangbang Long , Minghang He , Cong Yao , Xiang Bai

For successful scene text recognition (STR) models, synthetic text image generators have alleviated the lack of annotated text images from the real world. Specifically, they generate multiple text images with diverse backgrounds, font…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Moonbin Yim , Yoonsik Kim , Han-Cheol Cho , Sungrae Park

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ivona Najdenkoska , Animesh Sinha , Abhimanyu Dubey , Dhruv Mahajan , Vignesh Ramanathan , Filip Radenovic

We propose a new paradigm to automatically generate training data with accurate labels at scale using the text-to-image synthesis frameworks (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc.). The proposed approach1 decouples training data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yunhao Ge , Jiashu Xu , Brian Nlong Zhao , Neel Joshi , Laurent Itti , Vibhav Vineet

Diffusion model based Text-to-Image has achieved impressive achievements recently. Although current technology for synthesizing images is highly advanced and capable of generating images with high fidelity, it is still possible to give the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yuxiang Tuo , Wangmeng Xiang , Jun-Yan He , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Diffusion models have become a new generative paradigm for text generation. Considering the discrete categorical nature of text, in this paper, we propose GlyphDiffusion, a novel diffusion approach for text generation via text-guided image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Over the past decade, there has been tremendous progress in creating synthetic media, mainly thanks to the development of powerful methods based on generative adversarial networks (GAN). Very recently, methods based on diffusion models (DM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giada Zingarini , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

Scene text erasing, which replaces text regions with reasonable content in natural images, has drawn significant attention in the computer vision community in recent years. There are two potential subtasks in scene text erasing: text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Zhengmi Tang , Tomo Miyazaki , Yoshihiro Sugaya , Shinichiro Omachi

While diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation with their ability to synthesize realistic and diverse scenes, they continue to struggle to generate consistent and legible text within images. This shortcoming is commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tianyu Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Lu Li , Zhenghan Tai , Jijun Chi , Jingrui Tian , Hailin He , Suyuchen Wang

We demonstrate that pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, despite being trained on raster images, possess a remarkable capacity to guide vector sketch synthesis. In this paper, we introduce DiffSketcher, a novel algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ximing Xing , Chuang Wang , Haitao Zhou , Jing Zhang , Qian Yu , Dong Xu

A large number of annotated training images is crucial for training successful scene text recognition models. However, collecting sufficient datasets can be a labor-intensive and costly process, particularly for low-resource languages. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yangchen Xie , Xinyuan Chen , Hongjian Zhan , Palaiahankote Shivakum , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Yue Lu

Diffusion models, known for their impressive image generation abilities, have played a pivotal role in the rise of visual text generation. Nevertheless, existing visual text generation methods often focus on generating entire images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zhenhang Li , Yan Shu , Weichao Zeng , Dongbao Yang , Yu Zhou

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

The requirement of large amounts of annotated images has become one grand challenge while training deep neural network models for various visual detection and recognition tasks. This paper presents a novel image synthesis technique that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Chuhui Xue

We propose a method for scene-level sketch-to-photo synthesis with text guidance. Although object-level sketch-to-photo synthesis has been widely studied, whole-scene synthesis is still challenging without reference photos that adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Makoto Shing , Kentaro Mitsui , Kei Sawada , Fumio Okura

Diffusion-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, one critical limitation of these models is the low fidelity of generated images with respect to the text description, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang