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Recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generative models has enabled high-quality image generation. As performance and accessibility increase, these models are gaining significant attraction and popularity: ensuring their fairness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Moreno D'Incà , Elia Peruzzo , Massimiliano Mancini , Xingqian Xu , Humphrey Shi , Nicu Sebe

The unprecedented photorealistic results achieved by recent text-to-image generative systems and their increasing use as plug-and-play content creation solutions make it crucial to understand their potential biases. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Melissa Hall , Candace Ross , Adina Williams , Nicolas Carion , Michal Drozdzal , Adriana Romero Soriano

Model-based evaluation metrics (e.g., CLIPScore and GPTScore) have demonstrated decent correlations with human judgments in various language generation tasks. However, their impact on fairness remains largely unexplored. It is widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Haoyi Qiu , Zi-Yi Dou , Tianlu Wang , Asli Celikyilmaz , Nanyun Peng

Cutting-edge image generation has been praised for producing high-quality images, suggesting a ubiquitous future in a variety of applications. However, initial studies have pointed to the potential for harm due to predictive bias,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Eddie L. Ungless , Björn Ross , Anne Lauscher

Naturalistic scenes are of key interest for visual perception, but controlling their perceptual and semantic properties is challenging. Previous work on naturalistic scenes has frequently focused on collections of discrete images with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-18 Leonardo Pettini , Carsten Bogler , Christian Doeller , John-Dylan Haynes

Latent diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images from text. Yet, concerns appear about the lack of diversity in the generated imagery. To tackle this, we introduce Diverse Diffusion, a method for boosting image diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Recent progress in generative AI, especially diffusion models, has demonstrated significant utility in text-to-image synthesis. Particularly in healthcare, these models offer immense potential in generating synthetic datasets and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yan Luo , Muhammad Osama Khan , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Muneeb Afzal , Titus Fidelis Wuermeling , Min Shi , Yu Tian , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Internet search affects people's cognition of the world, so mitigating biases in search results and learning fair models is imperative for social good. We study a unique gender bias in image search in this work: the search images are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jialu Wang , Yang Liu , Xin Eric Wang

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models achieve impressive visual fidelity but inherit and amplify demographic imbalances and cultural biases embedded in training data. We introduce T2I-BiasBench, a unified evaluation framework of thirteen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Nihal Jaiswal , Siddhartha Arjaria , Gyanendra Chaubey , Ankush Kumar , Aditya Singh , Anchal Chaurasiya

Image generation using generative AI is rapidly becoming a major new source of visual media, with billions of AI generated images created using diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney over the last few years. In this paper…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jon McCormack , Maria Teresa Llano , Stephen James Krol , Nina Rajcic

Diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in synthetic data generation and image editing applications. However, these models can amplify existing biases and propagate them to downstream applications. Therefore, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Malsha V. Perera , Vishal M. Patel

Generative AI, such as large language models, has undergone rapid development within recent years. As these models become increasingly available to the public, concerns arise about perpetuating and amplifying harmful biases in applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Sara Sterlie , Nina Weng , Aasa Feragen

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently shown immense qualitative success using denoising diffusion processes. However, unlike discriminative vision-and-language models, it is a non-trivial task to subject these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Benno Krojer , Elinor Poole-Dayan , Vikram Voleti , Christopher Pal , Siva Reddy

Text-to-image diffusion models generate images by iteratively denoising random noise, conditioned on a prompt. While these models have enabled impressive progress in image generation, they often fail to accurately reflect all semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nicola Bernold , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alice Bizeul , Julia E. Vogt

Prompting has become an important mechanism by which users can more effectively interact with many flavors of foundation model. Indeed, the last several years have shown that well-honed prompts can sometimes unlock emergent capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Henry Kvinge , Davis Brown , Charles Godfrey

Recursive prompting with large language models enables scalable synthetic dataset generation but introduces the risk of bias amplification. We investigate gender bias dynamics across three generations of recursive text generation using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ashish Kattamuri , Arpita Vats , Harshwardhan Fartale , Rahul Raja , Akshata Kishore Moharir , Ishita Prasad

In layout-to-image (L2I) synthesis, controlled complex scenes are generated from coarse information like bounding boxes. Such a task is exciting to many downstream applications because the input layouts offer strong guidance to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ruyu Wang , Xuefeng Hou , Sabrina Schmedding , Marco F. Huber

Diffusion Models are a potent class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images. However, they often inadvertently favor certain data attributes, undermining the diversity of generated images. This issue is starkly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xingzhe Su , Daixi Jia , Fengge Wu , Junsuo Zhao , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

The advent of text-to-video generation models has revolutionized content creation as it produces high-quality videos from textual prompts. However, concerns regarding inherent biases in such models have prompted scrutiny, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Mohammad Nadeem , Shahab Saquib Sohail , Erik Cambria , Björn W. Schuller , Amir Hussain

In this paper, we investigate when and how visual representations learned by two different generative models diverge. Given two text-to-image models, our goal is to discover visual attributes that appear in images generated by one model but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lisa Dunlap , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell