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Diffusion models when conditioned on text prompts, generate realistic-looking images with intricate details. But most of these pre-trained models fail to generate accurate images when it comes to human features like hands, teeth, etc. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Gurusha Juneja , Sukrit Kumar

Large vision-language model (LVLM) based text-to-image (T2I) systems have become the dominant paradigm in image generation, yet whether they amplify social biases remains insufficiently understood. In this paper, we show that LVLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 NaHyeon Park , Namin An , Kunhee Kim , Soyeon Yoon , Jiahao Huo , Hyunjung Shim

Recent advances in large text-conditional diffusion models have revolutionized image generation by enabling users to create realistic, high-quality images from textual prompts, significantly enhancing artistic creation and visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ali Naseh , Jaechul Roh , Eugene Bagdasarian , Amir Houmansadr

Recent progress in text-to-image (TTI) systems, such as StableDiffusion, Imagen, and DALL-E 2, have made it possible to create realistic images with simple text prompts. It is tempting to use these systems to eliminate the manual task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 David Marwood , Shumeet Baluja , Yair Alon

While prior research on text-to-image generation has predominantly focused on biases in human depictions, we investigate a more subtle yet pervasive phenomenon: demographic bias in generated objects (e.g., cars). We introduce SODA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dasol Choi , Jihwan Lee , Minjae Lee , Minsuk Kahng

Social media has exacerbated the promotion of Western beauty norms, leading to negative self-image, particularly in women and girls, and causing harm such as body dysmorphia. Increasingly content on the internet has been artificially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Tanvi Dinkar , Aiqi Jiang , Gavin Abercrombie , Ioannis Konstas

Personalized image generation via text prompts has great potential to improve daily life and professional work by facilitating the creation of customized visual content. The aim of image personalization is to create images based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingxiao Li , Tingyu Qu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens

The recent advancements in Generative AI have significantly advanced the field of text-to-image generation. The state-of-the-art text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion, is now capable of synthesizing high-quality images with a strong sense…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Zhijie Wang , Yuheng Huang , Da Song , Lei Ma , Tianyi Zhang

Most machine learning methods are known to capture and exploit biases of the training data. While some biases are beneficial for learning, others are harmful. Specifically, image captioning models tend to exaggerate biases present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Kaylee Burns , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

Researchers have devised numerous ways to quantify social biases vested in pretrained language models. As some language models are capable of generating coherent completions given a set of textual prompts, several prompting datasets have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Afra Feyza Akyürek , Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit , Sejin Paik , Derry Wijaya

The quality of the prompts provided to text-to-image diffusion models determines how faithful the generated content is to the user's intent, often requiring `prompt engineering'. To harness visual concepts from target images without prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shweta Mahajan , Tanzila Rahman , Kwang Moo Yi , Leonid Sigal

Generative models are now widely used by graphic designers and artists. Prior works have shown that these models remember and often replicate content from their training data during generation. Hence as their proliferation increases, it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Gowthami Somepalli , Anubhav Gupta , Kamal Gupta , Shramay Palta , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Abhinav Shrivastava , Tom Goldstein

Mitigating biases in generative AI and, particularly in text-to-image models, is of high importance given their growing implications in society. The biased datasets used for training pose challenges in ensuring the responsible development…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Carolina Lopez Olmos , Alexandros Neophytou , Sunando Sengupta , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Diffusion-based generative models' impressive ability to create convincing images has garnered global attention. However, their complex internal structures and operations often pose challenges for non-experts to grasp. We introduce…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Seongmin Lee , Benjamin Hoover , Hendrik Strobelt , Zijie J. Wang , ShengYun Peng , Austin Wright , Kevin Li , Haekyu Park , Haoyang Yang , Polo Chau

This paper examines potential biases and inconsistencies in emotional evocation of images produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) models and their potential bias toward negative emotions. In particular, we assess this bias by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maneet Mehta , Cody Buntain

Gender biases are known to exist within large-scale visual datasets and can be reflected or even amplified in downstream models. Many prior works have proposed methods for mitigating gender biases, often by attempting to remove gender…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nicole Meister , Dora Zhao , Angelina Wang , Vikram V. Ramaswamy , Ruth Fong , Olga Russakovsky

Following the initial excitement, Text-to-Image (TTI) models are now being examined more critically. While much of the discourse has focused on biases and stereotypes embedded in large-scale training datasets, the sociotechnical dynamics of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Maria-Teresa De Rosa Palmini , Eva Cetinic

Generative models have been widely studied in computer vision. Recently, diffusion models have drawn substantial attention due to the high quality of their generated images. A key desired property of image generative models is the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Ajinkya Kale , Trung Bui , Tong Yu , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-based approach to generate stereo images given a text prompt. Since stereo image datasets with large baselines are scarce, training a diffusion model from scratch is not feasible. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aakash Garg , Libing Zeng , Andrii Tsarov , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for image generation, however they still suffer from slow convergence in training and color shift issues in sampling. In this paper, we identify that these obstacles can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hu Yu , Li Shen , Jie Huang , Hongsheng Li , Feng Zhao