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In this paper, we propose an improved quantitative evaluation framework for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on generating domain-specific images, where we improve conventional evaluation methods on two levels: the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Shaohui Liu , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

This research addresses a critical challenge in the field of generative models, particularly in the generation and evaluation of synthetic images. Given the inherent complexity of generative models and the absence of a standardized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Majid Memari , Khaled R. Ahmed , Shahram Rahimi , Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

Although being widely adopted for evaluating generated audio signals, the Fr\'echet Audio Distance (FAD) suffers from significant limitations, including reliance on Gaussian assumptions, sensitivity to sample size, and high computational…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yoonjin Chung , Pilsun Eu , Junwon Lee , Keunwoo Choi , Juhan Nam , Ben Sangbae Chon

Evaluating the performance of generative models in image synthesis is a challenging task. Although the Fr\'echet Inception Distance is a widely accepted evaluation metric, it integrates different aspects (e.g., fidelity and diversity) of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ryoungwoo Jang , Minjee Kim , Da-in Eun , Kyungjin Cho , Jiyeon Seo , Namkug Kim

Assessing distances between images and image datasets is a fundamental task in vision-based research. It is a challenging open problem in the literature and despite the criticism it receives, the most ubiquitous method remains the Fr\'echet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Doruk Cetin , Benedikt Schesch , Petar Stamenkovic , Niko Benjamin Huber , Fabio Zünd , Majed El Helou

Text-to-Image (TTI) systems often support people during ideation, the early stages of a creative process when exposure to a broad set of relevant images can help explore the design space. Since ideation is an important subclass of TTI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Negar Arabzadeh , Fernando Diaz , Junfeng He

The evaluation of synthetic micro-structure images is an emerging problem as machine learning and materials science research have evolved together. Typical state of the art methods in evaluating synthetic images from generative models have…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-18 Devesh Shah , Anirudh Suresh , Alemayehu Admasu , Devesh Upadhyay , Kalyanmoy Deb

Implicit Generative Models (IGMs) such as GANs have emerged as effective data-driven models for generating samples, particularly images. In this paper, we formulate the problem of learning an IGM as minimizing the expected distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Abdul Fatir Ansari , Jonathan Scarlett , Harold Soh

Most evaluations of generative models rely on feature-distribution metrics such as FID, which operate on continuous recognition features that are explicitly trained to be invariant to appearance variations, and thus discard cues critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zexi Jia , Pengcheng Luo , Yijia Zhong , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Recent advances in text-to-image generators have led to substantial capabilities in image generation. However, the complexity of prompts acts as a bottleneck in the quality of images generated. A particular under-explored facet is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Tham Yik Foong , Shashank Kotyan , Po Yuan Mao , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Many recent developments on generative models for natural images have relied on heuristically-motivated metrics that can be easily gamed by memorizing a small sample from the true distribution or training a model directly to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ching-Yuan Bai , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Colin Raffel , Wendy Chih-wen Kan

Image quality evaluation accurately is vital in developing image stitching algorithms as it directly reflects the algorithms progress. However, commonly used objective indicators always produce inconsistent and even conflicting results with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Xinrui Zhang , Shengwei Guo , Guobing Sun

With success on controlled tasks, generative models are being increasingly applied to humanitarian applications [1,2]. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of a conditional generative model that illustrates the consequences of climate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Sharon Zhou , Alexandra Luccioni , Gautier Cosne , Michael S. Bernstein , Yoshua Bengio

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models in smart grids have advanced significantly in recent years due to their ability to generate large amounts of synthetic data, which would otherwise be difficult to obtain in the real world due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuting Cai , Shaohuai Liu , Chao Tian , Le Xie

This paper introduces the Global-Local Image Perceptual Score (GLIPS), an image metric designed to assess the photorealistic image quality of AI-generated images with a high degree of alignment to human visual perception. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Memoona Aziz , Umair Rehman , Muhammad Umair Danish , Katarina Grolinger

Text-to-image generation and image captioning are recently emerged as a new experimental paradigm to assess machine intelligence. They predict continuous quantity accompanied by their sampling techniques in the generation, making evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jin-Hwa Kim , Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Sang-Woo Lee

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) are finding increasingly widespread use in many application domains. Despite outstanding progress, quantitative evaluation of such models often involves multiple distinct metrics to assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Terrance DeVries , Adriana Romero , Luis Pineda , Graham W. Taylor , Michal Drozdzal

Leveraging the vision foundation models has emerged as a mainstream paradigm that improves the performance of image feature matching. However, previous works have ignored the misalignment when introducing the foundation models into feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yuhan Liu , Jingwen Fu , Yang Wu , Kangyi Wu , Pengna Li , Jiayi Wu , Sanping Zhou , Jingmin Xin

A commonly used evaluation metric for text-to-image synthesis is the Inception score (IS) \cite{inceptionscore}, which has been shown to be a quality metric that correlates well with human judgment. However, IS does not reveal properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 William Lund Sommer , Alexandros Iosifidis

The ability to understand visual concepts and replicate and compose these concepts from images is a central goal for computer vision. Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) models have lead to high definition and realistic image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Maitreya Patel , Tejas Gokhale , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang