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Recent text-to-image (T2I) models have exhibited remarkable performance in generating high-quality images from text descriptions. However, these models are vulnerable to misuse, particularly generating not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lingzhi Yuan , Xinfeng Li , Chejian Xu , Guanhong Tao , Xiaojun Jia , Yihao Huang , Wei Dong , Yang Liu , Bo Li

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have gained increased popularity in the public domain. While boasting impressive user-guided generative abilities, their black-box nature exposes users to intentionally- and intrinsically-biased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard approach for post-training large language models and, more recently, for improving image generation models, which uses reward functions to enhance generation quality and human preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yunqi Hong , Kuei-Chun Kao , Hengguang Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of image synthesis, yet they have also introduced serious safety concerns, particularly the generation of Not Safe for Work (NSFW) content. Previous research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yaopei Zeng , Yuanpu Cao , Bochuan Cao , Yurui Chang , Jinghui Chen , Lu Lin

Current text-to-image (T2I) generation models achieve promising results, but they fail on the scenarios where the knowledge implied in the text prompt is uncertain. For example, a T2I model released in February would struggle to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Chuanhao Li , Jianwen Sun , Yukang Feng , Mingliang Zhai , Yifan Chang , Kaipeng Zhang

Text-to-image generation has seen an explosion of interest since 2021. Today, beautiful and intriguing digital images and artworks can be synthesized from textual inputs ("prompts") with deep generative models. Online communities around…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jonas Oppenlaender

Neural image classifiers are known to undergo severe performance degradation when exposed to inputs that are sampled from environmental conditions that differ from their training data. Given the recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jianhao Yuan , Francesco Pinto , Adam Davies , Philip Torr

Despite advancements in text-to-image generation (T2I), prior methods often face text-image misalignment problems such as relation confusion in generated images. Existing solutions involve cross-attention manipulation for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Leigang Qu , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Hanwang Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, yet remain vulnerable to generating unsafe content. Existing safety defenses typically intervene internally within the generative model, but suffer from severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiangtao Meng , Yingkai Dong , Ning Yu , Li Wang , Zheng Li , Shanqing Guo

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) has led to an increased presence of AI-generated images in daily life. However, biased T2I models can generate content with specific tendencies, potentially influencing people's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Huayang Huang , Xiangye Jin , Jiaxu Miao , Yu Wu

Text-to-image generation models are powerful but difficult to use. Users craft specific prompts to get better images, though the images can be repetitive. This paper proposes a Prompt Expansion framework that helps users generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Siddhartha Datta , Alexander Ku , Deepak Ramachandran , Peter Anderson

As text-to-image (T2I) models advance and gain widespread adoption, their associated safety concerns are becoming increasingly critical. Malicious users exploit these models to generate Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images using harmful or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yiming Wang , Jiahao Chen , Qingming Li , Tong Zhang , Rui Zeng , Xing Yang , Shouling Ji

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models can create vivid, realistic images from textual descriptions. As these models proliferate, they expose new concerns about their ability to represent diverse demographic groups, propagate stereotypes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sangwon Jung , Alex Oesterling , Claudio Mayrink Verdun , Sajani Vithana , Taesup Moon , Flavio P. Calmon

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have recently gained significant attention due to their ability to generate high-quality images and are consequently used in a wide range of applications. However, there are concerns about the gender bias of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yunbo Lyu , Zhou Yang , Yuqing Niu , Jing Jiang , David Lo

In this paper, we present an empirical study introducing a nuanced evaluation framework for text-to-image (T2I) generative models, applied to human image synthesis. Our framework categorizes evaluations into two distinct groups: first,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Muxi Chen , Yi Liu , Jian Yi , Changran Xu , Qiuxia Lai , Hongliang Wang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qiang Xu

In recent years, Text-to-Image (T2I) models have seen remarkable advancements, gaining widespread adoption. However, this progress has inadvertently opened avenues for potential misuse, particularly in generating inappropriate or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yijun Yang , Ruiyuan Gao , Xiaosen Wang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Nan Xu , Qiang Xu

Novel research aimed at text-to-image (T2I) generative AI safety often relies on publicly available datasets for training and evaluation, making the quality and composition of these datasets crucial. This paper presents a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rakeen Rouf , Trupti Bavalatti , Osama Ahmed , Dhaval Potdar , Faraz Jawed

With the help of conditioning mechanisms, the state-of-the-art diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in guided image generation, particularly in text-to-image synthesis. To gain a better understanding of the training process and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Shengfang Zhai , Yinpeng Dong , Qingni Shen , Shi Pu , Yuejian Fang , Hang Su

Large-scale pre-trained generative models are taking the world by storm, due to their abilities in generating creative content. Meanwhile, safeguards for these generative models are developed, to protect users' rights and safety, most of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Guanlin Li , Kangjie Chen , Shudong Zhang , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang

Despite the integration of safety alignment and external filters, text-to-image (T2I) generative systems are still susceptible to producing harmful content, such as sexual or violent imagery. This raises serious concerns about unintended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Boheng Li , Junjie Wang , Yiming Li , Zhiyang Hu , Leyi Qi , Jianshuo Dong , Run Wang , Han Qiu , Zhan Qin , Tianwei Zhang