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While text-to-image (T2I) models can synthesize high-quality images, their performance degrades significantly when prompted with novel or out-of-distribution (OOD) entities due to inherent knowledge cutoffs. We introduce World-To-Image, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Moo Hyun Son , Jintaek Oh , Sun Bin Mun , Jaechul Roh , Sehyun Choi

Despite the impressive synthesis quality of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, their black-box deployment poses significant regulatory challenges: Malicious actors can fine-tune these models to generate illegal content, circumventing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhuomeng Zhang , Fangqi Li , Chong Di , Hongyu Zhu , Hanyi Wang , Shilin Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models have been widely adopted in real-world applications due to their ability to generate realistic images from textual descriptions. However, recent studies have shown that these methods are vulnerable to backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Oscar Chew , Po-Yi Lu , Jayden Lin , Hsuan-Tien Lin

TIPO (Text-to-Image Prompt Optimization) introduces an efficient approach for automatic prompt refinement in text-to-image (T2I) generation. Starting from simple user prompts, TIPO leverages a lightweight pre-trained model to expand these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shih-Ying Yeh , Yi Li , Sang-Hyun Park , Giyeong Oh , Xuehai Wang , Min Song , Youngjae Yu , Shang-Hong Lai

Today's text-to-image generative models are trained on millions of images sourced from the Internet, each paired with a detailed caption produced by Vision-Language Models (VLMs). This part of the training pipeline is critical for supplying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Stanley Wu , Ronik Bhaskar , Anna Yoo Jeong Ha , Shawn Shan , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

As text-to-image generative models rapidly improve, AI researchers are making significant advances in developing domain-specific models capable of generating complex medical imagery from text prompts. Despite this, these technical…

Text-to-image generative models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality images based on textual prompts. However, crafting prompts that accurately capture the user's creative intent remains challenging. It often…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Stephen Brade , Bryan Wang , Mauricio Sousa , Sageev Oore , Tovi Grossman

The revolution of artificial intelligence content generation has been rapidly accelerated with the booming text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models. Within just two years of development, it was unprecedentedly of high-quality, diversity, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zeqiang Lai , Xizhou Zhu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Wenhai Wang

Text-to-image generative models often present issues regarding fairness with respect to certain sensitive attributes, such as gender or skin tone. This study aims to reproduce the results presented in "ITI-GEN: Inclusive Text-to-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Daniel Gallo Fernández , Răzvan-Andrei Matisan , Alejandro Monroy Muñoz , Janusz Partyka

Modern text-to-image (T2I) generation systems (e.g., DALL$\cdot$E 3) exploit the memory mechanism, which captures key information in multi-turn interactions for faithful generation. Despite its practicality, the security analyses of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Shiqian Zhao , Jiayang Liu , Yiming Li , Runyi Hu , Xiaojun Jia , Wenshu Fan , Xiao Bao , Xinfeng Li , Jie Zhang , Wei Dong , Tianwei Zhang , Luu Anh Tuan

With significant advances in generative AI, new technologies are rapidly being deployed with generative components. Generative models are typically trained on large datasets, resulting in model behaviors that can mimic the worst of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Susan Hao , Piyush Kumar , Sarah Laszlo , Shivani Poddar , Bhaktipriya Radharapu , Renee Shelby

When humans read a specific text, they often visualize the corresponding images, and we hope that computers can do the same. Text-to-image synthesis (T2I), which focuses on generating high-quality images from textual descriptions, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Nonghai Zhang , Hao Tang

The steady improvements of text-to-image (T2I) generative models lead to slow deprecation of automatic evaluation benchmarks that rely on static datasets, motivating researchers to seek alternative ways to evaluate the T2I progress. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiahui Chen , Candace Ross , Reyhane Askari-Hemmat , Koustuv Sinha , Melissa Hall , Michal Drozdzal , Adriana Romero-Soriano

In language and vision-language models, hallucination is broadly understood as content generated from a model's prior knowledge or biases rather than from the given input. While this phenomenon has been studied in those domains, it has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seyed Amir Kasaei , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Text-to-image generative models can produce diverse high-quality images of concepts with a text prompt, which have demonstrated excellent ability in image generation, image translation, etc. We in this work study the problem of synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Gan Sun , Wenqi Liang , Jiahua Dong , Jun Li , Zhengming Ding , Yang Cong

Text-to-image generation models have recently attracted unprecedented attention as they unlatch imaginative applications in all areas of life. However, developing such models requires huge amounts of data that might contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

AI safety is a rapidly growing area of research that seeks to prevent the harm and misuse of frontier AI technology, particularly with respect to generative AI (GenAI) tools that are capable of creating realistic and high-quality content…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Pin-Yu Chen

Text-to-image generation (T2I) refers to the text-guided generation of high-quality images. In the past few years, T2I has attracted widespread attention and numerous works have emerged. In this survey, we comprehensively review 141 works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Pengfei Yang , Ngai-Man Cheung , Xinda Ma

Text-to-image (T2I) models are widespread, but their limited safety guardrails expose end users to harmful content and potentially allow for model misuse. Current safety measures are typically limited to text-based filtering or concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Runtao Liu , I Chieh Chen , Jindong Gu , Jipeng Zhang , Renjie Pi , Qifeng Chen , Philip Torr , Ashkan Khakzar , Fabio Pizzati

Text-to-image models are increasingly popular and impactful, yet concerns regarding their safety and fairness remain. This study investigates the ability of ten popular Stable Diffusion models to generate harmful images, including NSFW,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Matthias Schneider , Thilo Hagendorff