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Text-to-Image (T2I) has been prevalent in recent years, with most common condition tasks having been optimized nicely. Besides, counterfactual Text-to-Image is obstructing us from a more versatile AIGC experience. For those scenes that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sifan Li , Ming Tao , Hao Zhao , Ling Shao , Hao Tang

Recently, the strong latent Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has been applied to high-quality Text-to-Image (T2I) generation (e.g., Stable Diffusion), by injecting the encoded target text prompt into the gradually denoised diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mingyang Yi , Aoxue Li , Yi Xin , Zhenguo Li

State-of-the-art Diffusion Models (DMs) produce highly realistic images. While prior work has successfully mitigated Not Safe For Work (NSFW) content in the visual domain, we identify a novel threat: the generation of NSFW text embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Aditya Kumar , Tom Blanchard , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

Text-to-image generative models have made remarkable progress in producing high-quality visual content from textual descriptions, yet concerns remain about how they represent social groups. While characteristics like gender and race have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yang Tian , Yu Fan , Liudmila Zavolokina , Sarah Ebling

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer significant promise for improving breast cancer diagnosis in medical imaging. However, these models are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks--small, imperceptible changes that can mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yasamin Medghalchi , Moein Heidari , Clayton Allard , Leonid Sigal , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Generative AI image models may inadvertently generate problematic representations of people. Past research has noted that millions of users engage daily across the world with these models and that the models, including through problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Susan Epstein , Li Chen , Alessandro Vecchiato , Ankit Jain

Text-to-Image (T2I) Diffusion Models (DMs) have garnered widespread attention for their impressive advancements in image generation. However, their growing popularity has raised ethical and social concerns related to key non-functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yi Zhang , Zhen Chen , Chih-Hong Cheng , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Dezong Zhao , David Flynn , Siddartha Khastgir , Xingyu Zhao

Recent advances in Machine-Learning have led to the development of models that generate images based on a text description.Such large prompt-based text to image models (TTIs), trained on a considerable amount of data, allow the creation of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Chinmay Kulkarni , Stefania Druga , Minsuk Chang , Alex Fiannaca , Carrie Cai , Michael Terry

We investigate the generation of minority samples using pretrained text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models. Minority instances, in the context of T2I generation, can be defined as ones living on low-density regions of text-conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Soobin Um , Jong Chul Ye

Prompt engineering is an effective but labor-intensive way to control text-to-image (T2I) generative models. Its time-intensive nature and complexity have spurred the development of algorithms for automated prompt generation. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yutong He , Alexander Robey , Naoki Murata , Yiding Jiang , Joshua Nathaniel Williams , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani , Yuki Mitsufuji , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , J. Zico Kolter

Text-to-Image (T2I) models generate high-quality images but are vulnerable to malicious backdoor attacks that inject harmful biases (e.g., trigger-activated gender or racial stereotypes). Existing debiasing methods, often designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hongyi Cai , Mohammad Mahdinur Rahman , Mingkang Dong , Muxin Pu , Moqyad Alqaily , Jie Li , Xinfeng Li , Jialie Shen , Meikang Qiu , Qingsong Wen

The popularization of Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models enables the generation of high-quality images from text descriptions. However, generating diverse customized images with reference visual attributes remains challenging. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Brian Nlong Zhao , Yuhang Xiao , Jiashu Xu , Xinyang Jiang , Yifan Yang , Dongsheng Li , Laurent Itti , Vibhav Vineet , Yunhao Ge

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

With the ongoing rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based systems in high-stakes domains, ensuring the trustworthiness, safety, and observability of these systems has become crucial. It is essential to evaluate and monitor AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Ankur Taly

Text-to-image generative models excel in creating images from text but struggle with ensuring alignment and consistency between outputs and prompts. This paper introduces TextMatch, a novel framework that leverages multimodal optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yucong Luo , Mingyue Cheng , Jie Ouyang , Xiaoyu Tao , Qi Liu

We introduce ``Idea to Image,'' a system that enables multimodal iterative self-refinement with GPT-4V(ision) for automatic image design and generation. Humans can quickly identify the characteristics of different text-to-image (T2I) models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhengyuan Yang , Jianfeng Wang , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Chung-Ching Lin , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Image editing aims to edit the given synthetic or real image to meet the specific requirements from users. It is widely studied in recent years as a promising and challenging field of Artificial Intelligence Generative Content (AIGC).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xincheng Shuai , Henghui Ding , Xingjun Ma , Rongcheng Tu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Dacheng Tao

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced critical security challenges, where adversarial actors can manipulate input prompts to cause significant harm and circumvent safety alignments. These prompt-based attacks…

Generative artificial intelligence models show an amazing performance creating unique content automatically just by being given a prompt by the user, which is revolutionizing several fields such as marketing and design. Not only are there…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Adriana Fernández de Caleya Vázquez , Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

Text-to-Image (T2I) models, represented by DALL$\cdot$E and Midjourney, have gained huge popularity for creating realistic images. The quality of these images relies on the carefully engineered prompts, which have become valuable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Shiqian Zhao , Chong Wang , Yiming Li , Yihao Huang , Wenjie Qu , Siew-Kei Lam , Yi Xie , Kangjie Chen , Jie Zhang , Tianwei Zhang