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Automatic description generation from natural images is a challenging problem that has recently received a large amount of interest from the computer vision and natural language processing communities. In this survey, we classify the…

Creativity of generative AI models has been a subject of scientific debate in the last years, without a conclusive answer. In this paper, we study creativity from a practical perspective and introduce quantitative measures that help the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Aditi Ramaswamy , Hana Chockler , Melane Navaratnarajah

One of the biggest challenges in machine learning is data collection. Training data is an important part since it determines how the model will behave. In object classification, capturing a large number of images per object and in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 August Baaz , Yonan Yonan , Kevin Hernandez-Diaz , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Felix Nilsson

Image recognition/classification is a widely studied problem, but its reverse problem, image generation, has drawn much less attention until recently. But the vast majority of current methods for image generation require training/retraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Haoyang Li

We study how to generate captions that are not only accurate in describing an image but also discriminative across different images. The problem is both fundamental and interesting, as most machine-generated captions, despite phenomenal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Dianqi Li , Qiuyuan Huang , Xiaodong He , Lei Zhang , Ming-Ting Sun

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances, the realism of AI generated imagery has reached a threshold capable of deceiving even vigilant human observers. Yet, while current AI-generated Image Detection (AID) approaches perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Despina Konstantinidou , Dimitrios Karageorgiou , Christos Koutlis , Olga Papadopoulou , Emmanouil Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos

Realistic image manipulation is challenging because it requires modifying the image appearance in a user-controlled way, while preserving the realism of the result. Unless the user has considerable artistic skill, it is easy to "fall off"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jun-Yan Zhu , Philipp Krähenbühl , Eli Shechtman , Alexei A. Efros

The quality of image generation and manipulation is reaching impressive levels, making it increasingly difficult for a human to distinguish between what is real and what is fake. However, deep networks can still pick up on the subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Lucy Chai , David Bau , Ser-Nam Lim , Phillip Isola

The continued release of increasingly realistic image generation models creates a demand for synthetic image detectors. To build effective detectors we must first understand how factors like data source diversity, training methodologies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Pablo Bernabeu-Perez , Enrique Lopez-Cuena , Dario Garcia-Gasulla

Image captioning, which generates natural language descriptions of the visual information in an image, is a crucial task in vision-language research. Previous models have typically addressed this task by aligning the generative capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xinting Huang , Yuchen Ren

The rapid advancements in AI technologies have revolutionized the production of graphical content across various sectors, including entertainment, advertising, and e-commerce. These developments have spurred the need for robust evaluation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Memoona Aziz , Umair Rehman , Syed Ali Safi , Amir Zaib Abbasi

Previous work has suggested that preprocessing images through lossy compression can defend against adversarial perturbations, but comprehensive attack evaluations have been lacking. In this paper, we construct strong white-box and adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Samuel Räber , Till Aczel , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

Detecting AI generated images is a challenging yet essential task. A primary difficulty arises from the detectors tendency to rely on spurious patterns, such as compression artifacts, which can influence its decisions. These issues often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Yong Jae Lee

Counterfactuals are a popular framework for interpreting machine learning predictions. These what if explanations are notoriously challenging to create for computer vision models: standard gradient-based methods are prone to produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jeremy Goldwasser , Giles Hooker

Diffusion model-generated images can appear indistinguishable from authentic photographs, but these images often contain artifacts and implausibilities that reveal their AI-generated provenance. Given the challenge to public trust in media…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Negar Kamali , Karyn Nakamura , Aakriti Kumar , Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Jessica Hullman , Matthew Groh

The ability of image and video generation models to create photorealistic images has reached unprecedented heights, making it difficult to distinguish between real and fake images in many cases. However, despite this progress, a gap remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Ali Borji

Efficient rendering of photo-realistic virtual worlds is a long standing effort of computer graphics. Modern graphics techniques have succeeded in synthesizing photo-realistic images from hand-crafted scene representations. However, the…

Realistic image synthesis is to generate an image that is perceptually indistinguishable from an actual image. Generating realistic looking images with large variations (e.g., large spatial deformations and large pose change), however, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Minho Park , Hak Gu Kim , Yong Man Ro

While generative adversarial networks (GAN) have been widely adopted in various topics, in this paper we generalize the standard GAN to a new perspective by treating realness as a random variable that can be estimated from multiple angles.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yuanbo Xiangli , Yubin Deng , Bo Dai , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin

The widespread and rapid adoption of AI-generated content, created by models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Diffusion Models, has revolutionized the digital media landscape by allowing efficient and creative content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aadi Srivastava , Vignesh Natarajkumar , Utkarsh Bheemanaboyna , Devisree Akashapu , Nagraj Gaonkar , Archit Joshi