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Text-to-image generation (TTI) refers to the usage of models that could process text input and generate high fidelity images based on text descriptions. Text-to-image generation using neural networks could be traced back to the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Fengxiang Bie , Yibo Yang , Zhongzhu Zhou , Adam Ghanem , Minjia Zhang , Zhewei Yao , Xiaoxia Wu , Connor Holmes , Pareesa Golnari , David A. Clifton , Yuxiong He , Dacheng Tao , Shuaiwen Leon Song

Text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have achieved rapid progress, yet their demographic biases, particularly gender bias, remain largely unexplored. We present FairT2V, a training-free debiasing framework for text-to-video generation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Haonan Zhong , Wei Song , Tingxu Han , Maurice Pagnucco , Jingling Xue , Yang Song

Multilingual text-to-image (T2I) models have advanced rapidly in terms of visual realism and semantic alignment, and are now widely utilized. Yet outputs vary across cultural contexts: because language carries cultural connotations, images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chuancheng Shi , Shangze Li , Shiming Guo , Simiao Xie , Wenhua Wu , Jingtong Dou , Chao Wu , Canran Xiao , Cong Wang , Zifeng Cheng , Fei Shen , Tat-Seng Chua

The excellent generative capabilities of text-to-image diffusion models suggest they learn informative representations of image-text data. However, what knowledge their representations capture is not fully understood, and they have not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Kevin Clark , Priyank Jaini

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion and flow-matching models can produce highly realistic images from natural language prompts. In practical scenarios, T2I systems are often run in a ``generate--then--select'' mode: many seeds are sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Huanlei Guo , Hongxin Wei , Bingyi Jing

While recent advancements in generative modeling have significantly improved text-image alignment, some residual misalignment between text and image representations still remains. Some approaches address this issue by fine-tuning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jaa-Yeon Lee , Byunghee Cha , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generative models has enabled high-quality image generation. As performance and accessibility increase, these models are gaining significant attraction and popularity: ensuring their fairness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Moreno D'Incà , Elia Peruzzo , Massimiliano Mancini , Xingqian Xu , Humphrey Shi , Nicu Sebe

Stable Diffusion has advanced text-to-image synthesis, but training models to generate images with accurate object quantity is still difficult due to the high computational cost and the challenge of teaching models the abstract concept of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yanyu Li , Pencheng Wan , Liang Han , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed worldview and restrict opportunities for minority groups. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xudong Shen , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

In the text-to-image generation field, recent remarkable progress in Stable Diffusion makes it possible to generate rich kinds of novel photorealistic images. However, current models still face misalignment issues (e.g., problematic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Leigang Qu , Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is primarily driven by Diffusion Models (DM) which rely on random Gaussian noise. Thus, like playing the slots at a casino, a DM will produce different results given the same user-defined inputs. This imposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Joong Ho Kim , Nicholas Thai , Souhardya Saha Dip , Dong Lao , Keith G. Mills

Deep Text-to-Image Synthesis (TIS) models such as Stable Diffusion have recently gained significant popularity for creative Text-to-image generation. Yet, for domain-specific scenarios, tuning-free Text-guided Image Editing (TIE) is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Bingyan Liu , Chengyu Wang , Tingfeng Cao , Kui Jia , Jun Huang

Bias discovery is critical for black-box generative models, especiall text-to-image (TTI) models. Existing works predominantly focus on output-level demographic distributions, which do not necessarily guarantee concept representations to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rajatsubhra Chakraborty , Xujun Che , Depeng Xu , Cori Faklaris , Xi Niu , Shuhan Yuan

Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable advancements in terms of image quality and fidelity to textual prompts. Concurrently, the safety of such generative models has become an area of growing concern. This work introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Tong Liu , Zhixin Lai , Jiawen Wang , Gengyuan Zhang , Shuo Chen , Philip Torr , Vera Demberg , Volker Tresp , Jindong Gu

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have rapidly advanced, enabling the generation of high-quality images that align closely with textual descriptions. However, this progress has also raised concerns about their misuse for propaganda and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jaechul Roh , Andrew Yuan , Jinsong Mao

A significant ``modality gap" exists between the abundance of text-only data and the increasing power of multimodal models. This work systematically investigates whether images generated on-the-fly by Text-to-Image (T2I) models can serve as…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yuesheng Huang , Peng Zhang , Xiaoxin Wu , Riliang Liu , Jiaqi Liang

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently enabled the creation of visually compelling, detailed images from textual prompts. However, their ability to accurately represent various cultural nuances remains an open question. In our work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zahra Bayramli , Ayhan Suleymanzade , Na Min An , Huzama Ahmad , Eunsu Kim , Junyeong Park , James Thorne , Alice Oh

Text-to-image (T2I) models are increasingly employed by users worldwide. However, prior research has pointed to the high sensitivity of T2I towards particular input languages - when faced with languages other than English (i.e., different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Carolin Holtermann , Florian Schneider , Anne Lauscher

Diffusion-based \textit{image-to-video} (I2V) generation has become a central direction in generative models by turning a reference image, with optional conditions, into a temporally coherent video. Compared with broader video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianlong Wang , Wenbo Pan , Shijia Zhou , Ke Li , Yuqi Wang , Zeyu Ye , Hangtao Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xiaohua Jia

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak