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Story generation is a challenging task, which demands to maintain consistency of the plots and characters throughout the story. Previous works have shown that GPT2, a large-scale language model, has achieved good performance on story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Wei Wang , Piji Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

Recent visual generative models enable story generation with consistent characters from text, but human-centric story generation faces additional challenges, such as maintaining detailed and diverse human face consistency and coordinating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Guibao Shen , Quande Liu , Jialin Gao , Lihao Liu , Lan Du , Cunjian Chen , Chi-Wing Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Pheng-Ann Heng

We study narrative coherence in visually grounded stories by comparing human-written narratives with those generated by vision-language models (VLMs) on the Visual Writing Prompts corpus. Using a set of metrics that capture different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nikolai Ilinykh , Hyewon Jang , Shalom Lappin , Asad Sayeed , Sharid Loáiciga

We demonstrate that large multimodal language models differ substantially from humans in the distribution of coreferential expressions in a visual storytelling task. We introduce a number of metrics to quantify the characteristics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Nikolai Ilinykh , Shalom Lappin , Asad Sayeed , Sharid Loáiciga

Visual storytelling consists in generating a natural language story given a temporally ordered sequence of images. This task is not only challenging for models, but also very difficult to evaluate with automatic metrics since there is no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Aditya K Surikuchi , Raquel Fernández , Sandro Pezzelle

As a cross-modal task, visual storytelling aims to generate a story for an ordered image sequence automatically. Different from the image captioning task, visual storytelling requires not only modeling the relationships between objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Weiran Chen , Xin Li , Jiaqi Su , Guiqian Zhu , Ying Li , Yi Ji , Chunping Liu

Recent advances in text-to-image generation models have unlocked vast potential for visual creativity. However, the users that use these models struggle with the generation of consistent characters, a crucial aspect for numerous real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Omri Avrahami , Amir Hertz , Yael Vinker , Moab Arar , Shlomi Fruchter , Ohad Fried , Daniel Cohen-Or , Dani Lischinski

Story visualization aims to generate a sequence of images to narrate each sentence in a multi-sentence story with a global consistency across dynamic scenes and characters. Current works still struggle with output images' quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Bowen Li , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Automated visual story generation aims to produce stories with corresponding illustrations that exhibit coherence, progression, and adherence to characters' emotional development. This work proposes a story generation pipeline to co-create…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yuetian Chen , Ruohua Li , Bowen Shi , Peiru Liu , Mei Si

Coreference resolution aims to identify words and phrases which refer to same entity in a text, a core task in natural language processing. In this paper, we extend this task to resolving coreferences in long-form narrations of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Arushi Goel , Basura Fernando , Frank Keller , Hakan Bilen

Story Visualization aims to generate images aligned with story prompts, reflecting the coherence of storybooks through visual consistency among characters and scenes.Whereas current approaches exclusively concentrate on characters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Sitong Su , Litao Guo , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Creating engaging narratives from visual data is crucial for automated digital media consumption, assistive technologies, and interactive entertainment. This survey covers methodologies used in the generation of these narratives, focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniel A. P. Oliveira , Eugénio Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

Visual storytelling systems struggle to maintain character identity across frames and link actions to appropriate subjects, frequently leading to referential hallucinations. These issues can be addressed through grounding of characters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniel A. P. Oliveira , David Martins de Matos

Dialogue participants often refer to entities or situations repeatedly within a conversation, which contributes to its cohesiveness. Subsequent references exploit the common ground accumulated by the interlocutors and hence have several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ece Takmaz , Mario Giulianelli , Sandro Pezzelle , Arabella Sinclair , Raquel Fernández

Visual storytelling involves generating a sequence of coherent frames from a textual storyline while maintaining consistency in characters and scenes. Existing autoregressive methods, which rely on previous frame-sentence pairs, struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sixiao Zheng , Yanwei Fu

We are enveloped by stories of visual interpretations in our everyday lives. The way we narrate a story often comprises of two stages, which are, forming a central mind map of entities and then weaving a story around them. A contributing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Ruo-Ping Dong , Khyathi Raghavi Chandu , Alan W Black

Recent generative models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating realistic and visually pleasing images grounded on textual prompts. Nevertheless, a significant challenge remains in applying these models for the more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xiaoqian Shen , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Previous work on visual storytelling mainly focused on exploring image sequence as evidence for storytelling and neglected textual evidence for guiding story generation. Motivated by human storytelling process which recalls stories for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Tianyi Li , Sujian Li

Visual narrative generation transforms textual narratives into sequences of images illustrating the content of the text. However, generating visual narratives that are faithful to the input text and self-consistent across generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Silin Gao , Sheryl Mathew , Li Mi , Sepideh Mamooler , Mengjie Zhao , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji , Syrielle Montariol , Antoine Bosselut

Existing methods in the Visual Storytelling field often suffer from the problem of generating general descriptions, while the image contains a lot of meaningful contents remaining unnoticed. The failure of informative story generation can…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jiacheng Li , Haizhou Shi , Siliang Tang , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang