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Reading and repeatedly retelling a short story is a common and effective approach to learning the meanings and usages of target words. However, learners often struggle with comprehending, recalling, and retelling the story contexts of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Qiaoyi Chen , Siyu Liu , Kaihui Huang , Xingbo Wang , Xiaojuan Ma , Junkai Zhu , Zhenhui Peng

With the remarkable advancements in image generation and open-form text generation, the creation of interleaved image-text content has become an increasingly intriguing field. Multimodal story generation, characterized by producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shuai Yang , Yuying Ge , Yang Li , Yukang Chen , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Yingcong Chen

A storyboard is a sequence of images to illustrate a story containing multiple sentences, which has been a key process to create different story products. In this paper, we tackle a new multimedia task of automatic storyboard creation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shizhe Chen , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Qin Jin , Pingping Lin , Xiaoyu Qi , Chunting Wang , Jin Zhou

Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

Subject-driven image generation aims to synthesize novel scenes that faithfully preserve subject identity from reference images while adhering to textual guidance. However, existing methods struggle with a critical trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zebin Yao , Lei Ren , Huixing Jiang , Wei Chen , Xiaojie Wang , Ruifan Li , Fangxiang Feng

As a technically challenging topic, visual storytelling aims at generating an imaginary and coherent story with narrative multi-sentences from a group of relevant images. Existing methods often generate direct and rigid descriptions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Tengpeng Li , Hanli Wang , Bin He , Chang Wen Chen

Stories are diverse and highly personalized, resulting in a large possible output space for story generation. Existing end-to-end approaches produce monotonous stories because they are limited to the vocabulary and knowledge in a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Chao-Chun Hsu , Zi-Yuan Chen , Chi-Yang Hsu , Chih-Chia Li , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang , Lun-Wei Ku

Modern deep learning methods typically treat image sequences as large tensors of sequentially stacked frames. However, is this straightforward representation ideal given the current state-of-the-art (SoTA)? In this work, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Snehal Singh Tomar , Alexandros Graikos , Arjun Krishna , Dimitris Samaras , Klaus Mueller

Recent research in AI is focusing towards generating narrative stories about visual scenes. It has the potential to achieve more human-like understanding than just basic description generation of images- in-sequence. In this work, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Marko Smilevski , Ilija Lalkovski , Gjorgji Madjarov

Transductive zero-shot learning with vision-language models leverages image-image similarities within the dataset to achieve better classification accuracy compared to the inductive setting. However, there is little work that explores the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Oindrila Saha , Logan Lawrence , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji

Lifelong learning requires models that can continuously learn from sequential streams of data without suffering catastrophic forgetting due to shifts in data distributions. Deep learning models have thrived in the non-sequential learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Nithin Holla , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

We introduce a lifelong imitation learning framework that enables continual policy refinement across sequential tasks under realistic memory and data constraints. Our approach departs from conventional experience replay by operating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Fanqi Yu , Matteo Tiezzi , Tommaso Apicella , Cigdem Beyan , Vittorio Murino

We present "Narrative Weaver", a novel framework that addresses a fundamental challenge in generative AI: achieving multi-modal controllable, long-range, and consistent visual content generation. While existing models excel at generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhengjian Yao , Yongzhi Li , Xinyuan Gao , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang , Yanye Lu

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

Story Visualization (SV) is a challenging generative vision task, that requires both visual quality and consistency between different frames in generated image sequences. Previous approaches either employ some kind of memory mechanism to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Christos Papadimitriou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Characters are important in narratives. They move the plot forward, create emotional connections, and embody the story's themes. Visual storytelling methods focus more on the plot and events relating to it, without building the narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Danyang Liu , Mirella Lapata , Frank Keller

Visual Story-Telling is the process of forming a multi-sentence story from a set of images. Appropriately including visual variation and contextual information captured inside the input images is one of the most challenging aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Zainy M. Malakan , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

With the advancement of interactive video generation, diffusion models have increasingly demonstrated their potential as world models. However, existing approaches still struggle to simultaneously achieve memory-enabled long-term temporal…

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

Story Visualization is an advanced task of computed vision that targets sequential image synthesis, where the generated samples need to be realistic, faithful to their conditioning and sequentially consistent. Our work proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Nikolaos Tsakas , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Giorgos Stamou