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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-image models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), undergo iterative updates to improve image quality and address concerns such as safety. Improvements in image quality are straightforward to assess. However, how model updates resolve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yixin Wu , Yun Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Recently, DALL-E, a multimodal transformer language model, and its variants, including diffusion models, have shown high-quality text-to-image generation capabilities. However, despite the realistic image generation results, there has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Jaemin Cho , Abhay Zala , Mohit Bansal

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models achieve impressive visual fidelity but inherit and amplify demographic imbalances and cultural biases embedded in training data. We introduce T2I-BiasBench, a unified evaluation framework of thirteen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Nihal Jaiswal , Siddhartha Arjaria , Gyanendra Chaubey , Ankush Kumar , Aditya Singh , Anchal Chaurasiya

Though research into text-to-image generators (T2Is) such as Stable Diffusion has demonstrated their amplification of societal biases and potentials to cause harm, such research has primarily relied on computational methods instead of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sourojit Ghosh , Nina Lutz , Aylin Caliskan

Text-to-image (TTI) diffusion models have achieved remarkable visual quality, yet they have been repeatedly shown to exhibit social biases across sensitive attributes such as gender, race and age. To mitigate these biases, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Manos Plitsis , Giorgos Bouritsas , Vassilis Katsouros , Yannis Panagakis

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have transformed visual content creation, producing highly realistic images from natural language prompts. However, concerns persist around their potential to replicate and magnify existing societal biases. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Sedat Porikli , Vedat Porikli

With the rapid development of diffusion models, text-to-image(T2I) models have made significant progress, showcasing impressive abilities in prompt following and image generation. Recently launched models such as FLUX.1 and Ideogram2.0,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiayi Lei , Renrui Zhang , Xiangfei Hu , Weifeng Lin , Zhen Li , Wenjian Sun , Ruoyi Du , Le Zhuo , Zhongyu Li , Xinyue Li , Shitian Zhao , Ziyu Guo , Yiting Lu , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Evaluating the quality of automatically generated image descriptions is a complex task that requires metrics capturing various dimensions, such as grammaticality, coverage, accuracy, and truthfulness. Although human evaluation provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jia-Hong Huang , Hongyi Zhu , Yixian Shen , Stevan Rudinac , Evangelos Kanoulas

Due to the high potential for abuse of GenAI systems, the task of detecting synthetic images has recently become of great interest to the research community. Unfortunately, existing image-space detectors quickly become obsolete as new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 George Cazenavette , Avneesh Sud , Thomas Leung , Ben Usman

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have recently gained significant attention due to their ability to generate high-quality images and are consequently used in a wide range of applications. However, there are concerns about the gender bias of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yunbo Lyu , Zhou Yang , Yuqing Niu , Jing Jiang , David Lo

Generative models are nowadays widely used to generate graphical content used for multiple purposes, e.g. web, art, advertisement. However, it has been shown that the images generated by these models could reinforce societal biases already…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Tosin Fadahunsi , Giordano d'Aloisio , Antinisca Di Marco , Federica Sarro

This survey reviews the progress of diffusion models in generating images from text, ~\textit{i.e.} text-to-image diffusion models. As a self-contained work, this survey starts with a brief introduction of how diffusion models work for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Chenshuang Zhang , Chaoning Zhang , Mengchun Zhang , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim

The recent advancement of large and powerful models with Text-to-Image (T2I) generation abilities -- such as OpenAI's DALLE-3 and Google's Gemini -- enables users to generate high-quality images from textual prompts. However, it has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yixin Wan , Arjun Subramonian , Anaelia Ovalle , Zongyu Lin , Ashima Suvarna , Christina Chance , Hritik Bansal , Rebecca Pattichis , Kai-Wei Chang

The surge in the popularity of text-to-image generators (T2Is) has been matched by extensive research into ensuring fairness and equitable outcomes, with a focus on how they impact society. However, such work has typically focused on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Sourojit Ghosh

Latent diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images from text. Yet, concerns appear about the lack of diversity in the generated imagery. To tackle this, we introduce Diverse Diffusion, a method for boosting image diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Modern text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models can generate images with remarkable realism and creativity. These advancements have sparked research in fake image detection and attribution, yet prior studies have not fully explored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Katherine Xu , Lingzhi Zhang , Jianbo Shi

Diffusion-based models, such as the Stable Diffusion model, have revolutionized text-to-image synthesis with their ability to produce high-quality, high-resolution images. These advancements have prompted significant progress in image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ali Naseh , Jaechul Roh , Amir Houmansadr

Diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models enable high-quality image generation but also pose significant risks of misuse, particularly in producing not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content. While prior detection methods have focused on filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Fan Yang , Yihao Huang , Jiayi Zhu , Ling Shi , Geguang Pu , Jin Song Dong , Kailong Wang

It has been shown that many generative models inherit and amplify societal biases. To date, there is no uniform/systematic agreed standard to control/adjust for these biases. This study examines the presence and manipulation of societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Philip Wootaek Shin , Jihyun Janice Ahn , Wenpeng Yin , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan