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In-context image generation models such as FLUX.2 take a text prompt and an optional reference image as visual conditioning for the output. Internally, all three inputs -- text, reference image, and the noise tokens -- are concatenated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chris Ge , Rohit Gandikota , Antonio Torralba , Tamar Rott Shaham

In this work, we reveal the limitations of visual tokenizers and VAEs in preserving fine-grained features, and propose a benchmark to evaluate reconstruction performance for two challenging visual contents: text and face. Visual tokenizers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Junfeng Wu , Dongliang Luo , Weizhi Zhao , Zhihao Xie , Yuanhao Wang , Junyi Li , Xudong Xie , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

Tokenization plays a critical role in language modeling, yet existing approaches such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) or WordPiece operate purely on frequency statistics, ignoring the underlying semantic structure of text. This leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

In recent years, general visual foundation models (VFMs) have witnessed increasing adoption, particularly as image encoders for popular multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). However, without semantically fine-grained supervision, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Tongkun Guan , Zining Wang , Pei Fu , Zhengtao Guo , Wei Shen , Kai Zhou , Tiezhu Yue , Chen Duan , Hao Sun , Qianyi Jiang , Junfeng Luo , Xiaokang Yang

In generative modeling, tokenization simplifies complex data into compact, structured representations, creating a more efficient, learnable space. For high-dimensional visual data, it reduces redundancy and emphasizes key features for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Long Zhao , Sanghyun Woo , Ziyu Wan , Yandong Li , Han Zhang , Boqing Gong , Hartwig Adam , Xuhui Jia , Ting Liu

This paper addresses the performance bottlenecks of existing text-driven image generation methods in terms of semantic alignment accuracy and structural consistency. A high-fidelity image generation method is proposed by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Danyi Gao

Computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic/instance segmentation rely on the painstaking annotation of large training datasets. In this paper, we propose LocTex that takes advantage of the low-cost localized textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhijian Liu , Simon Stent , Jie Li , John Gideon , Song Han

Existing vision tokenization isolates the optimization of vision tokenizers from downstream training, implicitly assuming the visual tokens can generalize well across various tasks, e.g., image generation and visual question answering. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Wenxuan Wang , Fan Zhang , Yufeng Cui , Haiwen Diao , Zhuoyan Luo , Huchuan Lu , Jing Liu , Xinlong Wang

Current text-to-image models struggle to provide precise camera control using natural language alone. In this work, we present a framework for precise camera control with global scene understanding in text-to-image generation by learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xinxuan Lu , Charless Fowlkes , Alexander C. Berg

Image-text retrieval, as a fundamental and important branch of information retrieval, has attracted extensive research attentions. The main challenge of this task is cross-modal semantic understanding and matching. Some recent works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Weijing Chen , Linli Yao , Qin Jin

Recently it has shown that the policy-gradient methods for reinforcement learning have been utilized to train deep end-to-end systems on natural language processing tasks. What's more, with the complexity of understanding image content and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Haichao Shi , Peng Li , Bo Wang , Zhenyu Wang

Recent advances in personalized image generation allow a pre-trained text-to-image model to learn a new concept from a set of images. However, existing personalization approaches usually require heavy test-time finetuning for each concept,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Jing Shi , Wei Xiong , Zhe Lin , Hyun Joon Jung

Recent text-to-image generation models have demonstrated impressive capability of generating text-aligned images with high fidelity. However, generating images of novel concept provided by the user input image is still a challenging task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yufan Zhou , Ruiyi Zhang , Tong Sun , Jinhui Xu

Existing GUI agent models relying on coordinate-based one-step visual grounding struggle with generalizing to varying input resolutions and aspect ratios. Alternatives introduce coordinate-free strategies yet suffer from learning under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiaoce Wang , Guibin Zhang , Junzhe Li , Jinzhe Tu , Chun Li , Ming Li

Current image-to-image translation methods formulate the task with conditional generation models, leading to learning only the recolorization or regional changes as being constrained by the rich structural information provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yu-Jie Chen , Shin-I Cheng , Wei-Chen Chiu , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee

Recently, automatic image caption generation has been an important focus of the work on multimodal translation task. Existing approaches can be roughly categorized into two classes, i.e., top-down and bottom-up, the former transfers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Wei Wei , Ling Cheng , Xianling Mao , Guangyou Zhou , Feida Zhu

Current image captioning works usually focus on generating descriptions in an autoregressive manner. However, there are limited works that focus on generating descriptions non-autoregressively, which brings more decoding diversity. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yufeng He , Zefan Cai , Xu Gan , Baobao Chang

Text-to-image synthesis (T2I) aims to generate photo-realistic images which are semantically consistent with the text descriptions. Existing methods are usually built upon conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) and initialize an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Kai Hu , Wentong Liao , Michael Ying Yang , Bodo Rosenhahn

This paper introduces a novel explainable image quality evaluation approach called X-IQE, which leverages visual large language models (LLMs) to evaluate text-to-image generation methods by generating textual explanations. X-IQE utilizes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yixiong Chen , Li Liu , Chris Ding

As a challenging task, text-to-image generation aims to generate photo-realistic and semantically consistent images according to the given text descriptions. Existing methods mainly extract the text information from only one sentence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xintian Wu , Hanbin Zhao , Liangli Zheng , Shouhong Ding , Xi Li