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State-of-the-art Text-to-Image models like Stable Diffusion and DALLE$\cdot$2 are revolutionizing how people generate visual content. At the same time, society has serious concerns about how adversaries can exploit such models to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yiting Qu , Xinyue Shen , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Savvas Zannettou , Yang Zhang

Malicious or manipulated prompts are known to exploit text-to-image models to generate unsafe images. Existing studies, however, focus on the passive exploitation of such harmful capabilities. In this paper, we investigate the proactive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yixin Wu , Ning Yu , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

Recent text-guided diffusion models provide powerful image generation capabilities. Currently, a massive effort is given to enable the modification of these images using text only as means to offer intuitive and versatile editing. To edit a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Kfir Aberman , Yael Pritch , Daniel Cohen-Or

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing. Many existing approaches rely on text prompts as editing guidance. However, these methods are constrained by the need for manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuanyuan Chang , Yinghua Yao , Tao Qin , Mengmeng Wang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Text guided diffusion models are used by millions of users, but can be easily exploited to produce harmful content. Concept unlearning methods aim at reducing the models' likelihood of generating harmful content. Traditionally, this has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mansi , Avinash Kori , Francesca Toni , Soteris Demetriou

The personalization techniques of diffusion models succeed in generating images with specific concepts. This ability also poses great threats to copyright protection and network security since malicious users can generate unauthorized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Liangqi Lei , Keke Gai , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Qi Wu

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models deliver remarkable visual fidelity but pose safety risks due to their capacity to reproduce undesirable content, such as copyrighted ones. Concept erasure has emerged as a mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hoigi Seo , Byung Hyun Lee , Jaehyun Cho , Sungjin Lim , Se Young Chun

Owing to the unrestricted nature of the content in the training data, large text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), are capable of generating images with potentially copyrighted or dangerous content based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zixuan Ni , Longhui Wei , Jiacheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang , Qi Tian

Can a text-to-image diffusion model be used as a training objective for adapting a GAN generator to another domain? In this paper, we show that the classifier-free guidance can be leveraged as a critic and enable generators to distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Kunpeng Song , Ligong Han , Bingchen Liu , Dimitris Metaxas , Ahmed Elgammal

Text-guided diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks by producing high-fidelity content from text descriptions. They have also enabled an editing paradigm where concepts can be replaced through text conditioning (e.g., a dog to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

Text-to-image generative models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL$\cdot$E raise many ethical concerns due to the generation of harmful images such as Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) ones. To address these ethical concerns, safety filters are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yuchen Yang , Bo Hui , Haolin Yuan , Neil Gong , Yinzhi Cao

Steering intermediate representations has emerged as a powerful strategy for controlling generative models, particularly in post-deployment alignment and safety settings. However, despite its empirical success, it currently lacks a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tatiana Gaintseva , Andrew Stepanov , Ziquan Liu , Martin Benning , Gregory Slabaugh , Jiankang Deng , Ismail Elezi

Score-based generative models (SBM), also known as diffusion models, are the de facto state of the art for image synthesis. Despite their unparalleled performance, SBMs have recently been in the spotlight for being tricked into creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Camilo Carvajal Reyes , Joaquín Fontbona , Felipe Tobar

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-quality and diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, uncontrolled reproduction of sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful imagery poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yiwei Xie , Ping Liu , Zheng Zhang

Video object removal aims to eliminate target objects from videos while plausibly completing missing regions and preserving spatio-temporal consistency. Although diffusion models have recently advanced this task, it remains challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dingming Liu , Wenjing Wang , Chen Li , Jing Lyu

Centred on content modification and style preservation, Scene Text Editing (STE) remains a challenging task despite considerable progress in text-to-image synthesis and text-driven image manipulation recently. GAN-based STE methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Weichao Zeng , Yan Shu , Zhenhang Li , Dongbao Yang , Yu Zhou

Diffusion models have dramatically advanced text-to-image generation in recent years, translating abstract concepts into high-fidelity images with remarkable ease. In this work, we examine whether they can also blend distinct concepts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lorenzo Olearo , Giorgio Longari , Alessandro Raganato , Rafael Peñaloza , Simone Melzi

Recently large-scale language-image models (e.g., text-guided diffusion models) have considerably improved the image generation capabilities to generate photorealistic images in various domains. Based on this success, current image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wenkai Dong , Song Xue , Xiaoyue Duan , Shumin Han

The expansion of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has raised growing concerns about their potential to generate undesirable or harmful content, ranging from fabricated depictions of public figures to sexually explicit images. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jonas Henry Grebe , Tobias Braun , Marcus Rohrbach , Anna Rohrbach

Concept erasure techniques for text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models report substantial suppression of sensitive content, yet current evaluation is limited to checking whether the target concept is absent from generated frames, treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiwei Xie , Zheng Zhang , Ping Liu