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Evaluating diffusion-based image-editing models is a crucial task in the field of Generative AI. Specifically, it is imperative to assess their capacity to execute diverse editing tasks while preserving the image content and realism. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Stefan Stefanache , Lluís Pastor Pérez , Julen Costa Watanabe , Ernesto Sanchez Tejedor , Thomas Hofmann , Enis Simsar

Recent advancements in GANs and diffusion models have enabled the creation of high-resolution, hyper-realistic images. However, these models may misrepresent certain social groups and present bias. Understanding bias in these models remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Cristian Muñoz , Sara Zannone , Umar Mohammed , Adriano Koshiyama

Over the past years, image generation and manipulation have achieved remarkable progress due to the rapid development of generative AI based on deep learning. Recent studies have devoted significant efforts to address the problem of face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yuhang Lu , Touradj Ebrahimi

Fairness is a crucial concern for generative models, which not only reflect but can also amplify societal and cultural biases. Existing fairness notions for generative models are largely adapted from classification and focus on balancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Alexandre Verine , Rafael Pinot , Florian Le Bronnec

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently gained attention with state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image synthesis. Abiding by the tradition in deep learning, DMs are trained and evaluated on the images with fixed sizes. However, users are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhiyu Jin , Xuli Shen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Image harmonization, which involves adjusting the foreground of a composite image to attain a unified visual consistency with the background, can be conceptualized as an image-to-image translation task. Diffusion models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhou , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Animating virtual avatars to make co-speech gestures facilitates various applications in human-machine interaction. The existing methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks (GANs), which typically suffer from notorious mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Lingting Zhu , Xian Liu , Xuanyu Liu , Rui Qian , Ziwei Liu , Lequan Yu

Several studies have raised awareness about social biases in image generative models, demonstrating their predisposition towards stereotypes and imbalances. This paper contributes to this growing body of research by introducing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yankun Wu , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

Text-to-image (T2I) models have advanced creative content generation, yet their reliance on large uncurated datasets often reproduces societal biases. We present FairT2I, a training-free and interactive framework grounded in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jinya Sakurai , Yuki Koyama , Issei Sato

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

Multi-modal foundation models are typically trained on millions of pairs of natural images and text captions, frequently obtained through web-crawling approaches. Although such models depict excellent generative capabilities, they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Pierre Chambon , Christian Bluethgen , Curtis P. Langlotz , Akshay Chaudhari

Achieving fairness in text-to-image generation demands mitigating social biases without compromising visual fidelity, a challenge critical to responsible AI. Current fairness evaluation procedures for text-to-image models rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Marco N. Bochernitsan , Rodrigo C. Barros , Lucas S. Kupssinskü

Diffusion models, a family of generative models based on deep learning, have become increasingly prominent in cutting-edge machine learning research. With a distinguished performance in generating samples that resemble the observed data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lequan Lin , Zhengkun Li , Ruikun Li , Xuliang Li , Junbin Gao

Recent advancements in diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models have enabled the generation of high-quality and photorealistic images from text. However, they often exhibit societal biases related to gender, race, and socioeconomic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jeonghoon Park , Juyoung Lee , Chaeyeon Chung , Jaeseong Lee , Jaegul Choo , Jindong Gu

Diffusion-based Generative AI gains significant attention for its superior performance over other generative techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks and Variational Autoencoders. While it has achieved notable advancements in fields…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Haowei Lou , Helen Paik , Pari Delir Haghighi , Wen Hu , Lina Yao

In this paper, we introduce FairSense-AI: a multimodal framework designed to detect and mitigate bias in both text and images. By leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), FairSense-AI uncovers subtle forms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Shaina Raza , Mukund Sayeeganesh Chettiar , Matin Yousefabadi , Tahniat Khan , Marcelo Lotif

Accurate and controllable image editing is a challenging task that has attracted significant attention recently. Notably, DragGAN is an interactive point-based image editing framework that achieves impressive editing results with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yujun Shi , Chuhui Xue , Jun Hao Liew , Jiachun Pan , Hanshu Yan , Wenqing Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Song Bai

Federated learning aims at training models collaboratively across participants while protecting privacy. However, one major challenge for this paradigm is the data heterogeneity issue, where biased data preferences across multiple clients,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Huan Wang , Haoran Li , Huaming Chen , Jun Yan , Jiahua Shi , Jun Shen

Accurately identifying oocytes that progress to the blastocyst stage is crucial in reproductive medicine, but the limited availability of annotated high-quality embryo images presents challenges for developing automated diagnostic tools. To…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-18 Alejandro Golfe , Natalia P. García-de-la-puente , Adrián Colomer , Valery Naranjo

Training ML models which are fair across different demographic groups is of critical importance due to the increased integration of ML in crucial decision-making scenarios such as healthcare and recruitment. Federated learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Shen Yan , Chaoyang He , Emilio Ferrara , Salman Avestimehr