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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

Translating information between text and image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects natural language processing and computer vision. In the past few years, performance in image caption generation has seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Hao Dong , Jingqing Zhang , Douglas McIlwraith , Yike Guo

Generative retrieval represents a novel approach to information retrieval. It uses an encoder-decoder architecture to directly produce relevant document identifiers (docids) for queries. While this method offers benefits, current approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yubao Tang , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Wei Chen , Xueqi Cheng

Diffusion models excel in many generative modeling tasks, notably in creating images from text prompts, a task referred to as text-to-image (T2I) generation. Despite the ability to generate high-quality images, these models often replicate…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Haonan Wang , Kenji Kawaguchi

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models are popular for introducing image manipulation methods, such as editing, image fusion, inpainting, etc. At the same time, image-to-video (I2V) and text-to-video (T2V) models are also built on top of T2I…

Designing document identifiers (docids) that carry rich semantic information while maintaining tractable search spaces is a important challenge in generative retrieval (GR). Popular codebook methods address this by building a hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yingchen Zhang , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Wenjun Peng , Sen Li , Fuyu Lv , Xueqi Cheng

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion and flow-matching models can produce highly realistic images from natural language prompts. In practical scenarios, T2I systems are often run in a ``generate--then--select'' mode: many seeds are sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Huanlei Guo , Hongxin Wei , Bingyi Jing

Text-to-image generation has recently emerged as a viable alternative to text-to-image retrieval, driven by the visually impressive results of generative diffusion models. Although query performance prediction is an active research topic in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Eduard Poesina , Adriana Valentina Costache , Adrian-Gabriel Chifu , Josiane Mothe , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Reasoning is a fundamental capability often required in real-world text-to-image (T2I) generation, e.g., generating ``a bitten apple that has been left in the air for more than a week`` necessitates understanding temporal decay and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Kaijie Chen , Zihao Lin , Zhiyang Xu , Ying Shen , Yuguang Yao , Joy Rimchala , Jiaxin Zhang , Lifu Huang

Popular text-to-image (T2I) systems are trained on web-scraped data, which is heavily Amero and Euro-centric, underrepresenting the cultures of the Global South. To analyze these biases, we introduce CuRe, a novel and scalable benchmarking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Aniket Rege , Zinnia Nie , Mahesh Ramesh , Unmesh Raskar , Zhuoran Yu , Aditya Kusupati , Yong Jae Lee , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak

Text-to-image (T2I) generation has seen significant progress with diffusion models, enabling generation of photo-realistic images from text prompts. Despite this progress, existing methods still face challenges in following complex text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ashish Goswami , Satyam Kumar Modi , Santhosh Rishi Deshineni , Harman Singh , Prathosh A. P , Parag Singla

We introduce ``Idea to Image,'' a system that enables multimodal iterative self-refinement with GPT-4V(ision) for automatic image design and generation. Humans can quickly identify the characteristics of different text-to-image (T2I) models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhengyuan Yang , Jianfeng Wang , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Chung-Ching Lin , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

The popularization of Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models enables the generation of high-quality images from text descriptions. However, generating diverse customized images with reference visual attributes remains challenging. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Brian Nlong Zhao , Yuhang Xiao , Jiashu Xu , Xinyang Jiang , Yifan Yang , Dongsheng Li , Laurent Itti , Vibhav Vineet , Yunhao Ge

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities in generating realistic visuals from natural-language prompts, yet they often struggle with accurately binding attributes to corresponding objects, especially in prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Do Huu Dat , Nam Hyeonu , Po-Yuan Mao , Tae-Hyun Oh

With the evolution of Text-to-Image (T2I) models, the quality defects of AI-Generated Images (AIGIs) pose a significant barrier to their widespread adoption. In terms of both perception and alignment, existing models cannot always guarantee…

Generative modeling is widely regarded as one of the most essential problems in today's AI community, with text-to-image generation having gained unprecedented real-world impacts. Among various approaches, diffusion models have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xuyang Guo , Jiayan Huo , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang , Zhen Zhuang

Text-to-image retrieval is a fundamental task in multimedia processing, aiming to retrieve semantically relevant cross-modal content. Traditional studies have typically approached this task as a discriminative problem, matching the text and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yongqi Li , Hongru Cai , Wenjie Wang , Leigang Qu , Yinwei Wei , Wenjie Li , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Generative Retrieval (GR) is an emerging paradigm in information retrieval that leverages generative models to directly map queries to relevant document identifiers (DocIDs) without the need for traditional query processing or document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tzu-Lin Kuo , Tzu-Wei Chiu , Tzung-Sheng Lin , Sheng-Yang Wu , Chao-Wei Huang , Yun-Nung Chen

Regional defaults describe the emerging phenomenon that text-to-image (T2I) foundation models used in generative AI are prone to over-proportionally depicting certain geographic regions to the exclusion of others. In this work, we introduce…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zilong Liu , Krzysztof Janowicz , Kitty Currier , Meilin Shi

One challenge in text-to-image (T2I) generation is the inadvertent reflection of culture gaps present in the training data, which signifies the disparity in generated image quality when the cultural elements of the input text are rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Bingshuai Liu , Longyue Wang , Chenyang Lyu , Yong Zhang , Jinsong Su , Shuming Shi , Zhaopeng Tu