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Currently, vision encoder models like Vision Transformers (ViTs) typically excel at image recognition tasks but cannot simultaneously support text recognition like human visual recognition. To address this limitation, we propose UNIT, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yi Zhu , Yanpeng Zhou , Chunwei Wang , Yang Cao , Jianhua Han , Lu Hou , Hang Xu

In this work, we study the problem of Text-to-Image In-Context Learning (T2I-ICL). While Unified Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years, they struggle with contextual reasoning in T2I-ICL scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jiaqi Liao , Zhengyuan Yang , Linjie Li , Dianqi Li , Kevin Lin , Yu Cheng , Lijuan Wang

Information retrieval is indispensable for today's Internet applications, yet traditional semantic matching techniques often fall short in capturing the fine-grained cross-modal interactions required for complex queries. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Lang Huang , Qiyu Wu , Zhongtao Miao , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Text-to-image (T2I) models have significantly advanced the development of artificial intelligence, enabling the generation of high-quality images in diverse contexts based on specific text prompts. However, existing T2I-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Salaheldin Mohamed , Dong Han , Yong Li

We present \textsc{Vx2Text}, a framework for text generation from multimodal inputs consisting of video plus text, speech, or audio. In order to leverage transformer networks, which have been shown to be effective at modeling language, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xudong Lin , Gedas Bertasius , Jue Wang , Shih-Fu Chang , Devi Parikh , Lorenzo Torresani

Subject-Driven Text-to-Image (T2I) Generation aims to preserve a subject's identity while editing its context based on a text prompt. A core challenge in this task is the "similarity-controllability paradox", where enhancing textual control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shuang Li , Chao Deng , Hang Chen , Liqun Liu , Zhenyu Hu , Te Cao , Mengge Xue , Yuan Chen , Peng Shu , Huan Yu , Jie Jiang

The goal of Text-to-Image Person Retrieval (TIPR) is to retrieve specific person images according to the given textual descriptions. A primary challenge in this task is bridging the substantial representational gap between visual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Delong Liu , Haiwen Li , Zhicheng Zhao , Yuan Dong

The capability to jointly process multi-modal information is becoming an essential task. However, the limited number of paired multi-modal data and the large computational requirements in multi-modal learning hinder the development. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Minsu Kim , Jee-weon Jung , Hyeongseop Rha , Soumi Maiti , Siddhant Arora , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Yong Man Ro

Text-to-image (T2I) models are well known for their ability to produce highly realistic images, while multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are renowned for their proficiency in understanding and integrating multiple modalities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jian Ma , Qirong Peng , Xu Guo , Chen Chen , Haonan Lu , Zhenyu Yang

Data-to-text (D2T) and text-to-data (T2D) are dual tasks that convert structured data, such as graphs or tables into fluent text, and vice versa. These tasks are usually handled separately and use corpora extracted from a single source.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Song Duong , Alberto Lumbreras , Mike Gartrell , Patrick Gallinari

Image degradation from blur, noise, compression, and poor illumination severely undermines multimodal understanding in real-world settings. Unified multimodal models that combine understanding and generation within a single architecture are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiangzhao Hao , Zefeng Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Linhao Yu , Yao Chen , Yiqian Zhang , Haiyun Guo , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have made remarkable advancements in generative modeling; however, they face a trade-off between inference speed and image quality, posing challenges for efficient deployment. Existing distilled T2I…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Senmao Li , Lei Wang , Kai Wang , Tao Liu , Jiehang Xie , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang

Text-to-image (T2I) generation aims at producing realistic images corresponding to text descriptions. Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has proven to be successful in this task. Typical T2I GANs are 2 phase methods that first pretrain an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yibin Liu , Jianyu Zhang , Li Zhang , Shijian Li , Gang Pan

Unified multimodal understanding and generation models recently have achieve significant improvement in image generation capability, yet a large gap remains in instruction following and detail preservation compared to systems that tightly…

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have achieved impressive results, yet existing models often struggle with simple or underspecified prompts, leading to suboptimal image-text alignment, aesthetics, and quality. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ruibo Chen , Jiacheng Pan , Heng Huang , Zhenheng Yang

Recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) models enables high-quality image generation with flexible textual control. To utilize the abundant visual priors in the off-the-shelf T2I models, a series of methods try to invert an image to proper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Zijie Wu , Chaohui Yu , Zhen Zhu , Fan Wang , Xiang Bai

We develop an approach for text-to-image generation that embraces additional retrieval images, driven by a combination of implicit visual guidance loss and generative objectives. Unlike most existing text-to-image generation methods which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Xin Yuan , Zhe Lin , Jason Kuen , Jianming Zhang , John Collomosse

Text-to-image generation has evolved beyond single monolithic models to complex multi-component pipelines. These combine fine-tuned generators, adapters, upscaling blocks and even editing steps, leading to significant improvements in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Uri Gadot , Rinon Gal , Yftah Ziser , Gal Chechik , Shie Mannor

Recently, large-scale text-to-image (T2I) models have shown impressive performance in generating high-fidelity images, but with limited controllability, e.g., precisely specifying the content in a specific region with a free-form text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Zhengyuan Yang , Jianfeng Wang , Zhe Gan , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Chenfei Wu , Nan Duan , Zicheng Liu , Ce Liu , Michael Zeng , Lijuan Wang

Text-to-image generative models excel in creating images from text but struggle with ensuring alignment and consistency between outputs and prompts. This paper introduces TextMatch, a novel framework that leverages multimodal optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yucong Luo , Mingyue Cheng , Jie Ouyang , Xiaoyu Tao , Qi Liu