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Text-to-Image Diffusion Models such as Stable-Diffusion and Imagen have achieved unprecedented quality of photorealism with state-of-the-art FID scores on MS-COCO and other generation benchmarks. Given a caption, image generation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Samyadeep Basu , Nanxuan Zhao , Vlad Morariu , Soheil Feizi , Varun Manjunatha

Text-to-image diffusion models particularly Stable Diffusion, have revolutionized the field of computer vision. However, the synthesis quality often deteriorates when asked to generate images that faithfully represent complex prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chenyi Zhuang , Ying Hu , Pan Gao

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant progress in generating naturalistic images from textual inputs, and demonstrate the capacity to learn and represent complex visual-semantic relationships. While these diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Rushikesh Zawar , Shaurya Dewan , Prakanshul Saxena , Yingshan Chang , Andrew Luo , Yonatan Bisk

Transformer-based CLIP models are widely used for text-image probing and feature extraction, making it relevant to understand the internal mechanisms behind their predictions. While recent works show that Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Maximilian Dreyer , Lorenz Hufe , Jim Berend , Thomas Wiegand , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek

Large pre-trained models have had a significant impact on computer vision by enabling multi-modal learning, where the CLIP model has achieved impressive results in image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sitian Shen , Zilin Zhu , Linqian Fan , Harry Zhang , Xinxiao Wu

Instead of performing text-conditioned denoising in the image domain, latent diffusion models (LDMs) operate in latent space of a variational autoencoder (VAE), enabling more efficient processing at reduced computational costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jason Becker , Chris Wendler , Peter Baylies , Robert West , Christian Wressnegger

Multimodal AI models capable of associating images and text hold promise for numerous domains, ranging from automated image captioning to accessibility applications for blind and low-vision users. However, uncertainty about bias has in some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Robert Wolfe , Aayushi Dangol , Alexis Hiniker , Bill Howe

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities of generating high-quality images closely aligned with textual inputs. However, the effectiveness of text guidance heavily relies on the CLIP text encoder, which is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zexi Jia , Chuanwei Huang , Hongyan Fei , Yeshuang Zhu , Zhiqiang Yuan , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), which excels at abstracting open-world representations across domains and modalities, has become a foundation for a variety of vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent studies reveal that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Wenxuan Wang , Quan Sun , Fan Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Jing Liu , Xinlong Wang

The dream of instantly creating rich 360-degree panoramic worlds from text is rapidly becoming a reality, yet a crucial gap exists in our ability to reliably evaluate their semantic alignment. Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hai Wang , Xiaochen Yang , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

Text-to-image diffusion models are now capable of generating images that are often indistinguishable from real images. To generate such images, these models must understand the semantics of the objects they are asked to generate. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Eric Hedlin , Gopal Sharma , Shweta Mahajan , Hossam Isack , Abhishek Kar , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

Diffusion models have shown superior performance in image generation and manipulation, but the inherent stochasticity presents challenges in preserving and manipulating image content and identity. While previous approaches like DreamBooth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Inhwa Han , Serin Yang , Taesung Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

Image-text contrastive models like CLIP have wide applications in zero-shot classification, image-text retrieval, and transfer learning. However, they often struggle on compositional visio-linguistic tasks (e.g., attribute-binding or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Samyadeep Basu , Shell Xu Hu , Maziar Sanjabi , Daniela Massiceti , Soheil Feizi

CLIP embeddings have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of multimodal applications. However, these high-dimensional, dense vector representations are not easily interpretable, limiting our understanding of the rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Usha Bhalla , Alex Oesterling , Suraj Srinivas , Flavio P. Calmon , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels typically leverages Class Activation Maps (CAMs) to achieve pixel-level predictions. Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been introduced to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zhiwei Yang , Pengfei Song , Yucong Meng , Kexue Fu , Shuo Wang , Zhijian Song

Diffusion-based text-to-image generative models, e.g., Stable Diffusion, have revolutionized the field of content generation, enabling significant advancements in areas like image editing and video synthesis. Despite their formidable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yanyu Li , Xian Liu , Anil Kag , Ju Hu , Yerlan Idelbayev , Dhritiman Sagar , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Recent generative models produce near-photorealistic images, challenging the trustworthiness of photographs. Synthetic image detection (SID) has thus become an important area of research. Prior work has highlighted how synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Marco Willi , Melanie Mathys , Michael Graber

Diffusion-based generative models' impressive ability to create convincing images has garnered global attention. However, their complex internal structures and operations often pose challenges for non-experts to grasp. We introduce…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Seongmin Lee , Benjamin Hoover , Hendrik Strobelt , Zijie J. Wang , ShengYun Peng , Austin Wright , Kevin Li , Haekyu Park , Haoyang Yang , Polo Chau

Text-guided image generation enables the creation of visual content from textual descriptions. However, certain visual concepts cannot be effectively conveyed through language alone. This has sparked a renewed interest in utilizing the CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Elad Richardson , Yuval Alaluf , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Daniel Cohen-Or

Large vision-language contrastive models (VLCMs), such as CLIP, have become foundational, demonstrating remarkable success across a variety of downstream tasks. Despite their advantages, these models, akin to other foundational systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haocheng Dai , Sarang Joshi