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Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) present a compelling alternative to autoregressive models, offering flexible, any-order infilling without specialized prompting design. However, their practical utility is blocked by a critical limitation:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zirui Wu , Lin Zheng , Zhihui Xie , Jiacheng Ye , Jiahui Gao , Shansan Gong , Yansong Feng , Zhenguo Li , Wei Bi , Guorui Zhou , Lingpeng Kong

This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhongcong Xu , Jianfeng Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jia-Wei Liu , Chenxu Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Mike Zheng Shou

Story Visualization aims to generate a sequence of images that faithfully depicts a textual narrative that preserve character identity, spatial configuration, and stylistic coherence as the narratives unfold. Maintaining such cross-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aditya Arora , Akshita Gupta , Pau Rodriguez , Marcus Rohrbach

Story Visualization aims to generate images aligned with story prompts, reflecting the coherence of storybooks through visual consistency among characters and scenes.Whereas current approaches exclusively concentrate on characters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Sitong Su , Litao Guo , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen , Jingkuan Song

Customized generation using diffusion models has made impressive progress in image generation, but remains unsatisfactory in the challenging video generation task, as it requires the controllability of both subjects and motions. To that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yujie Wei , Shiwei Zhang , Zhiwu Qing , Hangjie Yuan , Zhiheng Liu , Yu Liu , Yingya Zhang , Jingren Zhou , Hongming Shan

Story visualization has gained increasing attention in artificial intelligence. However, existing methods still struggle with maintaining a balance between character identity preservation and text-semantics alignment, largely due to a lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jinlu Zhang , Jiji Tang , Rongsheng Zhang , Tangjie Lv , Xiaoshuai Sun

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at general visual reasoning tasks but exhibit sharp performance degradation when applied to novel domains with substantial distribution shifts from pretraining data. Existing domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Dominick Reilly , Manish Kumar Govind , Le Xue , Srijan Das

Subject-driven text-to-image diffusion models empower users to tailor the model to new concepts absent in the pre-training dataset using a few sample images. However, prevalent subject-driven models primarily rely on single-concept input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Junjie Shentu , Matthew Watson , Noura Al Moubayed

Story visualization aims to generate a sequence of images to narrate each sentence in a multi-sentence story, where the images should be realistic and keep global consistency across dynamic scenes and characters. Current works face the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bowen Li , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Generative image codecs aim to optimize perceptual quality, producing realistic and detailed reconstructions. However, they often overlook a key property of human vision: our tendency to focus on particular aspects of a visual scene (e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Yang Zhang , Stephan Mandt , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, enabling intuitive understanding and manipulation of objects in three-dimensional space. While foundation models demonstrate remarkable performance on some benchmarks, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Fan-Yun Sun , Weiyu Liu , Siyi Gu , Dylan Lim , Goutam Bhat , Federico Tombari , Manling Li , Nick Haber , Jiajun Wu

Visual data storytelling is gaining importance as a means of presenting data-driven information or analysis results, especially to the general public. This has resulted in design principles being proposed for data-driven storytelling, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Jian Zhao , Shenyu Xu , Senthil Chandrasegaran , Chris Bryan , Fan Du , Aditi Mishra , Xin Qian , Yiran Li , Kwan-Liu Ma

Story visualization aims to generate a series of realistic and coherent images based on a storyline. Current models adopt a frame-by-frame architecture by transforming the pre-trained text-to-image model into an auto-regressive manner.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao , Hao Tang , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Chain-of-Thought reasoning has driven large language models to extend from thinking with text to thinking with images and videos. However, different modalities still have clear limitations: static images struggle to represent temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Andong Chen , Wenxin Zhu , Qiuyu Ding , Yuchen Song , Muyun Yang , Tiejun Zhao

Diffusion models have exhibited impressive prowess in the text-to-image task. Recent methods add image-level structure controls, e.g., edge and depth maps, to manipulate the generation process together with text prompts to obtain desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yibo Zhao , Liang Peng , Yang Yang , Zekai Luo , Hengjia Li , Yao Chen , Zheng Yang , Xiaofei He , Wei Zhao , qinglin lu , Boxi Wu , Wei Liu

We propose Uni-Animator, a novel Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based framework for unified image and video sketch colorization. Existing sketch colorization methods struggle to unify image and video tasks, suffering from imprecise color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xinyuan Chen , Yao Xu , Shaowen Wang , Pengjie Song , Bowen Deng

This paper introduces innovative solutions to enhance spatial controllability in diffusion models reliant on text queries. We first introduce vision guidance as a foundational spatial cue within the perturbed distribution. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zipeng Qi , Guoxi Huang , Chenyang Liu , Fei Ye

Large text-to-image models achieved a remarkable leap in the evolution of AI, enabling high-quality and diverse synthesis of images from a given text prompt. However, these models lack the ability to mimic the appearance of subjects in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Nataniel Ruiz , Yuanzhen Li , Varun Jampani , Yael Pritch , Michael Rubinstein , Kfir Aberman

LEARN is a layout-aware diffusion framework designed to generate pedagogically aligned illustrations for STEM education. It leverages a curated BookCover dataset that provides narrative layouts and structured visual cues, enabling the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Maoquan Zhang , Bisser Raytchev , Xiujuan Sun