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Text-image generation has advanced rapidly, but assessing whether outputs truly capture the objects, attributes, and relations described in prompts remains a central challenge. Evaluation in this space relies heavily on automated metrics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seyed Amir Kasaei , Ali Aghayari , Arash Marioriyad , Niki Sepasian , MohammadAmin Fazli , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Human feedback plays a critical role in learning and refining reward models for text-to-image generation, but the optimal form the feedback should take for learning an accurate reward function has not been conclusively established. This…

Recent advancements in image generation technology have enabled widespread access to AI-generated imagery, prominently used in advertising, entertainment, and progressively in every form of visual content. However, these technologies often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yannis Tevissen

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to impressive image generation capabilities, but aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. Reward-based fine-tuning using models trained on human feedback improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Dmitrii Sorokin , Maksim Nakhodnov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Generative AI has revolutionised visual content editing, empowering users to effortlessly modify images and videos. However, not all edits are equal. To perform realistic edits in domains such as natural image or medical imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Thomas Melistas , Nikos Spyrou , Nefeli Gkouti , Pedro Sanchez , Athanasios Vlontzos , Yannis Panagakis , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Deep generative models have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. However, current text-to-image models often generate images that are inadequately aligned with text prompts. We propose a fine-tuning method for aligning such…

Recent advances in video diffusion models have significantly enhanced text-to-video generation, particularly through alignment tuning using reward models trained on human preferences. While these methods improve visual quality, they can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zefan Cai , Haoyi Qiu , Haozhe Zhao , Ke Wan , Jiachen Li , Jiuxiang Gu , Wen Xiao , Nanyun Peng , Junjie Hu

When assessing whether an image is of high or low quality, it is indispensable to take personal preference into account. Existing aesthetic models lay emphasis on hand-crafted features or deep features commonly shared by high quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Pei Lv , Meng Wang , Yongbo Xu , Ze Peng , Junyi Sun , Shimei Su , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu

Recent advancements in the text-rendering capabilities of image generation models have made the end-to-end creation of graphic design content, such as posters, increasingly feasible. However, existing reward models fall short of accurately…

Product images strongly influence consumer decision-making in online marketplaces. Empowered by multimodal contrastive learning, generative AI can output images that closely align with text prompts. Yet existing generative AI models do not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xiaohang Feng , Yiling Xie

Aesthetic qualities command measurable premiums in traditional goods markets. However, it remains unclear whether users are willing to pay for such qualities in AI-generated text. This paper estimates the willingness to pay for aesthetic…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-08 Arbaaz Karim

We conduct an incentivized laboratory experiment to study people's perception of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) alignment in the context of economic decision-making. Using a panel of economic problems spanning the domains of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-03 Kevin He , Ran Shorrer , Mengjia Xia

Generative AI does not only replicate human creativity but also reproduces deep-seated cultural biases, making it crucial to critically examine how concepts like ugliness are understood and expressed by these tools. This study investigates…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Garyoung Kim , Huisung Kwon , Seoju Yun , Yu-Won Youn

This paper examines potential biases and inconsistencies in emotional evocation of images produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) models and their potential bias toward negative emotions. In particular, we assess this bias by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Maneet Mehta , Cody Buntain

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models (DM) have garnered widespread adoption due to their capability in generating high-fidelity outputs and accessibility to anyone able to put imagination into words. However, DMs are often predisposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhe Jin , Tat-Seng Chua

Evaluating generative models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when the goal is to reflect human preferences. In this paper, we use music generation as a case study to investigate the gap between automatic evaluation metrics and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang , Huy Phan , Wenwu Wang , Emmanouil Benetos

Humans judge perceptual similarity according to diverse visual attributes, including scene layout, subject location, and camera pose. Existing vision models understand a wide range of semantic abstractions but improperly weigh these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shobhita Sundaram , Stephanie Fu , Lukas Muttenthaler , Netanel Y. Tamir , Lucy Chai , Simon Kornblith , Trevor Darrell , Phillip Isola

Diffusion models have become prevalent in generative modeling due to their ability to sample from complex distributions. To improve the quality of generated samples and their compliance with user requirements, two commonly used methods are:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shervin Khalafi , Ignacio Hounie , Dongsheng Ding , Alejandro Ribeiro

Misalignment between model predictions and intended usage can be detrimental for the deployment of computer vision models. The issue is exacerbated when the task involves complex structured outputs, as it becomes harder to design procedures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 André Susano Pinto , Alexander Kolesnikov , Yuge Shi , Lucas Beyer , Xiaohua Zhai

Generative image models produce striking visuals yet often misrepresent culture. Prior work has examined cultural bias mainly in text-to-image (T2I) systems, leaving image-to-image (I2I) editors underexplored. We bridge this gap with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Huichan Seo , Sieun Choi , Minki Hong , Yi Zhou , Junseo Kim , Lukman Ismaila , Naome Etori , Mehul Agarwal , Zhixuan Liu , Jihie Kim , Jean Oh