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The transformative potential of text-to-image (T2I) models hinges on their ability to synthesize culturally diverse, photorealistic images from textual prompts. However, these models often perpetuate cultural biases embedded within their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Muna Numan Said , Aarib Zaidi , Rabia Usman , Sonia Okon , Praneeth Medepalli , Kevin Zhu , Vasu Sharma , Sean O'Brien

Facial video editing has become increasingly important for content creators, enabling the manipulation of facial expressions and attributes. However, existing models encounter challenges such as poor editing quality, high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tharun Anand , Aryan Garg , Kaushik Mitra

Large vision-language model (LVLM) based text-to-image (T2I) systems have become the dominant paradigm in image generation, yet whether they amplify social biases remains insufficiently understood. In this paper, we show that LVLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 NaHyeon Park , Namin An , Kunhee Kim , Soyeon Yoon , Jiahao Huo , Hyunjung Shim

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown significant success in personalized text-to-image generation, which aims to generate novel images with human identities indicated by the reference images. Despite promising identity fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yuxiang Wei , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Hongzhi Zhang , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models have been widely adopted across various industries, yet are criticized for frequently exhibiting societal stereotypes. While a growing body of research has emerged to evaluate and mitigate these biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Megan Smith , Venkatesh Thirugnana Sambandham , Florian Richter , Laura Crompton , Matthias Uhl , Torsten Schön

Text-to-Image (TTI) models are powerful creative tools but risk amplifying harmful social biases. We frame representational societal bias assessment as an image curation and evaluation task and introduce a pilot benchmark of occupational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shaina Raza , Maximus Powers , Partha Pratim Saha , Mahveen Raza , Rizwan Qureshi

During pre-training, the Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models encode factual knowledge into their parameters. These parameterized facts enable realistic image generation, but they may become obsolete over time, thereby misrepresenting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Hengrui Gu , Kaixiong Zhou , Yili Wang , Ruobing Wang , Xin Wang

Warning: This paper contains several contents that may be toxic, harmful, or offensive. In the last few years, text-to-image generative models have gained remarkable success in generating images with unprecedented quality accompanied by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jialu Wang , Xinyue Gabby Liu , Zonglin Di , Yang Liu , Xin Eric Wang

It has been shown that many generative models inherit and amplify societal biases. To date, there is no uniform/systematic agreed standard to control/adjust for these biases. This study examines the presence and manipulation of societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Philip Wootaek Shin , Jihyun Janice Ahn , Wenpeng Yin , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

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

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-quality and diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, uncontrolled reproduction of sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful imagery poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yiwei Xie , Ping Liu , Zheng Zhang

Despite advancements in text-to-image generation (T2I), prior methods often face text-image misalignment problems such as relation confusion in generated images. Existing solutions involve cross-attention manipulation for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Leigang Qu , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Hanwang Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Text-to-image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality, flexibility, and text alignment, and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. Through improvements in multilingual…

Text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have achieved rapid progress, yet their demographic biases, particularly gender bias, remain largely unexplored. We present FairT2V, a training-free debiasing framework for text-to-video generation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Haonan Zhong , Wei Song , Tingxu Han , Maurice Pagnucco , Jingling Xue , Yang Song

Driven by the upsurge progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation models, text-to-video (T2V) generation has experienced a significant advance as well. Accordingly, tasks such as modifying the object or changing the style in a video have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Yeji Song , Wonsik Shin , Junsoo Lee , Jeesoo Kim , Nojun Kwak

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models can create vivid, realistic images from textual descriptions. As these models proliferate, they expose new concerns about their ability to represent diverse demographic groups, propagate stereotypes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sangwon Jung , Alex Oesterling , Claudio Mayrink Verdun , Sajani Vithana , Taesup Moon , Flavio P. Calmon

The increasing ubiquity of text-to-image (T2I) models as tools for visual content generation raises concerns about their ability to accurately represent diverse cultural contexts -- where missed cues can stereotype communities and undermine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shravan Nayak , Mehar Bhatia , Xiaofeng Zhang , Verena Rieser , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Yash Goyal , Karolina Stańczak , Aishwarya Agrawal

Demographic biases in source datasets have been shown as one of the causes of unfairness and discrimination in the predictions of Machine Learning models. One of the most prominent types of demographic bias are statistical imbalances in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

Text-to-image (T2I) models are increasingly popular, producing a large share of AI-generated images online. To compare model quality, voting-based leaderboards have become the standard, relying on anonymized model outputs for fairness. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ali Naseh , Yuefeng Peng , Anshuman Suri , Harsh Chaudhari , Alina Oprea , Amir Houmansadr

Recently, we have seen a surge of personalization methods for text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to learn a concept using a few images. Existing approaches, when used for face personalization, suffer to achieve convincing inversion with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Rishubh Parihar , Sachidanand VS , Sabariswaran Mani , Tejan Karmali , R. Venkatesh Babu