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Story visualization requires generating sequential imagery that aligns semantically with evolving narratives while maintaining rigorous consistency in character identity and visual style. However, existing methodologies often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jianzhang Zhang , Yijing Tian , Jiwang Qu , Chuang Liu

Story visualization is an under-explored task that falls at the intersection of many important research directions in both computer vision and natural language processing. In this task, given a series of natural language captions which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Adyasha Maharana , Darryl Hannan , Mohit Bansal

We introduce Aether Weaver, a novel, integrated framework for multimodal narrative co-generation that overcomes limitations of sequential text-to-visual pipelines. Our system concurrently synthesizes textual narratives, dynamic scene graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Saeed Ghorbani

A good empathetic dialogue system should first track and understand a user's emotion and then reply with an appropriate emotion. However, current approaches to this task either focus on improving the understanding of users' emotion or on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yuhan Liu , Jun Gao , Jiachen Du , Lanjun Zhou , Ruifeng Xu

The rising demand for mental health care has fueled interest in AI-driven counseling systems. While large language models (LLMs) offer significant potential, current approaches face challenges, including limited understanding of clients'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhiyang Qi , Keiko Takamizo , Mariko Ukiyo , Michimasa Inaba

Story generation is a challenging task, which demands to maintain consistency of the plots and characters throughout the story. Previous works have shown that GPT2, a large-scale language model, has achieved good performance on story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Wei Wang , Piji Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

Despite the rapid progress in image generation, emotional image editing remains under-explored. The semantics, context, and structure of an image can evoke emotional responses, making emotional image editing techniques valuable for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Qing Lin , Jingfeng Zhang , Yew-Soon Ong , Mengmi Zhang

Image narrative generation is a task to create a story from an image with a subjective viewpoint. Given the importance of the subjective feelings of writers, readers, and characters in storytelling, an image narrative generation method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Kohei Uehara , Yusuke Mori , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Current storytelling systems focus more ongenerating stories with coherent plots regard-less of the narration style, which is impor-tant for controllable text generation. There-fore, we propose a new task, stylized story gen-eration, namely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Xiangzhe Kong , Jialiang Huang , Ziquan Tung , Jian Guan , Minlie Huang

In recent years, the field of talking faces generation has attracted considerable attention, with certain methods adept at generating virtual faces that convincingly imitate human expressions. However, existing methods face challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Bingyuan Zhang , Xulong Zhang , Ning Cheng , Jun Yu , Jing Xiao , Jianzong Wang

Story generation, which aims to generate a long and coherent story automatically based on the title or an input sentence, is an important research area in the field of natural language generation. There is relatively little work on story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Feifei Xu , Xinpeng Wang , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp , Yuyi Wang , Shanlin Zhou , Haizhou Du

Implementing fine-grained emotion control is crucial for emotion generation tasks because it enhances the expressive capability of the generative model, allowing it to accurately and comprehensively capture and express various nuanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guanwen Feng , Haoran Cheng , Yunan Li , Zhiyuan Ma , Chaoneng Li , Zhihao Qian , Qiguang Miao , Chi-Man Pun

We present Story2Board, a training-free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 David Dinkevich , Matan Levy , Omri Avrahami , Dvir Samuel , Dani Lischinski

Storytelling in real-world videos often unfolds through multiple shots -- discontinuous yet semantically connected clips that together convey a coherent narrative. However, existing multi-shot video generation (MSV) methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhaochong An , Menglin Jia , Haonan Qiu , Zijian Zhou , Xiaoke Huang , Zhiheng Liu , Weiming Ren , Kumara Kahatapitiya , Ding Liu , Sen He , Chenyang Zhang , Tao Xiang , Fanny Yang , Serge Belongie , Tian Xie

Storyboarding is an established method for designing user experiences. Generative AI can support this process by helping designers quickly create visual narratives. However, existing tools only focus on accurate text-to-image generation.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhaohui Liang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Kevin Ma , Zhao Liu , Xipei Ren , Kosa Goucher-Lambert , Can Liu

Recent text-to-image models have revolutionized image generation, but they still struggle with maintaining concept consistency across generated images. While existing works focus on character consistency, they often overlook the crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Quanjian Song , Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Fei Shen , Jiaze Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Cunjian Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Objective- The objective of this study is to introduce EmoWrite, a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) system aimed at addressing the limitations of existing BCI-based systems. Specifically, the objective includes improving typing speed,…

Several works have developed end-to-end pipelines for generating lip-synced talking faces with various real-world applications, such as teaching and language translation in videos. However, these prior works fail to create realistic-looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sahil Goyal , Shagun Uppal , Sarthak Bhagat , Yi Yu , Yifang Yin , Rajiv Ratn Shah

The emotional arc is a universal narrative structure underlying stories across cultures and media -- an idea central to structuralist narratology, often encapsulated in the phrase "all stories are one story." We present a framework for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yunge Wen , Chenliang Huang , Hangyu Zhou , Zhuo Zeng , Chun Ming Louis Po , Julian Togelius , Timothy Merino , Sam Earle

Story visualization aims to generate a sequence of images to narrate each sentence in a multi-sentence story with a global consistency across dynamic scenes and characters. Current works still struggle with output images' quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Bowen Li , Thomas Lukasiewicz