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Recent work has shown that inference-time reasoning and reflection can improve text-to-image generation without retraining. However, existing approaches often rely on implicit, holistic critiques or unconstrained prompt rewrites, making…

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Text-driven video editing utilizing generative diffusion models has garnered significant attention due to their potential applications. However, existing approaches are constrained by the limited word embeddings provided in pre-training,…

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While most research on controllable text generation has focused on steering base Language Models, the emerging instruction-tuning and prompting paradigm offers an alternate approach to controllability. We compile and release ConGenBench, a…

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Can continuous diffusion models bring the same performance breakthrough on natural language they did for image generation? To circumvent the discrete nature of text data, we can simply project tokens in a continuous space of embeddings, as…

Recent advances in personalized image generation allow a pre-trained text-to-image model to learn a new concept from a set of images. However, existing personalization approaches usually require heavy test-time finetuning for each concept,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Jing Shi , Wei Xiong , Zhe Lin , Hyun Joon Jung

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have gained increased popularity in the public domain. While boasting impressive user-guided generative abilities, their black-box nature exposes users to intentionally- and intrinsically-biased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Text-conditioned image editing has emerged as a powerful tool for editing images. However, in many situations, language can be ambiguous and ineffective in describing specific image edits. When faced with such challenges, visual prompts can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Thao Nguyen , Yuheng Li , Utkarsh Ojha , Yong Jae Lee

Text-driven image and video editing can be naturally cast as inpainting problems, where masked regions are reconstructed to remain consistent with both the observed content and the editing prompt. Recent advances in test-time guidance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ahmed Ghorbel , Badr Moufad , Navid Bagheri Shouraki , Alain Oliviero Durmus , Thomas Hirtz , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson , Yazid Janati

Recent deep generative models are able to provide photo-realistic images as well as visual or textual content embeddings useful to address various tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. Their usefulness is nevertheless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Recent work has shown that a model's input word embeddings can serve as effective control variables for steering its behavior toward outputs that satisfy desired properties. However, this has only been demonstrated for pretrained…

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Consistent editing of real images is a challenging task, as it requires performing non-rigid edits (e.g., changing postures) to the main objects in the input image without changing their identity or attributes. To guarantee consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xiaoyue Duan , Shuhao Cui , Guoliang Kang , Baochang Zhang , Zhengcong Fei , Mingyuan Fan , Junshi Huang

Text-guided diffusion models have advanced image editing by enabling intuitive control through language. However, despite their strong capabilities, we surprisingly find that SOTA methods struggle with simple, everyday transformations such…

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Evaluating text-to-image generative models remains a challenge, despite the remarkable progress being made in their overall performances. While existing metrics like CLIPScore work for coarse evaluations, they lack the sensitivity to…

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Text rendering has recently emerged as one of the most challenging frontiers in visual generation, drawing significant attention from large-scale diffusion and multimodal models. However, text editing within images remains largely…

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Drag-based image editing has recently gained popularity for its interactivity and precision. However, despite the ability of text-to-image models to generate samples within a second, drag editing still lags behind due to the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Joonghyuk Shin , Daehyeon Choi , Jaesik Park

Image and shape editing are ubiquitous among digital artworks. Graphics algorithms facilitate artists and designers to achieve desired editing intents without going through manually tedious retouching. In the recent advance of machine…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Cheng-Kang Ted Chao , Yotam Gingold

Adaptive and flexible image editing is a desirable function of modern generative models. In this work, we present a generative model with auto-encoder architecture for per-region style manipulation. We apply a code consistency loss to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ansheng You , Chenglin Zhou , Qixuan Zhang , Lan Xu

In this paper, we investigate the semantic collapsing problem in generative personalization, an under-explored topic where the learned visual concept ($V$) gradually shifts from its original textual meaning and comes to dominate other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Trung Le , Junae Kim , Tamas Abraham , Rollin Omari , Amar Kaur , Dinh Phung

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the photorealistic generation of images from text prompts. Despite the great progress, existing models still struggle to generate compositional multi-concept images naturally,…

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