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FreeStory: Training-Free Character Consistency for Free-Form Visual Storytelling
Sibo Dong, Ismail Shaheen, Sarah Adel Bargal
Visual storytelling aims to generate image sequences that are both aligned with narrative prompts and consistent in character appearance across images. Recent training-free methods…
ViSTA: Visual Storytelling using Multi-modal Adapters for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Sibo Dong, Ismail Shaheen, Maggie Shen +2
Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, yet generating coherent image sequences for visual storytelling remains challenging. A key challenge is effectively…
Gen-AFFECT: Generation of Avatar Fine-grained Facial Expressions with Consistent identiTy
Hao Yu, Rupayan Mallick, Margrit Betke +1
Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to…
A Manually Annotated Image-Caption Dataset for Detecting Children in the Wild
Klim Kireev, Ana-Maria Creţu, Raphael Meier +3
Platforms and the law regulate digital content depicting minors (defined as individuals under 18 years of age) differently from other types of content. Given the sheer amount of co…
GenEAva: Generating Cartoon Avatars with Fine-Grained Facial Expressions from Realistic Diffusion-based Faces
Hao Yu, Rupayan Mallick, Margrit Betke +1
Cartoon avatars have been widely used in various applications, including social media, online tutoring, and gaming. However, existing cartoon avatar datasets and generation methods…