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This research introduces the CO-AID dataset, which systematically catalogs defects in text-to-image models when handling complex compositional prompts involving multiple entities and attributes. By leveraging human assessments to identify these specific failure modes, the study demonstrates that training deep learning models on this data can effectively predict and optimize image generation quality. The work directly addresses critical limitations in current generative AI capabilities regarding intricate scene composition.
When Composition Doesn't Add Up: Humans Identifying Defects in AI-Generated Images
arXiv:2608.25933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: *Chulin Zhao and Ruoqi Hu contributed equally to this work. State-of-the-art text-to-image (T2I) models exhibit pronounced and systematic defects when prompts involve intricate compositional factors such as multiple entities and multiple attributes. In this paper, we investigate how humans identify such defects. Specifically, we manually select 651 reference images from the four categories of people, hand, object, and scene that exhibit complex compositional characteristics, from which prompts emphasizing compositional factors are derived by manually editing ChatGPT-generated prompts. We then feed the prompts into three selected T2I models to generate AI images and conduct a comprehensive subjective study to identify their defects. For each image, 29 participants provide multi-label assessments specifying defect types and locations. The study yields the compositional AI-generated image defect (CO-AID) dataset, including reference images, prompts, AI-generated images, and information on defect locations and types. Experimental results show that training a deep model on CO-AID can both predict defects in AI-generated images and optimize AI image generation, demonstrating its usability and effectiveness. The database and supplementary materials are available at: https://github.com/Future-IQA/CO-AID .
Abstract:*Chulin Zhao and Ruoqi Hu contributed equally to this work. State-of-the-art text-to-image (T2I) models exhibit pronounced and systematic defects when prompts involve intricate compositional factors such as multiple entities and multiple attributes. In this paper, we investigate how humans identify such defects. Specifically, we manually select 651 reference images from the four categories of people, hand, object, and scene that exhibit complex compositional characteristics, from which prompts emphasizing compositional factors are derived by manually editing ChatGPT-generated prompts. We then feed the prompts into three selected T2I models to generate AI images and conduct a comprehensive subjective study to identify their defects. For each image, 29 participants provide multi-label assessments specifying defect types and locations. The study yields the compositional AI-generated image defect (CO-AID) dataset, including reference images, prompts, AI-generated images, and information on defect locations and types. Experimental results show that training a deep model on CO-AID can both predict defects in AI-generated images and optimize AI image generation, demonstrating its usability and effectiveness. The database and supplementary materials are available at: this https URL .
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2608.25933 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2608.25933v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
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