Human evaluation is critical for validating the performance of text-to-image generative models, as this
highly cognitive process requires deep comprehension of text and images. However, our survey of 37
recent
papers reveals that many works rely solely on automatic measures (e.g., FID) or perform poorly described
human evaluations that are not reliable or repeatable. This paper proposes a standardized and
well-defined
human evaluation protocol to facilitate verifiable and reproducible human evaluation in future works. In
our
pilot data collection, we experimentally show that the current automatic measures are incompatible with
human perception in evaluating the performance of the text-to-image generation results. Furthermore, we
provide insights for designing human evaluation experiments reliably and conclusively. Finally, we make
several resources publicly available to the community to facilitate easy and fast implementations.