Toward Verifiable and Reproducible Human Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation

Paper Code Bibtex


Abstract

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.


Video


Citation

@inproceedings{text2img_eval_2023,
title={Toward Verifiable and Reproducible Human Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation},
author={Otani, Mayu and Togashi, Riku and Sawai, Yu and Ishigami, Ryosuke and Nakashima, Yuta and Rahtu, Esa and Heikkilä, Janne and Satoh, Shin’ichi},
booktitle={The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
year={2023}
}