Text-to-image (T2I) models are difficult to evaluate and often rely on question generation and answering (QG/A) methods to assess text-image faithfulness. However, current QG/A methods have issues with reliability, such as the quality of questions and consistency of answers. In response, researchers have introduced the Davidsonian Scene Graph (DSG), an automatic QG/A framework inspired by formal semantics. DSG generates atomic, contextually relevant questions in dependency graphs to ensure better semantic coverage and consistent answers. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of DSG on various model configurations.
The study focuses on the challenges faced in evaluating text-to-image models and highlights the effectiveness of QG/A for assessing the faithfulness of text-image pairings. The commonly used approaches for evaluation include text-image embedding similarity and image-captioning-based text similarity. The previous QG/A methods, like TIFA and VQ2A, are also discussed. DSG emphasizes the need for further research into semantic nuances, subjectivity, domain knowledge, and semantic categories beyond current VQA (Visual Question Answering) models’ capabilities.
T2I models, which generate images from textual descriptions, have gained attention. Traditional evaluation relied on similarity scores between prompts and pictures. Recent approaches propose a QG module to create validation questions and expected answers from the text, followed by a VQA module to answer these questions based on the generated image. The approach, known as the QGA framework, draws inspiration from QA-based validation methods used in machine learning, such as summarization quality assessment.
DSG is an automatic, graph-based QG/A evaluation framework inspired by formal semantics. DSG generates unique, contextually relevant questions in dependency graphs to ensure semantic coverage and prevent inconsistent answers. It is adaptable to various QG/A modules and model configurations, with extensive experimentation demonstrating its effectiveness.
DSG, as an evaluation framework for text-to-image generation models, addresses reliability challenges in QG/A. It generates contextually relevant questions in dependency graphs and has been experimentally validated across different model configurations. The approach provides DSG-1k, an open evaluation benchmark comprising 1,060 prompts spanning various semantic categories, along with the associated DSG questions, for further research and evaluation purposes.
To summarize, the DSG framework is an effective way to evaluate text-to-image models and address QG/A challenges. Extensive experimentation with various model configurations confirms the usefulness of DSG. It presents DSG-1k, an open benchmark with diverse prompts. The study highlights the importance of human evaluation as the current gold standard for reliability while acknowledging the need for further research on semantic nuances and limitations in certain categories.
In the future, research can address issues related to subjectivity and domain knowledge. These problems can cause inconsistencies between models and humans, as well as among different human assessors. The study also highlights the limitations of current VQA models in accurately representing text, emphasizing the need for improvements in this area of model performance.
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