Visual Text Classification for Efficient Image Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional approaches for creating images from text are limited in generating images from sentences or paragraphs and often require both text and image inputs, leading to inefficient use of computing resources and the generation of non-human understandable images.

Innovation Solution

A text visualization system that uses a multimodal model trained with a modified objective function to distinguish between visual and non-visual text, allowing it to generate images only from identified visual text, reducing resource waste and improving image understandability by reusing text embeddings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional approaches generate images from any text input, then image generation coverage is maximized, but computing resources are wasted on non-visual text and image understandability decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage generation coverageVSAvoidcomputing resource usage
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments text into visual and non-visual categories using a trained classification model. By dividing the text processing task into distinct segments (visual text requiring image generation vs. non-visual text requiring no image generation), the system avoids wasting computing resources on text that cannot benefit from visual representation while maintaining comprehensive image generation coverage for suitable text.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary classification of text as visual or non-visual before initiating image generation. This preliminary action using the trained model allows the system to identify which text inputs are suitable for image generation, preventing wasted computational resources on non-visual text while ensuring all visual text is processed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If conventional approaches generate images from all text, then completeness is improved, but image quality and human understandability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage generation completenessVSAvoidimage quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments text inputs into visual and non-visual categories using classification based on learned patterns from training data. This segmentation ensures that only text with visual potential undergoes image generation, maintaining high image quality and human understandability while preserving completeness for all suitable text inputs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The trained classification model acts as an intermediary between raw text input and image generation. This intermediary evaluates text characteristics and determines suitability for visual representation, ensuring that only appropriate text proceeds to image generation, thereby maintaining both completeness and high quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If text classification without image input is implemented, then model efficiency is improved, but classification accuracy may worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel processing efficiencyVSAvoidtext classification accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The model performs preliminary training using paired text-image data to learn visual text characteristics before deployment. This preliminary action during training enables the model to achieve accurate classification of visual versus non-visual text during inference without requiring actual image inputs, thus maintaining both efficiency and accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The classification model serves itself by learning to identify visual text characteristics from training data without external image guidance during inference. The model internally captures visual text properties during training, allowing it to autonomously classify text accurately without needing actual image inputs during operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20240427995A1Identifying visual text using vision-language models
Publication Date: 2024.12.26 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

A method includes receiving a text to be used for generating an image. The method further includes determining whether the text is a visual text using a machine learning model trained to classify whether an input text is non-visual text or visual text. The method further includes responsive to determining that the text is a visual text, generating the image using a second machine learning model based on the text. The method further includes displaying the image and the text.