EmoGen: Emotional Image Content Generation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Authors: Jingyuan Yang, Jiawei Feng, Hui Huang

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation task where users can create visually astonishing images with high-quality. However exsiting text-to-image diffusion models are proficient in generating concrete concepts (dogs) but encounter challenges with more abstract ones (emotions). Several efforts have been made to modify image emotions with color and style adjustments facing limitations in effectively conveying emotions with fixed image contents. In this work we introduce Emotional Image Content Generation (EIGC) a new task to generate semantic-clear and emotion-faithful images given emotion categories. Specifically we propose an emotion space and construct a mapping network to align it with powerful Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) space providing a concrete interpretation of abstract emotions. Attribute loss and emotion confidence are further proposed to ensure the semantic diversity and emotion fidelity of the generated images. Our method outperforms the state-the-art text-to-image approaches both quantitatively and qualitatively where we derive three custom metrics i.e.emotion accuracy semantic clarity and semantic diversity. In addition to generation our method can help emotion understanding and inspire emotional art design. Project page: https://vcc.tech/research/2024/EmoGen.