JourneyDB: A Benchmark for Generative Image Understanding
Authors: name: Junting Pan, name: Keqiang Sun, name: Yuying Ge, name: Hao Li, name: Haodong Duan, name: Xiaoshi Wu, name: Renrui Zhang, name: Aojun Zhou, name: Zipeng Qin, name: Yi Wang, name: Jifeng Dai, name: Yu Qiao, name: Hongsheng Li

While recent advancements in vision-language models have revolutionized
multi-modal understanding, it remains unclear whether they possess the
capabilities of comprehending the generated images. Compared to real data,
synthetic images exhibit a higher degree of diversity in both content and
style, for which there are significant difficulties for the models to fully
apprehend. To this end, we present a large-scale dataset, JourneyDB, for
multi-modal visual understanding in generative images. Our curated dataset
covers 4 million diverse and high-quality generated images paired with the text
prompts used to produce them. We further design 4 benchmarks to quantify the
performance of generated image understanding in terms of both content and style
interpretation. These benchmarks include prompt inversion, style retrieval,
image captioning and visual question answering. Lastly, we assess the
performance of current state-of-the-art multi-modal models when applied to
JourneyDB, and provide an in-depth analysis of their strengths and limitations
in generated content understanding. We hope the proposed dataset and benchmarks
will facilitate the research in the field of generative content understanding.
The dataset will be available on https://journeydb.github.io.