LLMs Behind the Scenes: Enabling Narrative Scene Illustration
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| author | Roemmele, Melissa Chung, John Joon Young Kim, Taewook Sun, Yuqian Calderwood, Alex Kreminski, Max |
| author_facet | Roemmele, Melissa Chung, John Joon Young Kim, Taewook Sun, Yuqian Calderwood, Alex Kreminski, Max |
| contents | Generative AI has established the opportunity to readily transform content from one medium to another. This capability is especially powerful for storytelling, where visual illustrations can illuminate a story originally expressed in text. In this paper, we focus on the task of narrative scene illustration, which involves automatically generating an image depicting a scene in a story. Motivated by recent progress on text-to-image models, we consider a pipeline that uses LLMs as an interface for prompting text-to-image models to generate scene illustrations given raw story text. We apply variations of this pipeline to a prominent story corpus in order to synthesize illustrations for scenes in these stories. We conduct a human annotation task to obtain pairwise quality judgments for these illustrations. The outcome of this process is the SceneIllustrations dataset, which we release as a new resource for future work on cross-modal narrative transformation. Through our analysis of this dataset and experiments modeling illustration quality, we demonstrate that LLMs can effectively verbalize scene knowledge implicitly evoked by story text. Moreover, this capability is impactful for generating and evaluating illustrations. |
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| spellingShingle | LLMs Behind the Scenes: Enabling Narrative Scene Illustration Roemmele, Melissa Chung, John Joon Young Kim, Taewook Sun, Yuqian Calderwood, Alex Kreminski, Max Computation and Language Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Generative AI has established the opportunity to readily transform content from one medium to another. This capability is especially powerful for storytelling, where visual illustrations can illuminate a story originally expressed in text. In this paper, we focus on the task of narrative scene illustration, which involves automatically generating an image depicting a scene in a story. Motivated by recent progress on text-to-image models, we consider a pipeline that uses LLMs as an interface for prompting text-to-image models to generate scene illustrations given raw story text. We apply variations of this pipeline to a prominent story corpus in order to synthesize illustrations for scenes in these stories. We conduct a human annotation task to obtain pairwise quality judgments for these illustrations. The outcome of this process is the SceneIllustrations dataset, which we release as a new resource for future work on cross-modal narrative transformation. Through our analysis of this dataset and experiments modeling illustration quality, we demonstrate that LLMs can effectively verbalize scene knowledge implicitly evoked by story text. Moreover, this capability is impactful for generating and evaluating illustrations. |
| title | LLMs Behind the Scenes: Enabling Narrative Scene Illustration |
| topic | Computation and Language Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22940 |