Paper · arXiv 2504.17502
RefVNLI: Towards Scalable Evaluation of Subject-driven Text-to-image Generation
Aviv Slobodkin, Hagai Taitelbaum, Yonatan Bitton, Brian Gordon, Michal Sokolik, Nitzan Bitton Guetta, Almog Gueta, Royi Rassin, Itay Laish, Dani Lischinski, Idan Szpektor
RefVNLI, a novel metric, evaluates both textual alignment and subject preservation in subject-driven text-to-image generation, outperforming existing methods across various benchmarks and subject categories.
Abstract
Subject-driven text-to-image (T2I) generation aims to produce images that align with a given textual description, while preserving the visual identity from a referenced subject image. Despite its broad downstream applicability -- ranging from enhanced personalization in image generation to consistent character representation in video rendering -- progress in this field is limited by the lack of reliable automatic evaluation. Existing methods either assess only one aspect of the task (i.e., textual alignment or subject preservation), misalign with human judgments, or rely on costly API-based evaluation. To address this, we introduce RefVNLI, a cost-effective metric that evaluates both textual alignment and subject preservation in a single prediction. Trained on a large-scale dataset derived from video-reasoning benchmarks and image perturbations, RefVNLI outperforms or matches existing baselines across multiple benchmarks and subject categories (e.g., Animal, Object), achieving up to 6.4-point gains in textual alignment and 8.5-point gains in subject consistency. It also excels with lesser-known concepts, aligning with human preferences at over 87\% accuracy.