# The Steep Road to Happily Ever After: An Analysis of Current Visual Storytelling Models

## TL;DR

This paper surveys recent visual storytelling models, analyzes their errors and shortcomings, and offers recommendations to improve future research in this emerging field.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive error analysis of recent models and highlights key limitations, guiding future advancements in visual storytelling.

## Key findings

- Identification of common error types in current models
- Categorization of key shortcomings in visual storytelling approaches
- Recommendations for addressing limitations in future work

## Abstract

Visual storytelling is an intriguing and complex task that only recently entered the research arena. In this work, we survey relevant work to date, and conduct a thorough error analysis of three very recent approaches to visual storytelling. We categorize and provide examples of common types of errors, and identify key shortcomings in current work. Finally, we make recommendations for addressing these limitations in the future.