Summary of Handiffuser: Text-to-image Generation with Realistic Hand Appearances, by Supreeth Narasimhaswamy et al.
HanDiffuser: Text-to-Image Generation With Realistic Hand Appearances
by Supreeth Narasimhaswamy, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Xiang Chen, Ishita Dasgupta, Saayan Mitra, Minh Hoai
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel text-to-image generative model called HanDiffuser that specializes in generating realistic human hands from textual prompts. The current state-of-the-art models struggle to produce natural-looking hands, often exhibiting irregular poses, shapes, or finger counts. To overcome these limitations, HanDiffuser incorporates hand embeddings into the generation process, leveraging a two-component architecture: Text-to-Hand-Params and Text-Guided Hand-Params-to-Image diffusion models. These components generate 3D hand shapes, joint-level finger positions, orientations, and articulations from input text prompts, leading to robust learning and reliable performance during inference. The authors conduct comprehensive quantitative and qualitative experiments, as well as user studies, to demonstrate the efficacy of HanDiffuser in producing high-quality images with realistic hands. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about creating computer-generated pictures of people’s hands that look very real. Right now, most computers have trouble making hand pictures that look natural, often getting things like finger count or hand shape wrong. To solve this problem, the authors created a new way to generate these images using words as prompts. Their method, called HanDiffuser, is special because it includes details about hands, such as how fingers move and bend. The authors tested their approach and showed that it can make very realistic pictures of hands. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generative model » Inference
