Summary of Adversarial Supervision Makes Layout-to-image Diffusion Models Thrive, by Yumeng Li and Margret Keuper and Dan Zhang and Anna Khoreva
Adversarial Supervision Makes Layout-to-Image Diffusion Models Thrive
by Yumeng Li, Margret Keuper, Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to layout-to-image synthesis is proposed in this paper, which addresses the limitations of current models that struggle with editability and alignment. The authors integrate adversarial supervision into conventional training pipelines for L2I diffusion models (ALDM), using a segmentation-based discriminator to provide explicit feedback on pixel-level alignment between denoised images and input layouts. Additionally, a multistep unrolling strategy is introduced to encourage consistent adherence to input layouts over sampling steps. Experimental results demonstrate that ALDM enables faithful layout synthesis while allowing broad editability via text prompts. Furthermore, the approach shows promise for practical applications such as domain generalization of semantic segmentation models, achieving a significant improvement of ~12 mIoU points. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you can create realistic images from text descriptions! This paper makes it happen by improving the way computers generate images based on layouts and texts. Currently, this process isn’t very good at following the original layout or allowing for changes to the image via text prompts. The authors came up with a new way to train their computer models so that they can both follow the input layout closely and allow for easy edits using text. This is important because it could be used in real-life applications like improving computers’ ability to recognize objects in images. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Domain generalization * Image synthesis * Semantic segmentation
