Summary of Dreambeast: Distilling 3d Fantastical Animals with Part-aware Knowledge Transfer, by Runjia Li et al.
DreamBeast: Distilling 3D Fantastical Animals with Part-Aware Knowledge Transfer
by Runjia Li, Junlin Han, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Chunyi Sun, Zhaochong An, Zhongrui Gui, Shuyang Sun, Philip Torr, Tomas Jakab
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Graphics (cs.GR); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The novel method, DreamBeast, uses score distillation sampling (SDS) to generate 3D animal assets composed of distinct parts. Existing SDS methods struggle with this task due to limited understanding of part-level semantics in text-to-image diffusion models. DreamBeast overcomes this limitation through a novel part-aware knowledge transfer mechanism. The method efficiently extracts part-level knowledge from the Stable Diffusion 3 model and modulates it using multi-view diffusion for instant generation of Part-Affinity maps, which are then used to guide SDS. This results in high-quality generated 3D creatures with user-specified part compositions while reducing computational overhead. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary DreamBeast is a new way to create realistic animals made up of different parts. Right now, it’s hard for computers to understand what each part of an animal means. DreamBeast solves this problem by taking information from another computer model and using it to make the parts fit together just right. This makes it possible to quickly create 3D pictures of fantastical animals with specific body parts. The results are amazing and could be used in movies, games, or even real-life zoos! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Distillation » Semantics
