Summary of From Bird’s-eye to Street View: Crafting Diverse and Condition-aligned Images with Latent Diffusion Model, by Xiaojie Xu et al.
From Bird’s-Eye to Street View: Crafting Diverse and Condition-Aligned Images with Latent Diffusion Model
by Xiaojie Xu, Tianshuo Xu, Fulong Ma, Yingcong Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Sep 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 A novel approach is introduced for generating multi-view street images from Bird’s-Eye View (BEV) maps, which is crucial for autonomous driving applications. The proposed method consists of two stages: Neural View Transformation and Street Image Generation. The first stage learns the shape correspondence between BEV and perspective views to produce aligned semantic segmentation maps. Then, these segmentations are used as a condition to guide a fine-tuned latent diffusion model, ensuring view and style consistency. The fine-tuning process leverages large pretrained diffusion models within traffic contexts, resulting in diverse and condition-coherent street view images. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re driving on the highway, and you need to understand what’s happening on every side of your car. That’s where Bird’s-Eye View (BEV) maps come in – they help us see everything from above. But sometimes we need more than just a map; we need actual pictures of the road ahead. This paper talks about how to create those images, using special computer models that can make pictures based on what we know about the road. It’s like taking a picture of the road, but instead of using a camera, we’re using computers and math. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion model * Fine tuning * Image generation * Semantic segmentation
