Summary of Ildiff: Generate Transparent Animated Stickers by Implicit Layout Distillation, By Ting Zhang et al.

ILDiff: Generate Transparent Animated Stickers by Implicit Layout Distillation

by Ting Zhang, Zhiqiang Yuan, Yeshuang Zhu, Jinchao Zhang

First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Dec 2024

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Medium	GrooveSquid.com (original content)	Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new method for generating fine-grained animated transparency channels in high-quality animated stickers. The existing methods, including video matting and diffusion-based algorithms, are limited in their ability to deal with semi-open areas and lack consideration of temporal information. To address these limitations, the authors introduce an ILDiff method that uses implicit layout distillation to generate animated transparent channels. The proposed approach is tested on a newly created Transparent Animated Sticker Dataset (TASD) containing 0.32M high-quality samples. Experimental results demonstrate that ILDiff outperforms existing methods such as Matting Anything and Layer Diffusion in producing finer and smoother transparency channels.
Low	GrooveSquid.com (original content)	Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to solve a problem with generating animated stickers. The current methods aren’t good at dealing with certain parts of the sticker, like when something is partially covered. They also don’t consider how the animation will look over time. To fix this, they came up with a new way called ILDiff that uses a different approach to generate transparent channels in animations. They tested their method on a big dataset of stickers and found it works better than other methods.