Summary of Label-free Neural Semantic Image Synthesis, by Jiayi Wang et al.
Label-free Neural Semantic Image Synthesis
by Jiayi Wang, Kevin Alexander Laube, Yumeng Li, Jan Hendrik Metzen, Shin-I Cheng, Julio Borges, Anna Khoreva
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Jul 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 The proposed method, neural semantic image synthesis, integrates spatial conditioning to control large text-to-image diffusion models without requiring manual annotations or semantically ambiguous inputs. This label-free approach uses neural layouts from pre-trained foundation models as conditioning inputs, providing rich descriptions of the desired image with both semantics and detailed geometry. The experimental results show that the synthesized images achieve similar or superior pixel-level alignment compared to using semantic label maps, while also capturing better semantics, instance separation, and object orientation than other label-free options. Additionally, the generated images can effectively augment real data for training various perception tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way of controlling text-to-image models is proposed, which uses neural layouts to describe what an image should look like. This method doesn’t need people to manually annotate the images or use special features that are hard to understand. The results show that this approach can create images that are as good or even better than those made with manual annotations. These synthesized images can also help train computers to recognize objects and scenes. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Image synthesis * Semantics
