Summary of Make It Count: Text-to-image Generation with An Accurate Number Of Objects, by Lital Binyamin et al.
Make It Count: Text-to-Image Generation with an Accurate Number of Objects
by Lital Binyamin, Yoad Tewel, Hilit Segev, Eran Hirsch, Royi Rassin, Gal Chechik
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Graphics (cs.GR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper addresses a fundamental challenge in text-to-image generation: controlling the number of depicted objects using text prompts. Despite the success of diffusion models, generating object-correct counts is surprisingly hard due to the need to maintain separate identities for identical or overlapping objects and perform global computations during generation. The authors identify features within the diffusion model that can carry object identity information and use them to separate and count instances of objects during denoising. They also develop a model that predicts missing object shapes and locations based on existing ones, guiding denoising with correct object counts. The proposed approach, CountGen, outperforms existing baselines on two benchmark datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you want to generate an image with a specific number of objects, like cats or cars. This is hard because the computer needs to keep track of each individual object and make sure it doesn’t accidentally add extra ones. The authors of this paper found a way to solve this problem by identifying special features in the computer’s brain that help keep track of objects. They then use these features to separate and count the objects, making sure the correct number is included in the final image. This is important for applications like generating illustrations for children’s books or cooking recipes. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion model » Image generation
