Summary of Masked Generative Story Transformer with Character Guidance and Caption Augmentation, by Christos Papadimitriou et al.
Masked Generative Story Transformer with Character Guidance and Caption Augmentation
by Christos Papadimitriou, Giorgos Filandrianos, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Stamou
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Mar 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 The proposed Story Visualization approach employs a parallel transformer-based method that relies on Cross-Attention with past and future captions to achieve consistency in generated image sequences. This innovative technique, combined with Character Guidance and caption-augmentation using a Large Language Model (LLM), yields state-of-the-art results on the Pororo-SV benchmark, outperforming previous methods while maintaining computational complexity. The approach’s effectiveness is validated by both quantitative metrics and a human survey. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Story Visualization is like creating a movie trailer from a script. It’s hard because you need to make sure each frame looks good and that they all fit together well. Some people use special memory tricks or model different parts of the scene separately. But this new approach uses a special kind of computer vision called parallel transformers, which helps keep track of what comes next in the story. They also have a technique called character guidance to focus on making sure characters look good and another method to make it harder for computers to get it wrong. This combination works really well and is better than previous methods at creating movie trailers. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cross attention » Large language model » Transformer
