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Keep Drawing It: Iterative language-based image generation and editing (arxiv.org)
2 points by pplonski86 on Nov 30, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A picture generator that keeps drawing: each new instruction joins the past ones, and it edits the picture it already made instead of starting over. Unlike tools that make one picture at once, it can build backgrounds, add objects, and tweak what's there.

Abstract · Tell, Draw, and Repeat: Generating and Modifying Images Based on Continual Linguistic Instruction

Conditional text-to-image generation is an active area of research, with many possible applications. Existing research has primarily focused on generating a single image from available conditioning information in one step. One practical extension beyond one-step generation is a system that generates an image iteratively, conditioned on ongoing linguistic input or feedback. This is significantly more challenging than one-step generation tasks, as such a system must understand the contents of its generated images with respect to the feedback history, the current feedback, as well as the interactions among concepts present in the feedback history. In this work, we present a recurrent image generation model which takes into account both the generated output up to the current step as well as all past instructions for generation. We show that our model is able to generate the background, add new objects, and apply simple transformations to existing objects. We believe our approach is an important step toward interactive generation. Code and data is available at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/generative-neural-visual-artist-geneva/ .

Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Shikhar Sharma, Hannes Schulz, Devon Hjelm, Layla El Asri, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Yoshua Bengio, Graham W. Taylor
arXiv:1811.09845 · cs.CV · submitted Nov 24, 2018 · updated Sep 23, 2019
abstract · pdf · Accepted at ICCV 2019

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