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Elite: Encoding Visual Concepts into Textual Embeddings for Text-to-Image (arxiv.org)
1 point by jasondavies on Mar 8, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Instead of tuning the image generator on each object, a network turns one photo into words for prompts, with extra words stripping the background and image details filling in texture. It copies custom objects faithfully and stays editable, far faster than that tuning approach.

Abstract · ELITE: Encoding Visual Concepts into Textual Embeddings for Customized Text-to-Image Generation

In addition to the unprecedented ability in imaginary creation, large text-to-image models are expected to take customized concepts in image generation. Existing works generally learn such concepts in an optimization-based manner, yet bringing excessive computation or memory burden. In this paper, we instead propose a learning-based encoder, which consists of a global and a local mapping networks for fast and accurate customized text-to-image generation. In specific, the global mapping network projects the hierarchical features of a given image into multiple new words in the textual word embedding space, i.e., one primary word for well-editable concept and other auxiliary words to exclude irrelevant disturbances (e.g., background). In the meantime, a local mapping network injects the encoded patch features into cross attention layers to provide omitted details, without sacrificing the editability of primary concepts. We compare our method with existing optimization-based approaches on a variety of user-defined concepts, and demonstrate that our method enables high-fidelity inversion and more robust editability with a significantly faster encoding process. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/csyxwei/ELITE.

Yuxiang Wei, Yabo Zhang, Zhilong Ji, Jinfeng Bai, Lei Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo
arXiv:2302.13848 · cs.CV · submitted Feb 27, 2023 · updated Aug 18, 2023
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted by ICCV 2023, oral presentation. Code: https://github.com/csyxwei/ELITE

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