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Text-Conditional Contextualized Avatars for Zero-Shot Personalization (arxiv.org)
1 point by PaulHoule on Apr 18, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: A system places a user's 3D avatar into text-described scenes without training on that avatar, so millions of users can personalize images. It learns 3D body poses from everyday photos and beats the best text-to-pose tools at matching poses to prompts.

Abstract · Text-Conditional Contextualized Avatars For Zero-Shot Personalization

Recent large-scale text-to-image generation models have made significant improvements in the quality, realism, and diversity of the synthesized images and enable users to control the created content through language. However, the personalization aspect of these generative models is still challenging and under-explored. In this work, we propose a pipeline that enables personalization of image generation with avatars capturing a user's identity in a delightful way. Our pipeline is zero-shot, avatar texture and style agnostic, and does not require training on the avatar at all - it is scalable to millions of users who can generate a scene with their avatar. To render the avatar in a pose faithful to the given text prompt, we propose a novel text-to-3D pose diffusion model trained on a curated large-scale dataset of in-the-wild human poses improving the performance of the SOTA text-to-motion models significantly. We show, for the first time, how to leverage large-scale image datasets to learn human 3D pose parameters and overcome the limitations of motion capture datasets.

Samaneh Azadi, Thomas Hayes, Akbar Shah, Guan Pang, Devi Parikh, Sonal Gupta
arXiv:2304.07410 · cs.CV, cs.AI · submitted Apr 14, 2023
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This paper by Meta researchers demonstrates a system that would let users of a ‘metaverse’ platform create personalized avatars from text descriptions. It’s an interesting example of how generative A.I. mixes with virtual worlds by greatly speeding up ‘game development’.