Dense Text-to-Image Generation with Attention Modulation

Yunji Kim, Jiyoung Lee, Jin-Hwa Kim, Jung-Woo Ha, Jun-Yan Zhu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023, pp. 7701-7711

Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a training-free method that adapts a pre-trained text-to-image model to handle such dense captions while offering control over the scene layout. We first analyze the relationship between generated images' layouts and the pre-trained model's intermediate attention maps. Next, we develop an attention modulation method that guides objects to appear in specific regions according to layout guidance. Without requiring additional fine-tuning or datasets, we improve image generation performance given dense captions regarding both automatic and human evaluation scores. In addition, we achieve similar-quality visual results with models specifically trained with layout conditions.