GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation

Yuheng Li, Haotian Liu, Qingyang Wu, Fangzhou Mu, Jianwei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Chunyuan Li, Yong Jae Lee; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023, pp. 22511-22521

Abstract


Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have made amazing advances. However, the status quo is to use text input alone, which can impede controllability. In this work, we propose GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation, a novel approach that builds upon and extends the functionality of existing pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models by enabling them to also be conditioned on grounding inputs. To preserve the vast concept knowledge of the pre-trained model, we freeze all of its weights and inject the grounding information into new trainable layers via a gated mechanism. Our model achieves open-world grounded text2img generation with caption and bounding box condition inputs, and the grounding ability generalizes well to novel spatial configurations and concepts. GLIGEN's zero-shot performance on COCO and LVIS outperforms existing supervised layout-to-image baselines by a large margin.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Li_2023_CVPR, author = {Li, Yuheng and Liu, Haotian and Wu, Qingyang and Mu, Fangzhou and Yang, Jianwei and Gao, Jianfeng and Li, Chunyuan and Lee, Yong Jae}, title = {GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2023}, pages = {22511-22521} }