ElasticDiffusion: Training-free Arbitrary Size Image Generation through Global-Local Content Separation

Moayed Haji-Ali, Guha Balakrishnan, Vicente Ordonez; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 6603-6612

Diffusion models have revolutionized image generation in recent years yet they are still limited to a few sizes and aspect ratios. We propose ElasticDiffusion a novel training-free decoding method that enables pretrained text-to-image diffusion models to generate images with various sizes. ElasticDiffusion attempts to decouple the generation trajectory of a pretrained model into local and global signals. The local signal controls low-level pixel information and can be estimated on local patches while the global signal is used to maintain overall structural consistency and is estimated with a reference image. We test our method on CelebA-HQ (faces) and LAION-COCO (objects/indoor/outdoor scenes). Our experiments and qualitative results show superior image coherence quality across aspect ratios compared to MultiDiffusion and the standard decoding strategy of Stable Diffusion. Project Webpage: https://elasticdiffusion.github.io