PARASOL: Parametric Style Control for Diffusion Image Synthesis

Gemma Canet Tarrés, Dan Ruta, Tu Bui, John Collomosse; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024, pp. 2432-2442

We propose PARASOL a multi-modal synthesis model that enables disentangled parametric control of the visual style of the image by jointly conditioning synthesis on both content and a fine-grained visual style embedding. We train a latent diffusion model (LDM) using specific losses for each modality and adapt the classifer-free guidance for encouraging disentangled control over independent content and style modalities at inference time. We leverage auxiliary semantic and style-based search to create training triplets for supervision of the LDM ensuring complementarity of content and style cues. PARASOL shows promise for enabling nuanced control over visual style in diffusion models for image creation and stylization as well as generative search where text-based search results may be adapted to more closely match user intent by interpolating both content and style descriptors.