The rapid progress in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has led to significant advancements in text-to-image synthesis. However, existing models often lack control over the generated images, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. This thesis proposes a novel approach to controllable text-to-image generation, enabling users to manipulate the controllable text 2 image generation thesis master​. We present a comprehensive review of existing methods, discuss the challenges and limitations, and introduce our proposed framework. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating high-quality, controllable images.
Introduction
The ability to generate images from text descriptions has numerous applications in computer vision, robotics, and human-computer interaction. Recent advancements in deep learning, particularly in GANs, have led to significant improvements in text-to-image synthesis. However, existing models often suffer from a lack of control over the generated images, making it challenging to apply them in real-world scenarios.
Controllable text-to-image generation aims to address this limitation by enabling users to manipulate the generated images according to their preferences. This can be achieved by incorporating additional control variables or conditions into the generation process. For instance, a user may want to generate an image of a car with a specific color, shape, or background.
Background and Related Work
Text-to-image synthesis has been an active area of research in computer vision and machine learning. Early approaches focused on using traditional computer vision techniques, such as template matching and image retrieval. However, these methods were limited in their ability to generate diverse and realistic images.
The introduction of GANs revolutionized the field of text-to-image synthesis. GANs consist of two neural networks: a generator and a discriminator. The generator takes a text description and a random noise vector as input and produces an image. The discriminator takes an image and a text description as input and predicts whether the image is real or fake. Through adversarial training, the generator learns to produce realistic images that fool the discriminator.
Several variants of GANs have been proposed for text-to-image synthesis, including Conditional GANs (CGANs), Auxiliary Classifier GANs (ACGANs), and StackGAN. CGANs incorporate the text description into the generator and discriminator, enabling the model to condition the generated image on the text. ACGANs introduce an auxiliary classifier to predict the text description from the generated image, improving the quality and diversity of the generated images. StackGAN uses a two-stage approach, where the first stage generates a low-resolution image and the second stage refines the image to produce a high-resolution output.
Despite the progress made in text-to-image synthesis, existing models often lack control over the generated images. To address this limitation, several approaches have been proposed, including:
- Conditional GANs with control variables: This approach incorporates additional control variables into the generator and discriminator, enabling users to manipulate the generated images.
- Text-to-image synthesis with attribute control: This approach uses attribute-based control to manipulate the generated images. For instance, a user can specify the color, shape, or texture of the generated image.
- Image-to-image translation with control: This approach uses image-to-image translation models to generate images with specific attributes or styles.
Proposed Framework
Our proposed framework for controllable text-to-image generation consists of three main components:
- Text Encoder: This component takes a text description as input and produces a compact representation of the text.
- Control Module: This component takes the text representation and additional control variables as input and produces a control signal.
- Generator: This component takes the control signal and a random noise vector as input and produces an image.
The control module is the key component of our framework, enabling users to manipulate the generated images according to their preferences. The control module uses a combination of attribute-based control and conditional GANs to produce the control signal.
Experimental Results
We evaluated our proposed framework on several benchmark datasets, including CUB, COCO, and CelebA. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating high-quality, controllable images.
Conclusion
In this thesis, we proposed a novel approach to controllable text-to-image generation. Our framework incorporates a control module that enables users to manipulate the generated images according to their preferences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating high-quality, controllable images. This work has the potential to impact various applications, including computer vision, robotics, and human-computer interaction.
Future Work
There are several directions for future work:
- Improving the control module: We plan to explore more advanced control modules that can handle complex attributes and styles.
- Incorporating additional control variables: We plan to incorporate additional control variables, such as user preferences and contextual information.
- Evaluating the framework on more datasets: We plan to evaluate our framework on more datasets and applications to demonstrate its generalizability and effectiveness.
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