Composing Parts for Expressive Object Generation
This addresses the need for more precise control in image generation for artists and designers, though it is an incremental improvement over existing diffusion models.
The paper tackles the problem of fine-grained part-level control in text-to-image generation, where existing models like Stable Diffusion fail to handle additional attribute details without altering the base image or ignoring them, and introduces PartComposer, a training-free method that enables image generation based on part-level attributes, allowing artists to combine distinctive object parts for novel compositions.
Image composition and generation are processes where the artists need control over various parts of the generated images. However, the current state-of-the-art generation models, like Stable Diffusion, cannot handle fine-grained part-level attributes in the text prompts. Specifically, when additional attribute details are added to the base text prompt, these text-to-image models either generate an image vastly different from the image generated from the base prompt or ignore the attribute details. To mitigate these issues, we introduce PartComposer, a training-free method that enables image generation based on fine-grained part-level attributes specified for objects in the base text prompt. This allows more control for artists and enables novel object compositions by combining distinctive object parts. PartComposer first localizes object parts by denoising the object region from a specific diffusion process. This enables each part token to be localized to the right region. After obtaining part masks, we run a localized diffusion process in each part region based on fine-grained part attributes and combine them to produce the final image. All stages of PartComposer are based on repurposing a pre-trained diffusion model, which enables it to generalize across domains. We demonstrate the effectiveness of part-level control provided by PartComposer through qualitative visual examples and quantitative comparisons with contemporary baselines.