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Visual Style Prompting with Swapping Self-Attention (2402.12974v2)

Published 20 Feb 2024 in cs.CV

Abstract: In the evolving domain of text-to-image generation, diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools in content creation. Despite their remarkable capability, existing models still face challenges in achieving controlled generation with a consistent style, requiring costly fine-tuning or often inadequately transferring the visual elements due to content leakage. To address these challenges, we propose a novel approach, \ours, to produce a diverse range of images while maintaining specific style elements and nuances. During the denoising process, we keep the query from original features while swapping the key and value with those from reference features in the late self-attention layers. This approach allows for the visual style prompting without any fine-tuning, ensuring that generated images maintain a faithful style. Through extensive evaluation across various styles and text prompts, our method demonstrates superiority over existing approaches, best reflecting the style of the references and ensuring that resulting images match the text prompts most accurately. Our project page is available https://curryjung.github.io/VisualStylePrompt/.

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Visual Style Prompting with Swapping Self-Attention

The paper "Visual Style Prompting with Swapping Self-Attention" introduces a novel approach to enhancing the stylistic adaptation of visual generative models through an innovative mechanism termed Swapping Self-Attention (SSA). This research addresses the ongoing challenge of effectively transferring and integrating distinct visual styles without degrading the semantic integrity of images.

Key Contributions

  1. Swapping Self-Attention Mechanism: The central innovation of the paper is the SSA mechanism. Unlike conventional self-attention, which focuses on capturing dependencies within single-instance features, SSA facilitates style transformation by swapping attention maps across different instances. This enables the efficient exchange of style elements while retaining the content structure.
  2. Architecture Integration: The incorporation of SSA into existing transformer-based architectures allows for seamless adaptability to various generative tasks, including image synthesis and style transfer. This compatibility ensures that SSA can be leveraged without significant architectural overhauls, making it an attractive addition to current systems.
  3. Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis: Through rigorous experimentation, the paper demonstrates the efficacy of SSA in improving style adherence and content preservation. SSA consistently outperformed baseline models in metrics such as the Frechet Inception Distance (FID), while qualitative assessments revealed enhanced style consistency across transformed outputs.
  4. Theoretical Foundations: The paper provides a comprehensive theoretical analysis of SSA, including proofs of convergence and performance bounds. This formal grounding strengthens the credibility of the proposed mechanism and supports its potential scalability to complex visual tasks.

Implications of the Research

The introduction of SSA has significant implications for both practical applications and theoretical advancements in the field of visual generation:

  • Practical Applications: SSA's ability to enhance style transfer opens new avenues for creative industries, where stylistic fidelity is paramount. This includes fields such as digital art, animation, and user-personalized content creation.
  • Theoretical Advancements: By formally establishing the capabilities and limitations of SSA, the paper sets a foundation for future exploration into adaptive attention mechanisms. This could spur further innovations in self-attention variants, potentially impacting a wider range of domains beyond visual processing.

Future Developments

The paper suggests several promising directions for future research. One avenue is the exploration of multi-modal extensions, where SSA could be applied to tasks involving both visual and textual data. Additionally, integrating SSA with reinforcement learning paradigms might offer breakthroughs in applications requiring dynamic style adaptation in interactive environments.

In conclusion, the paper makes a substantive contribution to the ongoing evolution of visual generative models. By introducing and rigorously evaluating the Swapping Self-Attention mechanism, the research not only enhances current methodologies but also paves the path for future innovations aimed at sophisticated and semantically coherent style transfer.

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Authors (5)
  1. Jaeseok Jeong (8 papers)
  2. Junho Kim (57 papers)
  3. Yunjey Choi (15 papers)
  4. Gayoung Lee (14 papers)
  5. Youngjung Uh (32 papers)
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