PLACE: Adaptive Layout-Semantic Fusion for Semantic Image Synthesis (CVPR 2024)
Zhengyao Lv
Yuxiang Wei
Wangmeng Zuo
Kwan-Yee K. Wong
[Paper]
[GitHub]

Abstract

Recent advancements in large-scale pre-trained text-to-image models have led to remarkable progress in semantic image synthesis. Nevertheless, synthesizing high-quality images with consistent semantics and layout remains a challenge. In t his paper, we propose the adaPtive LAyout-semantiC fusion modulE (PLACE) that harnesses pre-trained models to alleviate the aforementioned issues. Specifically, we first employ the layout control map to faithfully represent layouts in the feature space. Subsequently, we combine the layout and semantic features in a timestep-adaptive manner to synthesize images with realistic details. During fine-tuning, we propose the Semantic Alignment (SA) loss to further enhance layout alignment. Additionally, we introduce the Layout-Free Prior Preservation (LFP) loss, which leverages unlabeled data to maintain the priors of pre-trained models, thereby improving the visual quality and semantic consistency of synthesized images. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach performs favorably in terms of visual quality, semantic consistency, and layout alignment.


Overview

Overview of our method. (a) We utilize the layout control map calculated from semantic map and PLACE for layout control. During fine-tuning, we combine the LDM, SA, and LFP loss as optimization objective. (b) Calculation of the layout control map and details of the adaptive layout-semantic fusion module. Each vector in the Layout Control Map encodes all the semantic components in the reception field. The adaptive layout-semantic fusion module blends the layout and semantics feature in a timestep-adaptive way.


Results

Visual comparisons on ADE20K and COCO-Stuff

Visual comparisons for out-of-distribution synthesis



Paper and Supplementary Material

Zhengyao Lv, Yuxiang Wei, Wangmeng Zuo and Kwan-Yee K. Wong
PLACE: Adaptive Layout-Semantic Fusion for Semantic Image Synthesis
In CVPR, 2024.
(hosted on ArXiv)


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Acknowledgements

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