AAAI 2024technical26 citations

Any-Size-Diffusion: Toward Efficient Text-Driven Synthesis for Any-Size HD Images

Qingping Zheng, Yuanfan Guo, Jiankang Deng, Jianhua Han, Ying Li, Songcen Xu, Hang Xu

Abstract

Stable diffusion, a generative model used in text-to-image synthesis, frequently encounters resolution-induced composition problems when generating images of varying sizes. This issue primarily stems from the model being trained on pairs of single-scale images and their corresponding text descriptions. Moreover, direct training on images of unlimited sizes is unfeasible, as it would require an immense number of text-image pairs and entail substantial computational expenses. To overcome these challenges, we propose a two-stage pipeline named Any-Size-Diffusion (ASD), designed to efficiently generate well-composed HD images of any size, while minimizing the need for high-memory GPU resources. Specifically, the initial stage, dubbed Any Ratio Adaptability Diffusion (ARAD), leverages a selected set of images with a restricted range of ratios to optimize the text-conditional diffusion model, thereby improving its ability to adjust composition to accommodate diverse image sizes. To support the creation of images at any desired size, we further introduce a technique called Fast Seamless Tiled Diffusion (FSTD) at the subsequent stage. This method allows for the rapid enlargement of the ASD output to any high-resolution size, avoiding seaming artifacts or memory overloads. Experimental results on the LAION-COCO and MM-CelebA-HQ benchmarks demonstrate that ASD can produce well-structured images of arbitrary sizes, cutting down the inference time by 2X compared to the traditional tiled algorithm. The source code is available at https://github.com/ProAirVerse/Any-Size-Diffusion.

BibTeX
@article{Zheng_Guo_Deng_Han_Li_Xu_Xu_2024, title={Any-Size-Diffusion: Toward Efficient Text-Driven Synthesis for Any-Size HD Images}, volume={38}, url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/28589}, DOI={10.1609/aaai.v38i7.28589}, abstractNote={Stable diffusion, a generative model used in text-to-image synthesis, frequently encounters resolution-induced composition problems when generating images of varying sizes. This issue primarily stems from the model being trained on pairs of single-scale images and their corresponding text descriptions. Moreover, direct training on images of unlimited sizes is unfeasible, as it would require an immense number of text-image pairs and entail substantial computational expenses. To overcome these challenges, we propose a two-stage pipeline named Any-Size-Diffusion (ASD), designed to efficiently generate well-composed HD images of any size, while minimizing the need for high-memory GPU resources. Specifically, the initial stage, dubbed Any Ratio Adaptability Diffusion (ARAD), leverages a selected set of images with a restricted range of ratios to optimize the text-conditional diffusion model, thereby improving its ability to adjust composition to accommodate diverse image sizes. To support the creation of images at any desired size, we further introduce a technique called Fast Seamless Tiled Diffusion (FSTD) at the subsequent stage. This method allows for the rapid enlargement of the ASD output to any high-resolution size, avoiding seaming artifacts or memory overloads. Experimental results on the LAION-COCO and MM-CelebA-HQ benchmarks demonstrate that ASD can produce well-structured images of arbitrary sizes, cutting down the inference time by 2X compared to the traditional tiled algorithm. The source code is available at https://github.com/ProAirVerse/Any-Size-Diffusion.}, number={7}, journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, author={Zheng, Qingping and Guo, Yuanfan and Deng, Jiankang and Han, Jianhua and Li, Ying and Xu, Songcen and Xu, Hang}, year={2024}, month={Mar.}, pages={7571-7578} }