AutoStudio: Crafting Consistent Subjects in Multi-turn Interactive Image Generation

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Model Architecture

Abstract

As cutting-edge Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models already excel at producing remarkable single images, an even more challenging task, i.e., multi-turn interactive image generation begins to attract the attention of related research communities. This task requires models to interact with users over multiple turns to generate a coherent sequence of images. However, since users may switch subjects frequently, current efforts struggle to maintain subject consistency while generating diverse images. To address this issue, we introduce a training-free multi-agent framework called AutoStudio. AutoStudio employs three agents based on large language models (LLMs) to handle interactions, along with a stable diffusion (SD) based agent for generating high-quality images. Specifically, AutoStudio consists of (i) a subject manager to interpret interaction dialogues and manage the context of each subject, (ii) a layout generator to generate fine-grained bounding boxes to control subject locations, (iii) a supervisor to provide suggestions for layout refinements, and (iv) a drawer to complete image generation. Furthermore, we introduce a Parallel-UNet to replace the original UNet in the drawer, which employs two parallel cross-attention modules for exploiting subject-aware features. We also introduce a subject-initialized generation method to better preserve small subjects. Our AutoStudio hereby can generate a sequence of multi-subject images interactively and consistently. Extensive experiments on the public CMIGBench benchmark and human evaluations show that AutoStudio maintains multi-subject consistency across multiple turns well, and it also raises the state-of-the-art performance by 13.65% in average Fréchet Inception Distance and 2.83% in average character-character similarity.

Previous work: TheaterGen

TODO

• Release huggingface demo
• Release SDXL version code
• Release SDv1.5 version code

🔥 News

• [2024.06.26] AutoStudio got 200🌟!
• [2024.06.22] Bugs are fixed, SDXL version released
• [2024.06.11] We have release the SDv1.5 code
• [2024.06.06] We have release the repository

🚀 Run

1. Prepare all the pretrained checkpoints of SD (strongly recommand dreamlike-art/dreamlike-anime-1.0) and IP-Adapter
2. Prepare /DETECT_SAMefficient_sam_s_gpu.jit and /DETECT_SAM/Grounding-DINO/groundingdino_swint_ogc.pth for groundingdino and efficientSAM
3. create the environment and run this code:

python run.py

👀 Contact Us

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected]. 🌟🌟🌟(I am an undergraduate student actively seeking opportunities for a Ph.D. program in 25 fall.)🌟🌟🌟

Citation

If you found this code helpful, please consider citing:

@article{cheng2024autostudio,
  title={AutoStudio: Crafting Consistent Subjects in Multi-turn Interactive Image Generation},
  author={Cheng, Junhao and Lu, Xi and Li, Hanhui and Zai, Khun Loun and Yin, Baiqiao and Cheng, Yuhao and Yan, Yiqiang and Liang, Xiaodan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01388},
  year={2024}
}