DreamAnime: Learning style-identity textual disentanglement for anime and beyond

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

5-2024

Abstract

Text-to-image generation models have significantly broadened the horizons of creative expression through the power of natural language. However, navigating these models to generate unique concepts, alter their appearance, or reimagine them in unfamiliar roles presents an intricate challenge. For instance, how can we exploit language-guided models to transpose an anime character into a different art style, or envision a beloved character in a radically different setting or role? This paper unveils a novel approach named DreamAnime, designed to provide this level of creative freedom. Using a minimal set of 2-3 images of a user-specified concept such as an anime character or an art style, we teach our model to encapsulate its essence through novel "words" in the embedding space of a pre-existing text-to-image model. Crucially, we disentangle the concepts of style and identity into two separate "words", thus providing the ability to manipulate them independently. These distinct "words" can then be pieced together into natural language sentences, promoting an intuitive and personalized creative process. Empirical results suggest that this disentanglement into separate word embeddings successfully captures a broad range of unique and complex concepts, with each word focusing on style or identity as appropriate. Comparisons with existing methods illustrate DreamAnime's superior capacity to accurately interpret and recreate the desired concepts across various applications and tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/chnshx/DreamAnime.

Keywords

Data Models, Training, Task Analysis, Computational Modeling, Natural Languages, Visualization, Shape, Customization, Diffusion, Image Synthesis, Style Disentanglement

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

First Page

1

Last Page

12

ISSN

1077-2626

Identifier

10.1109/TVCG.2024.3397712

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3397712

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