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GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation

17 Jan 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2301.07093archive 2025-07-28

Yuheng Li, Haotian Liu, Qingyang Wu, Fangzhou Mu, Jianwei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Chunyuan Li, Yong Jae Lee

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have made amazing advances. However, the status quo is to use text input alone, which can impede controllability. In this work, we propose GLIGEN, Grounded-Language-to-Image Generation, a novel approach that builds upon and extends the functionality of existing pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models by enabling them to also be conditioned on grounding inputs. To preserve the vast concept knowledge of the pre-trained model, we freeze all of its weights and inject the grounding information into new trainable layers via a gated mechanism. Our model achieves open-world grounded text2img generation with caption and bounding box condition inputs, and the grounding ability generalizes well to novel spatial configurations and concepts. GLIGEN's zero-shot performance on COCO and LVIS outperforms that of existing supervised layout-to-image baselines by a large margin.

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Conditional Text-to-Image SynthesisImage GenerationImage InpaintingLayout-to-Image GenerationText to Image GenerationText-to-Image Generation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Conditional Text-to-Image Synthesis COCO-MIG Gligen (zero-shot) instance success rate 0.30 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Conditional Text-to-Image Synthesis COCO-MIG Gligen (zero-shot) mIoU 0.27 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Layout-to-Image Generation LayoutBench-COCO - Combination GLIGEN AP 36.3 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Layout-to-Image Generation LayoutBench-COCO - Number GLIGEN AP 30.7 #3 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Layout-to-Image Generation LayoutBench-COCO - Position GLIGEN AP 38.9 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Layout-to-Image Generation LayoutBench-COCO - Size GLIGEN AP 33.3 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation COCO (Common Objects in Context) GLIGEN (fine-tuned, Detection + Caption data) FID 5.61 #4 of 69 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation COCO (Common Objects in Context) GLIGEN (fine-tuned, Detection data only) FID 5.82 #5 of 69 Archive leaderboard report
Text-to-Image Generation COCO (Common Objects in Context) GLIGEN (fine-tuned, Grounding data) FID 6.38 #9 of 69 Archive leaderboard report

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