Not All Image Regions Matter: Masked Vector Quantization for Autoregressive Image Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13607v1
• Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 02:15:53 GMT
• Title: Not All Image Regions Matter: Masked Vector Quantization for Autoregressive Image Generation
• Authors: Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Quan Wang, Yongdong Zhang
• Abstract summary: Existing autoregressive models follow the two-stage generation paradigm that first learns a codebook in the latent space for image reconstruction and then completes the image generation autoregressively based on the learned codebook. We propose a novel two-stage framework, which consists of Masked Quantization VAE (MQ-VAE) Stack model from modeling redundancy.
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• Abstract: Existing autoregressive models follow the two-stage generation paradigm that first learns a codebook in the latent space for image reconstruction and then completes the image generation autoregressively based on the learned codebook. However, existing codebook learning simply models all local region information of images without distinguishing their different perceptual importance, which brings redundancy in the learned codebook that not only limits the next stage's autoregressive model's ability to model important structure but also results in high training cost and slow generation speed. In this study, we borrow the idea of importance perception from classical image coding theory and propose a novel two-stage framework, which consists of Masked Quantization VAE (MQ-VAE) and Stackformer, to relieve the model from modeling redundancy. Specifically, MQ-VAE incorporates an adaptive mask module for masking redundant region features before quantization and an adaptive de-mask module for recovering the original grid image feature map to faithfully reconstruct the original images after quantization. Then, Stackformer learns to predict the combination of the next code and its position in the feature map. Comprehensive experiments on various image generation validate our effectiveness and efficiency. Code will be released at https://github.com/CrossmodalGroup/MaskedVectorQuantization.

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