Desigen: A Pipeline for Controllable Design Template Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09093v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:32:28 GMT
• Title: Desigen: A Pipeline for Controllable Design Template Generation
• Authors: Haohan Weng, Danqing Huang, Yu Qiao, Zheng Hu, Chin-Yew Lin, Tong Zhang, C. L. Philip Chen,
• Abstract summary: Desigen is an automatic template creation pipeline which generates background images as well as layout elements over the background. We propose two techniques to constrain the saliency distribution and reduce the attention weight in desired regions during the background generation process. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed pipeline generates high-quality templates comparable to human designers.
• Score: 69.51563467689795
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Templates serve as a good starting point to implement a design (e.g., banner, slide) but it takes great effort from designers to manually create. In this paper, we present Desigen, an automatic template creation pipeline which generates background images as well as harmonious layout elements over the background. Different from natural images, a background image should preserve enough non-salient space for the overlaying layout elements. To equip existing advanced diffusion-based models with stronger spatial control, we propose two simple but effective techniques to constrain the saliency distribution and reduce the attention weight in desired regions during the background generation process. Then conditioned on the background, we synthesize the layout with a Transformer-based autoregressive generator. To achieve a more harmonious composition, we propose an iterative inference strategy to adjust the synthesized background and layout in multiple rounds. We constructed a design dataset with more than 40k advertisement banners to verify our approach. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed pipeline generates high-quality templates comparable to human designers. More than a single-page design, we further show an application of presentation generation that outputs a set of theme-consistent slides. The data and code are available at https://whaohan.github.io/desigen.

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