Implicit and Explicit Language Guidance for Diffusion-based Visual Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07600v3
• Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:34:34 GMT
• Title: Implicit and Explicit Language Guidance for Diffusion-based Visual Perception
• Authors: Hefeng Wang, Jiale Cao, Jin Xie, Aiping Yang, Yanwei Pang,
• Abstract summary: Text-to-image diffusion models can generate high-quality images with rich texture and reasonable structure under different text prompts. We propose an implicit and explicit language guidance framework for diffusion-based perception, named IEDP. Our IEDP achieves promising performance on two typical perception tasks, including semantic segmentation and depth estimation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models have shown powerful ability on conditional image synthesis. With large-scale vision-language pre-training, diffusion models are able to generate high-quality images with rich texture and reasonable structure under different text prompts. However, it is an open problem to adapt the pre-trained diffusion model for visual perception. In this paper, we propose an implicit and explicit language guidance framework for diffusion-based perception, named IEDP. Our IEDP comprises an implicit language guidance branch and an explicit language guidance branch. The implicit branch employs frozen CLIP image encoder to directly generate implicit text embeddings that are fed to diffusion model, without using explicit text prompts. The explicit branch utilizes the ground-truth labels of corresponding images as text prompts to condition feature extraction of diffusion model. During training, we jointly train diffusion model by sharing the model weights of these two branches. As a result, implicit and explicit branches can jointly guide feature learning. During inference, we only employ implicit branch for final prediction, which does not require any ground-truth labels. Experiments are performed on two typical perception tasks, including semantic segmentation and depth estimation. Our IEDP achieves promising performance on both tasks. For semantic segmentation, our IEDP has the mIoU$^\text{ss}$ score of 55.9% on AD20K validation set, which outperforms the baseline method VPD by 2.2%. For depth estimation, our IEDP outperforms the baseline method VPD with a relative gain of 11.0%.

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