ShapeShift: Towards Text-to-Shape Arrangement Synthesis with Content-Aware Geometric Constraints

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14720v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:48:58 GMT
• Title: ShapeShift: Towards Text-to-Shape Arrangement Synthesis with Content-Aware Geometric Constraints
• Authors: Vihaan Misra, Peter Schaldenbrand, Jean Oh,
• Abstract summary: ShapeShift is a text-guided image-to-image translation task that requires rearranging the input set of rigid shapes into non-overlapping configurations.<n>We introduce a content-aware collision resolution mechanism that applies minimal semantically coherent adjustments when overlaps occur.<n>Our approach yields interpretable compositions where spatial relationships clearly embody the textual prompt.
• Score: 13.2441524021269
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While diffusion-based models excel at generating photorealistic images from text, a more nuanced challenge emerges when constrained to using only a fixed set of rigid shapes, akin to solving tangram puzzles or arranging real-world objects to match semantic descriptions. We formalize this problem as shape-based image generation, a new text-guided image-to-image translation task that requires rearranging the input set of rigid shapes into non-overlapping configurations and visually communicating the target concept. Unlike pixel-manipulation approaches, our method, ShapeShift, explicitly parameterizes each shape within a differentiable vector graphics pipeline, iteratively optimizing placement and orientation through score distillation sampling from pretrained diffusion models. To preserve arrangement clarity, we introduce a content-aware collision resolution mechanism that applies minimal semantically coherent adjustments when overlaps occur, ensuring smooth convergence toward physically valid configurations. By bridging diffusion-based semantic guidance with explicit geometric constraints, our approach yields interpretable compositions where spatial relationships clearly embody the textual prompt. Extensive experiments demonstrate compelling results across diverse scenarios, with quantitative and qualitative advantages over alternative techniques.

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