August 29, 2023

CLIP-guided StyleGAN Inversion for Text-driven Real Image Editing

Ahmet Canberk Baykal, Abdul Basit Anees, Duygu Ceylan, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem and Deniz Yuret. Aug 29, 2023. ACM Transactions On Graphics (TOG), vol 42, issue 5, article no:172, pp 1--18. Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 in Sydney, Australia, Dec 12-15, 2023. (PDF, arXiv:2307.08397, Demo video).

Abstract: Researchers have recently begun exploring the use of StyleGAN-based models for real image editing. One particularly interesting application is using natural language descriptions to guide the editing process. Existing approaches for editing images using language either resort to instance-level latent code optimization or map predefined text prompts to some editing directions in the latent space. However, these approaches have inherent limitations. The former is not very efficient, while the latter often struggles to effectively handle multi-attribute changes. To address these weaknesses, we present CLIPInverter, a new text-driven image editing approach that is able to efficiently and reliably perform multi-attribute changes. The core of our method is the use of novel, lightweight text-conditioned adapter layers integrated into pretrained GAN-inversion networks. We demonstrate that by conditioning the initial inversion step on the CLIP embedding of the target description, we are able to obtain more successful edit directions. Additionally, we use a CLIP-guided refinement step to make corrections in the resulting residual latent codes, which further improves the alignment with the text prompt. Our method outperforms competing approaches in terms of manipulation accuracy and photo-realism on various domains including human faces, cats, and birds, as shown by our qualitative and quantitative results.


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