Title
Text as Neural Operator:Image Manipulation by Text Instruction
Abstract
ABSTRACTn recent years, text-guided image manipulation has gained increasing attention in the multimedia and computer vision community. The input to conditional image generation has evolved from image-only to multimodality. In this paper, we study a setting that allows users to edit an image with multiple objects using complex text instructions to add, remove, or change the objects. The inputs of the task are multimodal including (1) a reference image and (2) an instruction in natural language that describes desired modifications to the image. We propose a GAN-based method to tackle this problem. The key idea is to treat text as neural operators to locally modify the image feature. We show that the proposed model performs favorably against recent strong baselines on three public datasets. Specifically, it generates images of greater fidelity and semantic relevance, and when used as a image query, leads to better retrieval performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3474085.3475343
International Multimedia Conference
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianhao Zhang100.34
Hung-Yu Tseng2816.56
Jiang Lu375537.16
Weilong Yang400.68
Honglak Lee56247398.39
Irfan A. Essa64876580.85