Meta showed off an image generation tool called Make-A-Scene, which requires users to provide a text prompt as well as an initial sketch of what they want to create.
“Previous state-of-the-art AI systems that generated inspirational images used mostly textual description as input,” says Meta (Opens in a new window). “But text prompts like ‘picture of a zebra riding a bike’ generate images with compositions that can be hard to predict.”
The company says this could prevent someone from feeling the “strong sense of pride and ownership of the content” they asked the AI to create. Make-A-Scene should address this problem by giving people more control over what kind of art will be generated.
Remember the meme (Opens in a new window) about how drawing an owl can be broken down into two steps: drawing a few circles and then drawing the rest of the owl? Make-A-Scene effectively allows people to say “owl,” draw a few circles, and then watch the AI-based tool draw the rest of the owl.
Meta says this research is part of its “commitment to explore ways AI can enable creativity – whether that’s bringing your 2D sketches to life, using natural language among other modalities to create 3D objects, building entire virtual spaces or any other creative project.”
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The company links these efforts to the metaverse, of course, but it’s not hard to imagine social platforms like Facebook and Instagram benefiting from this research as well. People love to share their art; a tool like Make-A-Scene can give them more options to do just that.
Meta says it plans to present at Make-A-Scene at the ECCV 2022 conference (Opens in a new window) in Tel Aviv in October. More information about the research behind this prototype is available through a paper published (opens in a new window) in March. However, there is no word on when the public will be able to play with the tool.
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