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# CSE5519 Advances in Computer Vision (Topic D: 2021 and before: Image and Video Generation)
## High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models.
[link to the paper](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/papers/Rombach_High-Resolution_Image_Synthesis_With_Latent_Diffusion_Models_CVPR_2022_paper.pdf)
Image synthesis in high resolution.
### Novelty in Latent Diffusion Models
#### Transformer encoder for LDMs
use cross-attention to integrate the text embedding into the latent space.
> [!TIP]
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> How are the transformer encoder and decoder embedded in UNet? How does the implementation go? How does the cross-attention help improve the image generation?
### On lecture new takes
#### Variational Autoencoder (VAE)
- Map input data into a probabilistic latent space and then reconstruct back the original data.
- Probabilistic latent space allows model to operate on smoother latent space from which we can sample.
- Each sample is mapped to a gaussian distribution in the latent space.
- The exact posterior is not known. We use a gaussian prior to approximate the posterior.
Drawbacks:
- Lose high-frequency information.
- Joint latent space is not usually gaussian.
#### Diffusion models:
Stacks of learnable VAE decoders.
#### Latent Diffusion Models (Stable diffusion)
Ok, that's the name I recognize.
Vanilla diffusion models operates on pixel space is expensive.
Perform diffusion process in latent space.
FIrst train a powerful VAE to encode data. Then do diffusion on these VAE latent codes. Then decode the latent space to get the image using VAE decoder.
#### VAE training
Semantic compression: LDM
Perceptual compression: Autoencoder+GAN
#### Limitations
Lack of contextual understanding.