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Main Authors: Lai, Bolin, Dai, Xiaoliang, Chen, Lawrence, Pang, Guan, Rehg, James M., Liu, Miao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03849
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author Lai, Bolin
Dai, Xiaoliang
Chen, Lawrence
Pang, Guan
Rehg, James M.
Liu, Miao
author_facet Lai, Bolin
Dai, Xiaoliang
Chen, Lawrence
Pang, Guan
Rehg, James M.
Liu, Miao
contents Generating instructional images of human daily actions from an egocentric viewpoint serves as a key step towards efficient skill transfer. In this paper, we introduce a novel problem -- egocentric action frame generation. The goal is to synthesize an image depicting an action in the user's context (i.e., action frame) by conditioning on a user prompt and an input egocentric image. Notably, existing egocentric action datasets lack the detailed annotations that describe the execution of actions. Additionally, existing diffusion-based image manipulation models are sub-optimal in controlling the state transition of an action in egocentric image pixel space because of the domain gap. To this end, we propose to Learn EGOcentric (LEGO) action frame generation via visual instruction tuning. First, we introduce a prompt enhancement scheme to generate enriched action descriptions from a visual large language model (VLLM) by visual instruction tuning. Then we propose a novel method to leverage image and text embeddings from the VLLM as additional conditioning to improve the performance of a diffusion model. We validate our model on two egocentric datasets -- Ego4D and Epic-Kitchens. Our experiments show substantial improvement over prior image manipulation models in both quantitative and qualitative evaluation. We also conduct detailed ablation studies and analysis to provide insights in our method. More details of the dataset and code are available on the website (https://bolinlai.github.io/Lego_EgoActGen/).
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spellingShingle LEGO: Learning EGOcentric Action Frame Generation via Visual Instruction Tuning
Lai, Bolin
Dai, Xiaoliang
Chen, Lawrence
Pang, Guan
Rehg, James M.
Liu, Miao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generating instructional images of human daily actions from an egocentric viewpoint serves as a key step towards efficient skill transfer. In this paper, we introduce a novel problem -- egocentric action frame generation. The goal is to synthesize an image depicting an action in the user's context (i.e., action frame) by conditioning on a user prompt and an input egocentric image. Notably, existing egocentric action datasets lack the detailed annotations that describe the execution of actions. Additionally, existing diffusion-based image manipulation models are sub-optimal in controlling the state transition of an action in egocentric image pixel space because of the domain gap. To this end, we propose to Learn EGOcentric (LEGO) action frame generation via visual instruction tuning. First, we introduce a prompt enhancement scheme to generate enriched action descriptions from a visual large language model (VLLM) by visual instruction tuning. Then we propose a novel method to leverage image and text embeddings from the VLLM as additional conditioning to improve the performance of a diffusion model. We validate our model on two egocentric datasets -- Ego4D and Epic-Kitchens. Our experiments show substantial improvement over prior image manipulation models in both quantitative and qualitative evaluation. We also conduct detailed ablation studies and analysis to provide insights in our method. More details of the dataset and code are available on the website (https://bolinlai.github.io/Lego_EgoActGen/).
title LEGO: Learning EGOcentric Action Frame Generation via Visual Instruction Tuning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03849