Marigold: Affordable Adaptation of Diffusion-Based Image Generators for Image Analysis

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Autori principali: Ke, Bingxin, Qu, Kevin, Wang, Tianfu, Metzger, Nando, Huang, Shengyu, Li, Bo, Obukhov, Anton, Schindler, Konrad
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author Ke, Bingxin
Qu, Kevin
Wang, Tianfu
Metzger, Nando
Huang, Shengyu
Li, Bo
Obukhov, Anton
Schindler, Konrad
author_facet Ke, Bingxin
Qu, Kevin
Wang, Tianfu
Metzger, Nando
Huang, Shengyu
Li, Bo
Obukhov, Anton
Schindler, Konrad
contents The success of deep learning in computer vision over the past decade has hinged on large labeled datasets and strong pretrained models. In data-scarce settings, the quality of these pretrained models becomes crucial for effective transfer learning. Image classification and self-supervised learning have traditionally been the primary methods for pretraining CNNs and transformer-based architectures. Recently, the rise of text-to-image generative models, particularly those using denoising diffusion in a latent space, has introduced a new class of foundational models trained on massive, captioned image datasets. These models' ability to generate realistic images of unseen content suggests they possess a deep understanding of the visual world. In this work, we present Marigold, a family of conditional generative models and a fine-tuning protocol that extracts the knowledge from pretrained latent diffusion models like Stable Diffusion and adapts them for dense image analysis tasks, including monocular depth estimation, surface normals prediction, and intrinsic decomposition. Marigold requires minimal modification of the pre-trained latent diffusion model's architecture, trains with small synthetic datasets on a single GPU over a few days, and demonstrates state-of-the-art zero-shot generalization. Project page: https://marigoldcomputervision.github.io
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spellingShingle Marigold: Affordable Adaptation of Diffusion-Based Image Generators for Image Analysis
Ke, Bingxin
Qu, Kevin
Wang, Tianfu
Metzger, Nando
Huang, Shengyu
Li, Bo
Obukhov, Anton
Schindler, Konrad
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The success of deep learning in computer vision over the past decade has hinged on large labeled datasets and strong pretrained models. In data-scarce settings, the quality of these pretrained models becomes crucial for effective transfer learning. Image classification and self-supervised learning have traditionally been the primary methods for pretraining CNNs and transformer-based architectures. Recently, the rise of text-to-image generative models, particularly those using denoising diffusion in a latent space, has introduced a new class of foundational models trained on massive, captioned image datasets. These models' ability to generate realistic images of unseen content suggests they possess a deep understanding of the visual world. In this work, we present Marigold, a family of conditional generative models and a fine-tuning protocol that extracts the knowledge from pretrained latent diffusion models like Stable Diffusion and adapts them for dense image analysis tasks, including monocular depth estimation, surface normals prediction, and intrinsic decomposition. Marigold requires minimal modification of the pre-trained latent diffusion model's architecture, trains with small synthetic datasets on a single GPU over a few days, and demonstrates state-of-the-art zero-shot generalization. Project page: https://marigoldcomputervision.github.io
title Marigold: Affordable Adaptation of Diffusion-Based Image Generators for Image Analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09358