Paper ID: 2312.02149

Generative Powers of Ten

Xiaojuan Wang, Janne Kontkanen, Brian Curless, Steve Seitz, Ira Kemelmacher, Ben Mildenhall, Pratul Srinivasan, Dor Verbin, Aleksander Holynski

We present a method that uses a text-to-image model to generate consistent content across multiple image scales, enabling extreme semantic zooms into a scene, e.g., ranging from a wide-angle landscape view of a forest to a macro shot of an insect sitting on one of the tree branches. We achieve this through a joint multi-scale diffusion sampling approach that encourages consistency across different scales while preserving the integrity of each individual sampling process. Since each generated scale is guided by a different text prompt, our method enables deeper levels of zoom than traditional super-resolution methods that may struggle to create new contextual structure at vastly different scales. We compare our method qualitatively with alternative techniques in image super-resolution and outpainting, and show that our method is most effective at generating consistent multi-scale content.

Submitted: Dec 4, 2023